(VOCABULARY)
1. Relay –
- Meaning: Pass on, transmit; A short period ; A competition where the fastest wins
- Synonyms: communicate, broadcast, transfer, spell, stretch, course, race, sprint
- Antonyms: check, hold, keep, concealment, withholding
- Usage: It’s like a relay race in India, with each State and city taking its turn for a COVID 19 surge.
2. Proxy –
- Meaning: a person who is appointed to undertake the duties of a superior in the superior’s absence; The authority to represent someone else, especially in voting; An instruction, command, or role given to a person or group
- Synonyms: agent, deputy, representative, substitute
- Antonyms: permanent, real, being, entity
- Usage: The pandemic in the metros is a proxy for the devastating effects of most infectious diseases and inappropriate health system responses in urban areas.
3. Intricate –
- Meaning: Very complicated or detailed; Having a strange, curious or mysterious nature; Boring or severely lacking in interest; Being advanced in development
- Synonyms: complex, convoluted, strange, exotic, advanced, forward
- Antonyms: simple, plain, superficial, loose, primitive, backward
- Usage: Kerala has an intricate task of sustaining its track record of 0.43% of reported cases ending up in deaths.
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4. A critical judge of any art and craft- Connoisseur
5. A leader or orator who espouses the cause of the common people- Demagogue
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6. (A) Cuntemporaries (B) Contemporeries (C) Contemporaries (D) Cuntempuraries
7. (A) Clockroom (B) Cloakrome (C) Cluckroom (D) Cloakroom
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
8. Bridge the gap:
- Meaning: If you bridge the gap, you make a connection where there is a great difference.
- Example: I thought Senator Davis was working to bridge the gap between the parties on this controversial issue.
