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1. Expertise –
- Meaning: expert skill or knowledge in particular field.
- Synonyms: skill, skillfulness, expertness, ability, astuteness
- Antonyms: incompetence, ineffectiveness, ineptitude, uselessness
- Usage: “Each member casts a ballot for the category of competition in their field of expertise.”
2. Overdue –
- Meaning: not having arrived, happened, or been done by the expected time.
- Synonyms: late, not on time, behind, schedule
- Antonyms: early, punctual, on time
- Usage: “All I’m saying is that we’re 7 years overdue for skinny ties and narrow lapels.”
3. Assertion –
- Meaning: a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief.
- Synonyms: Declaration, Contention, Statement
- Antonyms: Disavowal, Denial, Desertion
- Usage: “Imposing such a ban requires far more compelling logic than the assertion that
we should not play God”
4. Devastated-
- Meaning: destroy or ruin.
- Synonyms: destroy, ruin, leave in ruins
- Antonyms: fixed, repaired, sober
- Usage: “the city was devastated by a huge earthquake”
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5. A person in a vehicle or on horseback escorting another vehicle – Escort
6. Intentional destruction of racial groups -Genocide
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7. (A) Fulfilled (B) Fullfilled (C) Fulfiled (D) Fulfilled
8. (A) Superside (B) Superseed (C) Supersede (D) Superrsede
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9. Turn a blind eye:
- Meaning:- When people turn a blind eye, they deliberately ignore something, especially if people are doing something wrong.
- Explanation:- Whenever a girl turns a blind eye on your comments – it doesn’t mean that she started liking you.
