(VOCABULARY)
1. Cessation –
- Meaning: the fact or process of ending or being brought to an end.
- Synonyms: end, ending, termination
- Antonyms: start, resumption, continuation
- Usage: “the cessation of hostilities”
2. Curb –
- Meaning: a check or restraint on something.
- Synonyms: restraint, restriction, check
- Antonyms: encouragement, freedom, inside
- Usage: “plans to introduce tougher curbs on insider dealing”
3. Emphasis –
- Meaning: special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
- Synonyms: prominence, importance, significance
- Antonyms: ignorance, incompetence, insignificance
- Usage: “they placed great emphasis on the individual’s freedom”
4. Humane
- Meaning: having or showing compassion or benevolence.
- Synonyms: compassionate, kind, kindly
- Antonyms: cruel, inhumane
- Usage: “regulations ensuring the humane treatment of animals”
(ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION)
5. Of the highest degree – Superlative
6. A piece of shelter for ships – Harbour
(MISSPELT WORDS)
7.(A) Protextion (B) Protecttion (C) Prottection (D) Protection
8. (A) Defilade (B) Defilede (C) Defelade (D) Difilade
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. By a hair’s breadth:
- Meaning: If a person escapes from some danger by a hair’s breadth, they only just managed to avoid it. The breadth is the thickness of a hair, so they probably feel somewhat lucky because the margin between success and what could easily have been failure was so close.
- Example: They’re just about to close the gates! It looks like we made the flight by a hair’s breadth.
