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1. Conundrum –
- Meaning: A confusing and difficult problem or question; A hidden problem or disadvantage in an apparently ideal situation
- Synonyms: puzzle, enigma, problem, mystery, hitch, snag, drawback
- Antonyms: confidence, simplicity, solution
- Usage: At the last GST Council meeting in June, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said the Council would convene again in July just to discuss the possible alternatives to deal with this particular conundrum
2. Manifested –
- Meaning: To have demonstrated to be true based on facts; To have expressed or conveyed one’s thoughts or feelings; to provoke or bring about; to reveal one’s true nature, especially unintentionally
- Synonyms: evoked, elicited, raised, exposed, revealed, disclosed
- Antonyms: disproved, challenged, contradicted, repressed, suppressed, withheld
- Usage: The protection is manifested mainly in the willingness of the public to cooperate with the drive against the disease by using masks and adopting social distancing in public.
3. Niggardliness –
- Meaning: an extreme unwillingness to spend money; excessive or inordinate desire of gain
- Synonyms : miserliness, parsimony, meanness, stinginess, grudgingness, thriftiness
- Antonyms- benevolence ,generosity ,extravagance, spending
- Usage: Not all of this necessarily reflects the niggardliness of the public health infrastructure in the richest parts of the country.
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4. A person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs – Martyr
5. Yearly celebration of a date or an event – Anniversary
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6. (A) Achivment (B) Achievment (C) Achivement (D) Achievement
7. (A) Irrelevant (B) Irelevant ( C) Irrealevant (D) Irrelevent
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
8. Beg the question:
- Meaning: – In philosophy “to beg the question” is to assume something to be true that has not yet been proved. I have seen the idiom also to mean that a question is crying out to be asked.
- Example: – Shopping now for a dress to wear to the ceremony is really begging the question-she hasn’t been invented yet.
