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1. scourge –
- Meaning: A cause of great distress or misfortune
- Synonyms: affliction bane curse plague misfortune pest torment
- Antonyms: blessing godsend benefit boon felicity
- Usage: That annoying, ugly, trick gold lamp that comes apart in the middle when you pick it up has been the scourge of my family for years
2. Raucous –
- Meaning: Strongly influencing later developments; Recognized for one’s experience and history in a particular field; famously and distinctively representative of its type;
- Synonyms: quintessential, archetypal, established, well known, iconic, Conclusive important, innovative, groundbreaking, imaginative
- Antonyms: unimportant, irrelevant, unimaginative, typical, unrecognised common, inconspicuous, uncelebrated
- Usage: The showering of petals, the raucous calls for adopting such measures of instant justice, and our pride in such police officers must still be vivid in our memory.
3. Apartheid –
- Meaning: Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior
- Synonyms: discrimination, separation
- Antonyms: integration, connection, contact, touch, liaison
- Usage: The background to this whole debate is the history of colonial and apartheid era land dispossession.
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4. The emblems or insignia of royalty-Regali
5. A person who acts against religion-Heretic
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6.(A) Tirmagant (B) Termigant (C) Termagent (D)Termagant
7. (A) Postmortum (B) Postmortim (C) Posmartem (D) Postmortem
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8.Be out in left field:
- Meaning: To be out in left field is not to know what’s going on. Taken from baseball, when youngsters assign less capable players to the out field where the ball is less likely to be hit by a young player. In business, one might say, Don’t ask the new manager, he’ s out in left field and doesn’t know any answers yet’
- Example: Sure, my aunt is really wacky and often out in left field, but I love her to pieces!
