(VOCABULARY)
1. Skirmishes –
- Meaning: a short argument.
- Synonyms: argument, quarrel, squabble
- Antonyms: agrees, harmonises, superimpose
- Usage: “there was a skirmish over the budget”
2. Protracted –
- Meaning: prolong.
- Synonyms: prolong, extend, extend the duration of
- Antonyms: curtail, shorten, detruncate
- Usage: “he had certainly taken his time, even protracting the process”
3. Thronging –
- Meaning: flock or be present in great numbers.
- Synonyms: rush, stream, flock
- Antonyms: dispersed, loose, open
- Usage: “tourists thronged to the picturesque village
4. Paradoxes –
- Meaning: a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true.
- Synonyms: contradiction, contradiction in terms, self-contradiction
- Antonyms: accuracy, certainty, correction
- Usage: “the uncertainty principle leads to all sorts of paradoxes, like the particles being in two places at once”
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5. A list of explanations of rare, technical or obsolete words – Glossary
6. A word or practice that has gone out of use – Obsolete
(MISSPELT WORDS)
7. (A) Meteculous (B) Meticuelous (C) Meticuluse (D) Meticulous
8. (A) Defimation (B) Defamation (C) Defametion (D) Defamasion
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. Axe to grind:
- Meaning: If you have an axe to grind with someone or about something, you have a grievance, resentment and you want to get revenge or sort it out. In American English, it is ‘ax’.
- Example: I think the boss has a bit of an axe to grind with you over the way the account was handled.
