(VOCABULARY)
1. Unsavory –
- Definition: Disagreeable to taste, smell, or look at.
- Synonyms: Disreputable, Unpleasant, Disagreeable
- Antonyms: Agreeable, Appetizing, Delicious and Delightful
- Usage: They looked at the scanty, unsavoury portions of food doled out to them
2. Disillusioned –
- Definition: Disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed.
- Synonyms: Disenchanted, Disappointed, Downcast and Discouraged
- Antonyms: Trusting, Enthusiastic
- Usage: The minority groups were completely disillusioned with the party
3. Augur –
- Definition: ( of an event or circumstance) portend a good or bad outcome.
- Synonyms: Fortune teller, Crystal gazer, Clairvoyant, Psychic, Visionary,
- Antonyms: Warrant, Demonstrate, Establish, Prove,
- Usage: The end of the cold war seemed to augur well
4. Stature (Noun) –
- Definition: Importance or reputation gained by ability or achievement.
- Synonyms: Reputation, Celebrity, Renown and Acclaim
- Antonyms: Impotence, Inability and Inadequacy
- Usage: An architect of international stature
(ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION)
5. A number of soldiers- Regiment
6. A number of seals- Rookery
(MISSPELT WORDS)
7. (A) Anthropulogist (B) Anthropolugist (C) Anthropologist (D) Anthroplogisst
8. (A) Spectetors (B) Spectators (C) Spectaters (D) Specteters
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. Pull out all the stops
- Meaning – Doing everything you can to make something successful.
- Example – The deadline for the project is fast arriving; we have pulled out all the stops for timely completion.
