(VOCABULARY)
1. Segregation –
- Meaning: the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.
- Synonyms: separation, setting apart, keeping apart
- Antonyms: integration, unification, coalescence, interflow
- Usage: “the segregation of pupils with learning difficulties”
2. Propriety –
- Meaning: conformity to conventionally accepted standards of behaviour or morals.
- Synonyms: decorum, respectability, decency
- Antonyms: impropriety, indecorum, indecorousness
- Usage: “he always behaved with the utmost propriety”
3. Spurt –
- Meaning: gush out in a sudden and forceful stream.
- Synonyms: squirt, shoot, spray
- Antonyms: continuity, peace, trickle
- Usage: “he cut his finger, and blood spurted over the sliced potatoes”
4.Abrogation –
- Meaning: the repeal or abolition of a law, right, or agreement.
- Synonyms: repudiation, revocation, repeal
- Antonyms: institution, introduction, establishment
- Usage: They have regarded its renewal and its abrogation with about equal anxiety.
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5. One who thinks or speaks too much of himself – Egoist
6. Having juicy of fleshy and thick tissue – Succulent
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7. (A) Grivous (B) Grevous (C) Grievous (D) Grievus
8. (A) Rheumatism (B) Rheumatizm (C) Reumatism (D) Rheumetizm
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. Actions speak louder than words:
Meaning: – This idiom means that what people actually do is more important than what they say-people can promise things but then fail to deliver.
Explanation: – He keeps saying he loves me, but actions speak louder than words.
10. Stabbed in the back:
Meaning: A betrayal of trust, an act of treachery, as in Voting against our bill at the last minute was a real stab in the back.
Example: I have done everything for her, but she left me because of that guy, she stabbed in my back.
