(VOCABULARY)
1. Confiscate –
- Definition: take or seize (someone’s property) with authority.
- Synonyms: impound, seize,, requisition
- Antonyms: return
- Usage: “the guards confiscated his camera”
2. Promulgate –
- Definition: Promote or make widely known (an idea or cause).
- Synonyms: Publicize, Spread, Communicate, Propagate
- Antonyms: Conceal, Hush (up), Silence, Suppress
- Usage: President Ram Nath Kovind has promulgated the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Ordinance.
3. Viable –
- Meaning: capable of working successfully; feasible.
- Synonyms: workable, feasible, practicable
- Antonyms: impracticable
- Usage: “the proposed investment was economically viable”
4. Subterfuge –
- Definition: Deceit used in order to achieve one’s goal.
- Synonyms: Trickery, Intrigue, Deviousness, Evasion, Deceit,
- Antonyms: Honesty, Openness
- Usage: He had to use subterfuge and bluff on many occasions.
(ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION)
5. To write under a different name – Pseudonym
6. Too willing to obey other people –Subservient
(MISSPELT WORDS)
7. (A) Accumulate (B) Acumulate (C) Accumoulate (D) Accumulaete
8. (A) Extrimaly (B) Extremaly (C) Extrimely (D) Extremely
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. As much use as a chocolate fire- guard:
- Meaning: A fire – guard is used in front of a fireplace for safety. A chocolate fire-guard is of no use. An alternative to ‘As much use as a chocolate teapot’.
- Example: Until the power comes back on, all those microwaveable meals we got are about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
10. Between the devil and the deep blue sea:
- Meaning: If you are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, you are in a dilemma; a difficult choice.
- Example: I was between the devil and the deep blue sea, for if I didn’t take out another loan – and go deeper into debt-I could not pay off the debts I already owed.
