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1. Defection –
- Meaning: the desertion of one’s country or cause in favour of an opposing one.
- Synonyms: desertion, absconding, decamping
- Antonyms: enough, faithfulness, harmony
- Usage: “his defection from the Labour Party”
2. Ambit –
- Meaning: the scope, extent, or bounds of something.
- Synonyms: scope, extent, bounds
- Antonyms: extreme, limitation, part
- Usage: “a full discussion of this complex issue was beyond the ambit of one book”
3. Untenable –
- Meaning: not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.
- Synonyms: indefensible, undefendable, unarguable
- Antonyms: tenable, defensible
- Usage: “this argument is clearly untenable”
4. Deterrent –
- Meaning: a thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something.
- Synonyms: disincentive, discouragement, dissuasion
- Antonyms: incentive, encouragement
- Usage: “cameras are a major deterrent to crime”
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5. A story in which animals or objects speak and give wholesome moral lessons – Fable
6. Act of injuring another’s reputation by any slanderous communication – Defamation
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7. (A) Respiration (B) Respirtion (C) Rispiration (D) Respirattion
8.(A) Proucrastination (B) Procrestination (C) Procreastination (D) Procrastination
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9. Bolt from the blue:
- Meaning: If something happens unexpectedly and suddenly, it is a bolt from the blue.
- Example: We always thought of Michael as a life-long bachelor, so it certainly was a bolt from the blue when he returned from his vacation sporting a wedding ring!
10. Blow your own horn:
- Meaning: If you blow your own horn, you boast about your achievements and abilities. (‘Blow your own trumpet’ is an alternative form.)
- Example: I don’t mean to blow my own horn, but this pasta sauce I made is quite delicious!
