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1. Echelon –
- Meaning: A level or rank in an organization, a profession, or society
- Synonyms: category, grouping, repute, quality, eminence
- Antonyms: insignificance, lowliness, unimportance
- Usage: For example, a friendly higher echelon may have interdicted the enemy formation we expected to see.
2. Eschew –
- Meaning: To shun or shy away from
- Synonyms: evade, shun, elude, body swerve, get out of, hedge, cheat, fudge
- Antonyms: conspicuous, embrace, face, keep, like, love, meet, indulge in
- Usage: Professionals don’t completely eschew the standard win and place bet, but their focus is overwhelmingly on the exotic bets, especially trifectas.
3. Immediacy –
- Meaning: feeling the quality of bringing one into direct and instant involvement with something, giving rise to a sense of urgency or excitement
- Synonyms: propinquity, vicinity, imminence, juxtaposition, vicinage, adjacency, closeness
- Antonyms: hindrance, rest, slowing, stoppage
- Usage: It’s that sense of immediacy and instant gratification that is part of the allure.
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4. A disease that affects a large number of people in an area at the same time – Epidemic
5. A shady fertile place in a desert – Oasis
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6. (A) Hypothisis (B) Hypothesis (C) Hypothessis (D) Hypothesiss
7. (A) Taburnacle (B) Tabernacle (C) Tabarnacle (D) Tabernecle
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8. Eat your heart out:
- Meaning: If someone tells you to eat your heart out, they are saying they are better than you at something.
- Example: I feel just awful for Mary-she’s been eating her heart out ever since she found out she was rejected by her top-choice school.
9. Egg on your face:
- Meaning: If someone has egg on their face, they are made to look foolish or embarrassed.
- Example: Sally was left with egg on her face after for getting the words to the song during her audition.
