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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.
5. An image without objective reality – Hallucination
6. as social superiors – Snob
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7. (A) Riencarnation (B) Reincurnation (C) Reincarnation (D) Reincarenation
8. (A) Scatershot (B) Scatterssot (C) Scatturshot (D) Scattershot
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9. Accept a wooden nickel
- Meaning: To accept something that proves to be fraudulent or deceitful; to be swindled or conned. Primarily heard in US.
- Example: I’m done accepting wooden nickels-capricious women who say they love me, then get bored and decide I’m not worth their time.
10. Done to death:
- Meaning: If a joke or story has been done to death, it has been told so often that it has stopped being funny.
- Example: Ugh, Hollywood has done superhero movies to death.
