(VOCABULARY)
1. Conscription –
- Definition: Compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
- Synonyms: Draftee, Inductee, Selectee
- Antonyms: Enlistee, Volunteer
- Usage: conscription was extended to married men.
2. Enunciate –
- Definition: Say or pronounce clearly.
- Synonyms: Pronounce, Articulate
- Antonyms: Falter, Grunt, Halt, Hesitate
- Usage: Enunciate your words, and then you won’t have to repeat them so often.
3. Trailing –
- Definition: draw or be drawn along behind someone or something.
- Synonyms: drag, sweep, be drawn, draw, stream
- Antonyms: guiding, leading, piloting, advancing
- Usage: “Alex trailed a hand through the clear water”
4. Imperative –
- Definition: of vital importance; crucial.
- Synonyms: vitally important, of vital importance, all-important
- Antonyms: unimportant, optional
- Usage: “immediate action was imperative”
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5. Determine the nature of disease – Diagnose
6. Soldiers who fight on horseback – Cavalry
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7. (A) Disappearence (B) Disapearance (C) Disapperance (D) Disappearance
8. (A) Ocasionally (B) Occasionaly (C) Occasionally (D) Occasionully
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9. After your own heart
- Meaning: Sharing one’s tastes or views.
- Example: A person after your own heart thinks the same way as you.
10. Beside yourself:
- Meaning: Overcome with worry, grief, or anger; distraught.
- Example: If you are beside yourself, you are extremely angry