(VOCABULARY)
1. Surfeit –
- Meaning: An excessive amount of something; To cause a feeling of disgust or revulsion in; To provide assuagement or palliation to
- Synonyms: assuage, calm, soothe, disgust, repel, revolt excess, oversupply, superabundance
- Antonyms: deficiency, insufficiency, thinness, boniness, emaciation
- Usage: Yet they were victims of a surfeit of unwarranted violence.
2. Residual –
- Meaning: Remaining after the greater part or quantity has gone ; The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed ;
- Synonyms: consequence, ramification, repercussion, lasting, lingering, abiding, enduring
- Antonyms: core, base, requisite, essential
- Usage: Indeed, residual elements of the public display of violence are evident even in the Raja’s case.
3. Flogged –
- Meaning: To have dispossessed someone of something ; to lash or strike repeated! y, especially with a long pliable instrument ; to work arduously in pursuit of an aim or goal
- Synonyms: strained, pushed, stole, pilfered, purloined, whipped, lashed, scourged
- Antonyms: guarded, protected, inoffensive
- Usage: The Tablighi Jamaat was mercilessly flogged, especially by certain people and sections of the electronic media, in order to profile Muslims adversely.
(ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION)
4. An annual calendar containing important dates and statistical information such as astronomical data and tide tables- Almanac
5. A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one-Allegory
(MISSPELT WORDS)
6. (A) Cynusure (B) Cinosure (C) Cynasure (D) Cynosure
7. (A) Narcisist (B) Narcessist (C) Nercissist (D) Narcissist
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
8. Be out in left field:
- Meaning: To be out in left field is not to know what’s going on. Taken from baseball, when youngsters assign less capable players to the outfield where the ball is less likely to be hit by a young player. In business, one might say, ‘Don’t ask the new manager; he’s out in left field and doesn’t know any answers yet.’
- Example: Sure, my aunt is really wacky and often out in left field, but I love her to pieces!
9. Beard the lion in his own den:
- Meaning: If you confront a powerful or dangerous rival on their territory, you are bearding the lion in his own den.
- Example: A risk very often doesn’t tum out well ‘ but if you don’t face it and beard the lion in his den, you will never achieve the success you truly desire.
