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1. Turncoat
- Meaning: One who turns against a previous affiliation or allegiance
- Synonyms: traitor, apostate, betrayer, defector, deserter, Judas, quisling, serpent,
- Antonyms: loyalist, patriot, defender, supporter
- Usage: I believe our great councillor before him would never have defected and become a turncoat.
2. Smother –
- Meaning: To refrain from openly expressing or displaying: To kill something by suffocating
- Synonyms: assuage(make little intense), stifle, repress, strangle, suppress, muffle, restrain, conceal
- Antonyms: accelerate, separate, unfasten, expedite, welcome
- Usage: Plastic toys, cigarette lighters, and derelict fishing gear smother the coral reefs and litter the island shores.
3. Grotesque –
- Meaning: Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted; causing fear or terror
- Synonyms: gnarled, mangled, mutilated, freaky, homely, deformed, distorted, unnatural, bizarre.
- Antonyms: attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bonnie, comely
- Usage: The masks are often grotesque, humorous or satirical and the dances can be noisy and boisterous.
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4. Showing a dislike of anything improper –Prim
5. A fourteen-line poem – Sonnet
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6. (A) Marchandise (B) Merchendise (C) Merchandies (D) Merchandise
7. (A) Buseness (B) Business (C) Bissiness (D) Busines
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8. Down in the dumps:
- Meaning: If someone’s down in the dumps, they are depressed.
- Example: Molly’s been moping around all week, and I have no idea why she’s so down in the dumps.
9. Down the drain:
- Meaning: If something goes down the drain, especially money or work, it is wasted or produces no results.
- Example: My father’s company is now going down the drain because of the incompetent new CEO.
