(VOCABULARY)
1. Brooked –
- Meaning: to consider or give serious or careful thought to ; To have tolerated
- Synonyms: entertained, considered, contemplated, tolerated, approved, beared
- Antonyms: abhorred, disfavored, disapproved
- Usage: Coming from an ordinary person, how can such a challenge ever be brooked?
2.Unwittingly –
- Meaning: In an accidental manner ; having no knowledge of a situation or fact ; lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgment
- Synonyms: innocently, naively, ingenuously, ignorantly, unconsciously, inadvertently, accidentally
- Antonyms: advisedly, knowingly, intentionally
- Usage: He unwittingly made the mistake of questioning the command of the local tyrant
3. Acrimonious –
- Meaning: angry and bitter.
- Synonyms: bitter, rancorous, caustic
- Antonyms: unbitter, affable, amicable
- Usage: “an acrimonious dispute about wages”
4. Are –
- Meaning: the appropriate or usual contents; Deficient in something needed or usual; Unquestionable or indisputable
- Synonyms: absent, abstracted, indisputable, genuine, incontrovertible
- Antonyms: covered, dressed, furnished filled
- Usage: The novel corona virus pandemic has laid bare the falsity of this image.
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5. The sound of Birds-Twitter
6. The theory or philosophy of law- Jurisprudence
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7. (A) Dectylology (B) Dactieology (C) Dicteolology (D) Dactylology
8. (A) Virtouso (B) Vertuoso (C) Vartuoso (D) Virtuoso
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. At each other’s throats:
- Meaning:- If people are at each other’s throats, they are fighting, arguing or competing ruthlessly.
- Example:- It was a very dramatic trial, with the prosecutor and the defense attorney constantly at each other’s throats.
10. Be true blue:
- Meaning:- If a person/object/situation is considered to be ‘true blue’, it is considered genuine.
- Example:- Loyal, faithful, as in You can count on her support; she’s true blue.
