(VOCABULARY)
1. Confiscate –
- Definition: take or seize (someone’s property)with authority.
- Synonyms: impound, seize, commandeer, requisition
- Antonyms: return
- Usage: “the guards confiscated his camera”
2. Promulgate –
- Definition: Promote or make widely known (an idea or cause).
- Synonyms: Publicize, Spread, Communicate, Propagate
- Antonyms: Conceal, Hush (up), Silence, Suppress
- Usage: President Ram Nath Kovind has promulgated the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Ordinance.
4. Subterfuge –
- Definition: Deceit used in order to achieve one’s goal.
- Synonyms: Trickery, Intrigue, Deviousness, Evasion, Deceit,
- Antonyms: Honesty, Openness
- Usage: He had to use subterfuge and bluff on many occasions.
5. Viable–
- Meaning: capable of working successfully; feasible.
- Synonyms: workable, feasible, practicable
- Antonyms: impracticable
- Usage: “the proposed investment was economically viable”
(WORD SUBSTITUTION)
6.To write under a different name:- Pseudonym
7. One who is out to destroy the Government:- Anarchist
(MISSPELT WORDS)
8. (A) Accumulate (B) Acumulate (C) Accumoulate (D) Accumulaete
9. (A) Extrimaly (B) Extremaly (C) Extrimely (D) Extremely
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
10. As much use as a chocolate fire – guard
- Meaning: A fire-guard is used in front of a fireplace for safety. A chocolate fire-guard is of no use. An alternative to ‘As much use as a chocolate teapot’.
- Example: Until the power comes back on, all those microwaveable meals we got are about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
