(VOCABULARY)
1. Plunge
- Definition: Jump or dive quickly and energetically.
- Synonyms: Hurl oneself, Throw oneself, Fling oneself, Launch oneself, Catapult oneself
- Antonyms: Ascent, Rise, Increase
- Usage: Former President has plunged the country into a political crisis.
2. Plummet
- Definition: Decrease rapidly in value or amount
- Synonyms: Plunge, Fall Headlong, Hurtle, Nosedive
- Antonyms: Ascend, Go up, steepen, grow,
- Usage: All this has come at a time of economic fragility, with a plummeting rupee, soaring unemployment and rising living costs.
3. Maneuver
- Definition: Move skillfully or carefully.
- Synonyms: Steer, Guide, Drive, Negotiate, Navigate
- Antonyms: Cessation, Ignorance
- Usage: His sudden and secret maneuver caught everyone, including senior politicians, completely unawares.
4. Clout
- Definition: Influence or power, especially in politics or business
- Synonyms: Influence, Power, Pull, Weight, Sway, Leverage .
- Antonyms: Helplessness, Impotence, Impotency, Powerlessness, Weakness
- Usage: The best forum to test political clout in a democracy is the legislature.
(WORD SUBSTITUTION)
5. The house or a box in which live pigeons or doves – Dovecot
6. The place where the animals are kept alive (ZOO) – Vivarium
(MISSPELT WORDS)
Find the correctly spelt word.
7. (A) Quarantine (B) Quarantyne (C) Quarrntyne (D) Quarantiene
8. (A) Chromatics Exam (B) Chrromatics (C) Crromatics (D) Chrometics Govt.
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. Buckle down
- Meaning – Doing some hard work with determination and full attention.
- Example – Getting through the exam for civil services is possible when you have buckled down yourself.
10. Flying start
- Meaning – Something that is immediately successful.
- Example – The film hit the box office with a flying start and collected the highest revenue on day 1.
