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1. Sway –
- Meaning: control or influence (a person or course of action).
- Synonyms: Influence, Affect, Bias
- Antonyms: Powerlessness, Inability, Inefficiency
- Usage: “Apparently the object began to sway backwards and forwards as if it were searching for something.”
2. Brevity –
- Meaning: concise and exact use of words in writing or speech.
- Synonyms: conciseness, concision, succinctness
- Antonyms: long-windedness, verbosity, loquaciousness, garrulity
- Usage: “The most notorious woman in Colchester’s history is making a return to the town she razed to the ground.”
3. preordained –
- Meaning: Determined in advance; Involving divine foresight or providence
- Synonyms: fated, predetermined, destined, doomed, providential, divine
- Antonyms: avoidable, preventable, evadable, evitable
- Usage: An aspiring rebel trapped in the body and privilege of a preordained dynast, Mr. Gandhi’s infectious confusions have disoriented his opponents, supporters and observers alike
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4. The place where the goods are stored – Depot
5. The place for housing cars – Garage
(MISSPELT WORDS)
Find the correctly spelt word.
6. (A) Prospprous (B) Prosperuos (C) Prossperous (D) Prosperous
7. (A) Unblemissed (B) Unblemished (C) Unblemmished (D) Unbblemished
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
8. Hit the road running
- Meaning – Start performing immediately.
- Example – She was our old employee. She hit the road running when she joined us back.
9. 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.
