(VOCABULARY)
1. Beleaguer –
- Meaning: To cause anguish or distress to; To prohibit or interdict the participation or inclusion of; To surround with troops
- Synonyms; plague, bother, harass besiege exclude, bar, ban, debar
- Antonyms- assist, help comfort, calm, console
- Usage: Make a detour through some pass, forestall your foes, beleaguer them, protect our troops!
2. Propitiate –
- Meaning: To assuage the agitation or anger of (someone); To bring into harmony or accord
- Synonyms: conform, mediate, adapt, reconcile, appease, placate, mollify, pacify
- Antonyms: anger, enflame, enrage, incense
- Usage: Since these people used tobacco to propitiate their deities, the herb itself was one of the instruments of godless, false religions.
3. Haggled –
- Meaning: dispute or bargain persistently, especially over the cost of something; To express a different opinion
- Synonyms: disagreed, argued, debated, bargained, bartered, wrangled
- Antonyms: agreed, complied, concurred
- Usage: They haggled for a lower price than that being asked and got the wreck for probably not too much more than it was worth.
(WORD SUBSTITUTION)
4. To write under a different name – Pseudonym
5. To supply land with water by artificial means – Irrigate
(MISSPELT WORDS)
Find the correctly spelt word.
6. (A) Hypocondriac (B) Hypochondriec(C) Hypochondrec (D) Hypochondriac
7. (A) Sumnambulist (B) Somnambulist (C) Somnumbulist (D) Somnambuoist
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
8. Actions speak louder than words:
- Meaning: This idiom means that what – people actually do is more important than what they say- people can promise things but then fail to deliver.
- Explanation: – He keeps saying he loves me, but actions speak louder than words.
