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1. Vulpine
- Meaning: Pertaining to a fox sly tricky cunning crafty
- Synonyms: mean, intend, aim, plan, prepare, fabricate, invent, contrive, devise
- Antonyms: ingenuous, artless, guileless, innocent
- Usage: His vulpine and aggressive disposition is responsible for much of the film’s finest moments
2. Obeisance
- Meaning: A gesture expressing deferential respect, such as a bow or curtsy; Deferential respect
- Synonyms: homage, respect, bow, bob, curtsy, genuflection, kowtow
- Antonyms: dishonour censure, condemnation, disdain,
- Usage: The students of different classes used multitudinal ways to articulate honour and obeisance to the teachers.
3. Galling
- Meaning: Annoying or bitterly humiliating; Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed;
- Synonyms: offensive, insulting, annoying, irritating, aggravating, exasperating, maddening
- Antonyms: pleasing, agreeable, cheering, comforting
- Usage: Most galling of all is the ridiculous statements the committee has made in disqualifying the Yes team.
4. Eclectic
- Meaning: Deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources; Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles; Consisting of many different elements
- Synonyms: diverse, different, various, choosing, selecting, selective, varied, broad, wide-ranging, comprehensive
- Antonyms: homogeneous, narrow, exclusive, same, similar, alike
- Usage: His eclectic work was written in 1945 and makes use of various styles such as cabaret, jazz and flamenco
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5. A large, tall cupboard in which clothes may be hung or stored – Wardrobe
6. Lasting for a very short time – Ephemeral
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Find the correctly spelt word.
7. (A) Disquissition (B) Disquisition (C) Disquisitione (D) Discuisition
8. (A) Propitiete (B) Prupitiate (C) Propetiate (D) Propitiate
(IDIOMS AND PHRASES)
9. get ducks in a row
- Meaning: To take action to become well-organized, prepared, and/or up-to-date.
- Example: We need to get our ducks in a row to ensure that there are no problems at home while we’re gone on our trip.
10. eat like a bird
- Meaning: To not eat very much. The phrase evokes the image of a pecking bird.
- Example: Don’t worry about making extra food for Kim, she eats like a bird. Example: I lost my tempter. I didn’t mean to bite your head off
