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1. Accumulated –
- Meaning: gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of.
- Synonyms: gather, collect, assemble
- Antonyms: dissipate, mangle, blast, liquidate
- Usage: “investigators have yet to accumulate enough evidence”
2. Nurtured
- Meaning: care for and protect ( someone or something) while they are growing.
- Synonyms: bring up, care for
- Antonyms: neglect, hinder, stop, clog, inhibit, prevent,
- Usage: “Jarrett was nurtured by his parents in a close-knit family”
3. Apparent –
- Definition: clearly visible or understood; obvious.
- Synonyms: evident, plain, obvious, clear, manifest, visible
- Antonyms: unclear, obscure
- Usage: “for no apparent reason she laughed”
4. pertain
- Meaning: Be appropriate, related, or applicable to
- Synonyms: apply, bear, refer, regard, relate
- Antonyms: disconnect, disjoin, divide.
- Usage: The aim of the society is to promote genealogy and local history particularly pertaining to the Biddulph area.
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5. To secretly store more than what is allowed – Hoarding
(MISSPELT WORDS)
Find the correctly spelt lvord.
6. (A) Formerly (B) Fermerly (C) Furmerly (D) Formarly
7. (A) Inteligence (B) Intelligense (C) Inteligense (D) Intelligence
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8. All in a day’s work
- Meaning: (of something unusual or difficult) accepted as part of someone’s normal routine or as a matter of course.
- Example: If something is all in a day’s work, it is nothing special.
9. Dog in the manger:
- Meaning: (UK) If someone acts like a dog in the manger, they don’t want other people to have or enjoy things that are useless to them.
- Example: The toddler, like a dog in the manger, refused to give her older sister the notebook she needed to complete her school assignment.
