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1. Atheist
Meaning in Hindi: नास्तिक
Meaning in English: A person who does not believe in the existence of God.

2. Autocracy
Meaning in Hindi: निरंकुश राज्यशासन
Meaning in English: Government By one Man who has unlimited power.

3. Autocrat
Meaning in Hindi: निरंकुश
Meaning in English: A person who rules without consulting the opinion of others.

4. Arsenal
Meaning in Hindi: हथियार घर
Meaning in English: A place where weapons and ammunitions stored.

5. Allegory
Meaning in Hindi: रूपक
Meaning in English: A story in which ideas are symbolized as people.

6. Aristocracy
Meaning in Hindi: विषहर
Meaning in English: A Government run by the nobility or the rich and the elite people.

7. Autobiography
Meaning in Hindi: आत्मकथा
Meaning in English: A Life story of a person written by self.

8. Avairy
Meaning in Hindi: पक्षीशाला
Meaning in English: Large cage or building for keeping birds.

9. Analgesia
Meaning in Hindi: पीडाहर
Meaning in English: Loss of ability to feel pain while still conscious

10. Altruist
Meaning in Hindi: परोपकारी
Meaning in English: A person who thinks unselfishly for others. Open / Comment

2022-05-26 07:38:18 ANSWERS

1. E
2. D
3. B
4. E
5. B
6. A
7. B
8. A
9. A
10. E
11. A
12. A
13. B
14. B
15. D
16. D
17. B
18. D Open / Comment

2022-05-26 07:33:24 Synonyms Multiple Choice Worksheet

Choose the correct word for each provided synonym(s).


1. wounding, injury, combat injury, lesion, injure, hurt, bruise, offend, spite

A. Scarce
B. Reform
C. Grim
D. Tragedy
E. Wound

2. wraithlike, shady, shadowed, umbrageous, dim, faint, vague, wispy

A. Assault
B. Expand
C. Shady
D. Shadowy
E. Grim

3. calamity, catastrophe, disaster, cataclysm

A. Wound
B. Tragedy
C. Grin
D. Reform
E. Outrage

4. inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick, blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, sorry, drab, drear, dreary, darkening, dour, forbidding, black, mordant

A. Shadowy
B. Expend
C. Lobby
D. Elementary
E. Grim

5. use, spend, drop

A. Grin
B. Expend
C. Shadowy
D. Plea
E. Elementary

6. smile, smiling, grinning

A. Grin
B. Assault
C. Elementary
D. Scarce
E. Expend

7. barely, hardly, just, scarcely

A. Elementary
B. Scarce
C. Plea
D. Expend
E. Lobby

8. rape, violation, ravishment, attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, set on, ravish, violate, dishonor, dishonour, outrage

A. Assault
B. Grin
C. Unending
D. Wound
E. Elementary

9. scandalization, scandalisation, scandal, indignation, shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, desecrate, profane

A. Outrage
B. Wound
C. Reform
D. Perish
E. Expand

10. shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous, fishy, funny, suspect, suspicious, louche, fly-by-night

A. Expand
B. Perish
C. Wound
D. Outrage
E. Shady

11. simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic, elemental, primary

A. Elementary
B. Outrage
C. Wound
D. Assault
E. Grim

12. ferociously

A. Fiercely
B. Assault
C. Elementary
D. Tragedy
E. Grin

13. pressure group, third house, buttonhole, anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, vestibule

A. Elementary
B. Lobby
C. Tragedy
D. Assault
E. Reform

14. ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing

A. Expand
B. Unending
C. Plea
D. Reform
E. Tragedy

15. spread out, inflate, blow up, amplify, boom, prosper, thrive, get ahead, flourish, extend, elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expound, dilate

A. Shadowy
B. Wound
C. Grim
D. Expand
E. Tragedy

16. die, decease, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it

A. Grim
B. Unending
C. Plea
D. Perish
E. Lobby

17. straighten out, see the light, reclaim, regenerate, rectify

A. Expend
B. Reform
C. Fiercely
D. Elementary
E. Scarce

18. supplication

A. Outrage
B. Grim
C. Perish
D. Plea
E. Elementary Open / Comment

2022-05-26 07:22:23 a lower level or position; away from a more central or a more northerly place; paid in cash at time of purchase; in an inactive or inoperative state; to a lower intensity; from an earlier time; noun (American football) a complete play to advance the football; soft fine feathers; fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs); (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil; English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896); verb bring down or defeat (an opponent); cause to come or go down; shoot at and force to come down; improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; eat immoderately; drink down entirely

Proliferation - noun growth by the rapid multiplication of parts; a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons) Open / Comment

2022-05-26 07:22:22 Unending - adj. continuing forever or indefinitely

Tragedy - noun drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity; an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

Assault - noun a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped; close fighting during the culmination of a military attack; thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946; the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will; verb attack in speech or writing; attack someone physically or emotionally; force (someone) to have sex against their will
Expand - verb become larger in size or volume or quantity; make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity; extend in one or more directions; exaggerate or make bigger; grow stronger; expand the influence of; add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

Expend - verb use up, consume fully; pay out

Grim - adj. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; causing dejection; characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; harshly ironic or sinister
Grin - noun a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement; verb to draw back the lips and reveal the teeth, in a smile, grimace, or snarl

Elementary - adj. easy and not involved or complicated; of or being the essential or basic part

Wound - adj. put in a coil; noun the act of inflicting a wound; a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat; a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride); any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision; verb cause injuries or bodily harm to; hurt the feelings of

Outrage - noun a wantonly cruel act; the act of scandalizing; a disgraceful event; a feeling of righteous anger; verb strike with disgust or revulsion; force (someone) to have sex against their will; violate the sacred character of a place or language

Reform - noun a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses; self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices; verb change for the better; make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices; improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition; break up the molecules of; produce by cracking; bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one


Perish - verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life


Scarce - adj. deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; not enough; hard to find; adv. by a small margin


Plea - noun an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed; (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer); a humble request for help from someone in authority

Fiercely - adv. in an emotionally fierce manner; in a physically fierce manner


Shadowy - adj. lacking in substance; filled with shade; lacking clarity or distinctness
Lobby - noun a group of people who try actively to influence legislation; the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest; a large entrance or reception room or area; verb detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors

Clamp - noun a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together; verb impose or inflict forcefully; fasten or fix with a clamp


down - adj. not functioning (temporarily or permanently); shut; understood perfectly; being put out by a strikeout; extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; becoming progressively lower; being or moving lower in position or less in some value; low in spirits; lower than previously; adv. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to Open / Comment

2022-05-26 06:30:37 grim - adj. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; causing dejection; characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; harshly ironic or sinister

Connecticut - noun a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the British colonies that formed the United States; a river in the northeastern United States; flows south from northern New Hampshire along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont and through Massachusetts and Connecticut where it empties into Long Island Sound

shadowy - adj. lacking in substance; filled with shade; lacking clarity or distinctness

lobby - noun a group of people who try actively to influence legislation; the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest; a large entrance or reception room or area; verb detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors

proliferation - noun growth by the rapid multiplication of parts; a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons)

grim - adj. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; causing dejection; characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; harshly ironic or sinister

perish - verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

fierce - adj. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; violently agitated and turbulent; ruthless in competition; marked by extreme and violent energy

proliferation - noun growth by the rapid multiplication of parts; a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons) Open / Comment

2022-05-26 04:22:49 List down the important words from the above editorial

Reading enhances knowledge and imagination Open / Comment

2022-05-25 07:44:26 Synonyms Multiple Choice Worksheet

Choose the correct word for each provided synonym(s).


1. applaudable, laudable, praiseworthy, admirably, laudably, praiseworthily

A. Access
B. Rung
C. Remuneration
D. Outstanding
E. Commendable

2. commissioned, licensed, licenced

A. Commendable
B. Trickle
C. Accredited
D. Violence
E. Harassment

3. confabulate, confab, consult, bestow

A. Fraught
B. Privation
C. Peril
D. Trickle
E. Confer

4. molestation, torment

A. Fraught
B. Hostile
C. Trickle
D. Remuneration
E. Harassment

5. dribble, filter, drip

A. Crucial
B. Peril
C. Trickle
D. Accredited
E. Elimination

6. wage, pay, earnings, salary

A. Crucial
B. Remuneration
C. Outstanding
D. Harassment
E. Trickle

7. prominent, salient, spectacular, striking, owed, owing, undischarged, great

A. Accredited
B. Crucial
C. Outstanding
D. Access
E. Hostile

8. approach, memory access, access code, get at, entree, accession, admittance

A. Trickle
B. Outstanding
C. Violence
D. Access
E. Confer

9. converging, convergency, overlap, intersection

A. Confer
B. Rung
C. Peril
D. Fraught
E. Convergence

10. important, deciding, determinant, determinative, determining, all-important, all important, essential, of the essence

A. Hostile
B. Accredited
C. Fraught
D. Confer
E. Crucial

11. parlous, precarious, touch-and-go

A. Accredited
B. Perilous
C. Crucial
D. Peril
E. Commendable

12. risk, danger, hazard, jeopardy, endangerment, riskiness, queer, expose, scupper, endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil

A. Perilous
B. Hostile
C. Violence
D. Peril
E. Remuneration

13. uncongenial, unfriendly

A. Access
B. Confer
C. Hostile
D. Peril
E. Perilous

14. round, stave, rundle, spoke

A. Rung
B. Access
C. Elimination
D. Harassment
E. Peril

15. deprivation, want, neediness

A. Perilous
B. Commendable
C. Harassment
D. Privation
E. Hostile

16. force, ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness

A. Violence
B. Perilous
C. Convergence
D. Accredited
E. Confer

17. liquidation, riddance, reasoning by elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding

A. Confer
B. Elimination
C. Commendable
D. Crucial
E. Outstanding

18. pregnant

A. Commendable
B. Outstanding
C. Hostile
D. Fraught
E. Privation Open / Comment

2022-05-25 06:50:08 Peck - noun a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches; a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons

Privation - noun act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; a state of extreme poverty

Crescendo - adj. gradually increasing in volume; noun (music) a gradual increase in loudness

Nascence - noun the event of being born

Tout - noun someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way; someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit

Pivot - noun the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot; axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns

Heft - noun the property of being large in mass; verb test the weight of something by lifting it

Resilience - noun the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit; an occurrence of rebounding or springing back

Scrutiny - noun a prolonged intense look; the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)

Shorn - adj. having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers

Chafe - noun soreness and warmth caused by friction; anger produced by some annoying irritation Open / Comment

2022-05-25 03:45:03 Serving those who serve: On WHO honour for ASHA workers

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/serving-those-who-serve-the-hindu-editorial-on-who-recognition-for-asha-workers/article65457248.ece Open / Comment