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2022-05-20 08:16:55 Synonyms Multiple Choice Worksheet
Choose the correct word for each provided synonym(s).

1. injured party, fatal accident

A. casualty
B. litigate
C. nexus
D. fateful
E. contemporaneous

2. pregnant

A. nexus
B. empirical
C. fraught
D. contemporaneous
E. culpability

3. action, sue, process

A. collusion
B. exchequer
C. litigate
D. preliminary
E. contemporaneous

4. launch, immerse, dump, dip, steep, engulf, engross, absorb, soak up, dunk, souse, douse, dive, plunk

A. culpability
B. clamour
C. plunge
D. empirical
E. litigate

5. attachment, adhesion, adhesiveness, bond

A. culpability
B. adherence
C. clamour
D. nexus
E. mushroom

6. fatal, foreboding, portentous, black, calamitous, disastrous

A. fateful
B. litigate
C. culpability
D. fraught
E. quarry

7. contemporary, coetaneous, coeval

A. quarry
B. preliminary
C. fateful
D. collusion
E. contemporaneous

8. link

A. plundering
B. spurt
C. plunge
D. nexus
E. fateful

9. blameworthiness, culpableness

A. litigate
B. collusion
C. plunge
D. culpability
E. plundering

10. overture, prelude, prelim

A. exchequer
B. preliminary
C. plundering
D. nexus
E. empirical

11. in tandem, bicycle-built-for-two, tandem bicycle

A. adherence
B. casualty
C. tandem
D. nexus
E. contemporaneous

12. treasury

A. casualty
B. mushroom
C. empirical
D. exchequer
E. plunge

13. empiric

A. quarry
B. scrutiny
C. empirical
D. contemporaneous
E. exchequer

14. clamor, clamoring, clamouring, hue and cry

A. nexus
B. clamour
C. casualty
D. quarry
E. adherence

15. mushroom cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud

A. plunge
B. scrutiny
C. adherence
D. contemporaneous
E. mushroom

16. examination

A. clamour
B. spurt
C. plunge
D. scrutiny
E. preliminary

17. prey, pit, stone pit, target, fair game

A. nexus
B. quarry
C. hazardous
D. clamour
E. empirical

18. pillage, pillaging

A. contemporaneous
B. scrutiny
C. adherence
D. culpability
E. plundering

19. risky, wild

A. hazardous
B. quarry
C. fraught
D. clamour
E. preliminary

20. spirt, gush, spout, jet, squirt, forge

A. culpability
B. fraught
C. spurt
D. plunge
E. exchequer

21. connivance

A. scrutiny
B. collusion
C. quarry
D. preliminary
E. mushroom




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

2022-05-20 05:30:44 fraught - adj. filled with or attended with; marked by distress

collusion - noun secret agreement; agreement on a secret plot

culpability - noun a state of guilt

fateful - adj. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; ominously prophetic; controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

interregnum - noun the time between two reigns, governments, etc.

plunge - noun a steep and rapid fall; a brief swim in water; verb begin with vigor; cause to be immersed; dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity; fall abruptly; engross (oneself) fully; immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; thrust or throw into; drop steeply

nexus - noun a connected series or group; the means of connection between things linked in series

plundering - adj. given to taking by force what is desired; noun the act of stealing valuable things from a place

exchequer - noun the funds of a government or institution or individual

spurt - noun the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid); verb gush forth in a sudden stream or jet; move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy


contemporaneous - adj. occurring in the same period of time; of the same period


empirical - adj. derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; relying on medical quackery

adherence - noun faithful support for a religion or cause or political party; the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition

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

litigate - verb engage in legal proceedings; institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

clamour - noun loud and persistent outcry from many people; verb make loud demands; utter or proclaim insistently and noisily

tandem - adv. one behind the other; noun an arrangement of two or more objects or persons one behind another; a bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats

hazardous - adj. involving risk or danger

mushroom - noun fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi; a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb); any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium; common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool); verb grow and spread fast; pick or gather mushrooms

preliminary - adj. designed to orient or acquaint with a situation before proceeding; noun something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; a minor match preceding the main event

quarry - noun animal hunted or caught for food; a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence; verb extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry


casualty - noun a decrease of military personnel or equipment; someone injured or killed in an accident; someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement; an accident that causes someone to die Open / Comment

2022-05-20 03:45:10 Crushing lives: On the need to enforce rules in quarries

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/crushing-lives-the-hindu-editorial-on-the-need-for-strict-enforcement-of-rules-in-quarries/article65430866.ece Open / Comment

2022-05-20 03:45:10 By the book: On OBC quota in M.P. local body polls

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/by-the-book-the-hindu-editorial-on-obc-quota-in-madhya-pradesh-local-body-polls/article65431042.ece Open / Comment

2022-05-18 07:44:28 Synonyms Multiple Choice Worksheet

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


1. drooping, droopy

A. accountability
B. sagging
C. avarice
D. shortcoming
E. Prominent

2. supposedly

A. deviation
B. avarice
C. Bonhomie
D. purportedly
E. Penchant

3. greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia, avariciousness, cupidity

A. Bonhomie
B. disproportionate
C. avarice
D. Thaw
E. assertion

4. averment, asseveration, affirmation, statement

A. shortcoming
B. Bonhomie
C. assertion
D. Harbinger
E. accountability

5. affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, geniality

A. assertion
B. prompt
C. avarice
D. Bonhomie
E. Thaw

6. preference, predilection, taste

A. Thaw
B. sagging
C. assertion
D. Penchant
E. Bonhomie

7. deviance, divergence, departure, difference, diversion, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation

A. deviation
B. accountability
C. Thaw
D. decadence
E. purportedly

8. degeneracy, degeneration, decadency

A. Straining
B. deviation
C. decadence
D. purportedly
E. Bonhomie

9. forerunner, herald, precursor, announce, annunciate, foretell

A. Harbinger
B. prompt
C. Penchant
D. chart
E. shortcoming

10. answerability, answerableness

A. purportedly
B. shortcoming
C. chart
D. accountability
E. disproportionate

11. strain, distortion, overrefinement, torture, twisting, arduous, strenuous

A. Straining
B. Penchant
C. chart
D. Harbinger
E. prompt

12. big, large, outstanding, salient, spectacular, striking

A. decadence
B. Penchant
C. accountability
D. chart
E. Prominent

13. defect

A. accountability
B. prompt
C. shortcoming
D. formalise
E. chart

14. thawing, warming, melt, melting, dissolve, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw

A. Thaw
B. formalise
C. deviation
D. chart
E. prompt

15. validate, formalize

A. purportedly
B. sagging
C. Penchant
D. formalise
E. chart

16. graph

A. chart
B. Bonhomie
C. accountability
D. purportedly
E. Prominent

17. disproportional

A. assertion
B. Bonhomie
C. deviation
D. Penchant
E. disproportionate

18. command prompt, prompting, inspire, instigate, remind, cue, motivate, actuate, propel, move, incite, expeditious, timesaving, immediate, quick, straightaway, on time

A. Harbinger
B. prompt
C. decadence
D. sagging
E. Straining




ANSWERS

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

2022-05-18 06:59:35 accountability - noun responsibility to someone or for some activity

chart - noun a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea; a visual display of information; verb plan in detail; make a chart of; represent by means of a graph

shortcoming - noun a failing or deficiency

dynastic - adj. of or relating to or characteristic of a dynasty

deviation - noun deviate behavior; the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances; the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function; a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)

decadence - noun the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

prompt - adj. quick in apprehending or reacting; characterized by speed and efficiency; performed with little or no delay; according to schedule or without delay; noun (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command; a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken); verb serve as the inciting cause of; assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned; give an incentive for action

brainstorming - noun a group problem-solving technique in which members sit around a let fly with ideas and possible solutions to the problem

assertion - noun a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary); the act of affirming or asserting or stating something

purportedly - adv. believed or reputed to be the case

sagging - adj. hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)

helm - noun a position of leadership; steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered

formalise - verb declare or make legally valid; make formal or official

reinvent - verb create anew and make over; bring back into existence

disproportionate - adj. not proportionate; out of proportion

avarice - noun reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins); extreme greed for material wealth

Penchant - noun a strong liking

Harbinger - noun an indication of the approach of something or someone; verb foreshadow or presage

Prominent - adj. conspicuous in position or importance; having a quality that thrusts itself into attention

Thaw - noun a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile; warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid; verb become or cause to become soft or liquid

Straining - adj. taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; noun an intense or violent exertion; the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

Bonhomie - noun a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) Open / Comment

2022-05-18 03:30:44 Thought and action: On Cong’s three-day Chintan Shivir

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/thought-and-action/article65423545.ece Open / Comment

2022-05-18 03:30:44 Symbolism and beyond: On PM Modi’s visit to Lumbini

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/symbolism-and-beyond/article65423604.ece Open / Comment

2022-05-17 08:30:13 Synonyms Multiple Choice Worksheet

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


1. disparager, depreciator, knocker

A. Adage
B. Detractor
C. Revive
D. resent
E. Disprove

2. postulate, fight, struggle, argue, debate, fence, contest, repugn, compete, vie, cope, get by, make out, make do, grapple, deal, manage

A. Turmoil
B. Contend
C. resent
D. squander
E. Disprove

3. consume, waste, ware, blow

A. Detractor
B. Disprove
C. pitchfork
D. Contend
E. squander

4. get rid of

A. consortium
B. Contend
C. Abolish
D. squander
E. Adage

5. agitation, excitement, upheaval, hullabaloo, tumult, convulsion

A. Adage
B. Detractor
C. resent
D. Disprove
E. Turmoil

6. pool, syndicate

A. erstwhile
B. Contend
C. consortium
D. Revive
E. resent

7. former, old, onetime, quondam, sometime, once, formerly, at one time, erst

A. consortium
B. erstwhile
C. Abolish
D. Revive
E. Detractor

8. confute

A. Disprove
B. Revive
C. resent
D. Turmoil
E. Adage

9. begrudge

A. Adage
B. resent
C. viable
D. Revive
E. Abolish

10. resurrect, come to, resuscitate, animate, recreate, reanimate, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify

A. Turmoil
B. Detractor
C. Revive
D. Adage
E. consortium

11. fork

A. Contend
B. erstwhile
C. pitchfork
D. Turmoil
E. squander

12. feasible, executable, practicable, workable

A. pitchfork
B. Disprove
C. viable
D. Abolish
E. consortium

13. proverb, saw, byword

A. Detractor
B. viable
C. Disprove
D. Contend
E. Adage




ANSWERS

1. B
2. B
3. E
4. C
5. E
6. C
7. B
8. A
9. B
10. C
11. C
12. C
13. E Open / Comment