An extract from the aforesaid book:
Ques. :
Find the synonyms of the following words:
1. . To forgo comforts is very vital in order
to secure good marks in any examination in your school. .
(a) renounce (b)
disown (c) leave (d) accumulate
Ans ‘a’
1. renounce:
v.t.: to give up formally.
2. forgo/forego :
v.t.: to decide not to have something that one may like to have; to do without.
3. disown: v.t.:
do not wish to own or support something ‘already there’.
2. Radha asked her highly talkative
and over-clever friend not to meddle
in her affairs.
(a) intercede (b)
impose (c) cross (d) interfere
Ans
‘d’
1. meddle
: v.i.: to interfere without any right.
2. intercede: v.i.:
to intervene with a view to reconcile or compromise.
3. impose :
v.t.: to apply by authority; inflict.
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1. ‘What’ as an
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‘three golden rules’ for using ‘the
articles’ in English.
3. ‘It’ as an
anticipatory subject with noun phrases and noun clauses.
4. Possessive
Adjectives Vs. Possessive Pronouns.
5. ‘Distributives’
(each, every, either, neither).
6. Verb transitive
with an indirect object and a direct object.
7. Factitive verbs.
8. Three times for
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