Saturnine (Adj.)
Mnemonic: Saturn is usually in hindu mythology is RAHU.. KETU IS URANUS. Rahu jab bhi kisike jivan me aata hai to he criess. When Saturn comes people cry. Saturnine: and believe me this must be the correct entymology for this word.
Usage: A saturnine expression on his face.
Meaning: Having the temperament of one born under the supposed astrological influence of Saturn.
Saturnine ( Antonym)
a) morose
b) sullen
c) glee
d) dour
e) sour
Popularity: 13% [?]
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Jollity (n)
Mnemonic: It sound like JOLLY.
Usage: There is much life and fun and jollity and some vulgarity in Pickwick.
Meaning: cheerfulness, a cheerful and agreeable mood
Jollity (Antonym)
a) antagonism
b) jolliness
c) joviality
d) gaiety
e) merriment
Popularity: 19% [?]
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Agile (adj)
Age +. Person of lower age shows more agility than old one.
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>>> An agile mind.
>>> Her powerful body and agile limbs.
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>>> A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks.
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Syn: active, brisk, buoyant, bustling, deft, dexterous, lithe, mercurial, prompt, quick, spirited, sportive, spry, stirring, supple
Ant: brittle, clumsy, ponderous, stiff
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Agile (Antonym)
A) Fleet
B) Frisky
C) Limber
D) Oafish
E) Zippy
Popularity: 19% [?]
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Besmirch (v)
If you put bis (twenty) mirchi in food, You will besmirch the reputation of the food.
Meaning:
To stain; sully
To make dirty; soil
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>> a reputation that was besmirched by slander.
>> the two deliberately attempted to besmirch my honor
>> besmirched the white bedsheets with their dirty feet
Besmirch (Antonym)
A) earth
B) spice
C) sully
D) defill
E) purify
Popularity: 15% [?]
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Perjury (v)
Jury……perjury
Speaking the untruth in the front of jury is perjury.
Eg:
It would, indeed, be the means of much perjury, and of much whipping, fining, imprisoning, transporting, and hanging.
—–The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry
It’s perjury, you know.
—Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles
Syn: deceit, deception, distortion, equivocation, erroneousness, fable, fabrication, feigning, fib, fibbery, fiction, hogwash, mendacity
Ant: fact, truth
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Perjury (Antonym)
A) foursquare
B) Deceit
C) chitchat
D) Mendicant
E) Mendacity
Popularity: 21% [?]
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Remonstrate (v)
Remonstration is a demonstration against a particular decision made by governing body.
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Meaning:
>> To say or plead in protest, objection, or reproof.
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Example:
>> She did not remonstrate, except again to repulse him quietly but firmly.
>> I only tell you this, in case you feel inclined to remonstrate.
>> Are we even in a condition to remonstrate with dignity?
>> But he did not retrace his steps in order to remonstrate with her severely in the street.
>> Madame Saillard ventured to remonstrate with her uncle.
Remonstrate (antonym)
A) defend
B) inveigh
C) rebel
D) wrangle
E) object
Popularity: 24% [?]
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