Waver (adj.)
Wave….. Waver person waves to take a tough decision.
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Meaning:
>> to vacillate irresolutely between choices
>> fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction
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Example:
>> wavering flames.
>> he’s still wavering about whether to take the job
>> the steel tower wavered for a moment before falling over
>> wavered over buying a house
>> his resolve began to waver
waver ( Antonym)
A) quiver
B) totter
C) reel
D) flicker
E) resolute
Popularity: 10% [?]
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Paramount (adj/n)
Something that is as important as mountain.
E.g.:
>> Tending first to one’s paramount needs.
>> Such matters will have a great and paramount influence on the State
>> The paramount goal is to complete the renovations of the house with complete historical accuracy.
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Paramount (Antonym)
A) foremost
B) unparalleled
C) mountain like
D) eminent
E) last
Popularity: 30% [?]
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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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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: 25% [?]
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Effete (v)
Feet…. After six hours of rigorous exercise his feet get effeted.
Meaning:
>> Having lost character, vitality, or strength.
>> No longer productive; infertile.
Example:
>> effete tenderfeet
>> the effete monarchies…of feudal Europe — G. M. Trevelyan
>> the governor is too effete to take on the powerful special interests that really run this state
Synonyms decadent, decayed, degenerate, washed-up
Related Words decaying, declining, dying, failing, waning; soft, weak; dissolute, immoral
Effete (Antonym)
A) weary
B) effeminate
C) overripe
D) dissolute
E) mighty
Popularity: 17% [?]
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