Elicit (v)
Illicit…
Don’t move on images……read this care fullly. It is almost impossible to elicit the information about someone�s illicit relationship.
Example:
The role elicited the actress’s flair for comedy that previous directors had overlooked.
Hypnotism elicited his hidden fears.
Her remarks elicited cheers.
Syn:
engender, evoke
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Elicit (Antonym)
A) Outlook
B) Overlook
C) Evoke
D) Educe
E) Thrust
Popularity: 24% [?]
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Confidant (adj)
Confident….. Confident is a close friend on whom you can repose your confident.
One to whom secrets are entrusted.As in above pic.
E.g.: He was a great confidant of Long John Silver.
Syn: intimate , assured, convinced, courageous, dauntless, presumptuous, sanguine, unafraid, undaunted, upbeat
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Confidant ( Antonyms)
A) nemesis
B) accomplice
C) confederate
D) Buff
E) Bulimic
Popularity: 20% [?]
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Sage (n)
S+ age……….
Reaching the age of maturity, a person becomes a sage.
E.g.:
>> Sage advice.
>> The sage who writes it.
Syn: academician, mastermind, prodigy, pundit, scholar
Ant: moron
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Sage (Antonyms)
A) seer
B) savant
C) imbecile
D) pundit
E) cirrus
Popularity: 32% [?]
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Indignity (n)
I can do everything for my girlfriend even below the my dignity. What about you ?
In + dignity……. Treatment or circumstances that cause one to feel shame and loss of dignity. Humiliating, degrading, or abusive treatment.
E.g:
>> The director suffered the indignity of being refused admission to the meeting.
>> Minor indignities such as intentionally mispronouncing a person’s name.
Synonyms affront, barb, dart, dig, epithet, indignity, name, offense (or offence), outrage, put-down, sarcasm, slight, slur
Related Words gibe (or jibe), jeer, sneer, taunt; abuse, invective, vituperation; disapproval, opprobrium; disgrace, dishonor, shame; attack, criticism, slam; torment, torture
Near Antonymscommendation, compliment; acclaim, applause, praise; adulation, flattery
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Indignity (Antonym)
A) Accolade
B) Sententious
C) Didactic
D) Objuration
E) Untaught
Popularity: 11% [?]
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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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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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