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The Quiz # President

The quiz given below is based on the reading article President.
The table below has two columns, column A and column B. Column A consist of the words given in the passage and column B has the meaning of the words. You need to match the word with the correct meaning.

COLUMN A COLUMN B
1. Defying  (i)to be changing rapidly or be in a confused state
2. Predictions  (ii)a person who operates or is in charge of an engine
3. Conclusive  (iii)a success or triumph over an enemy in battle or war
4. Victory (iv) to come between disputing people, groups, etc.
5. Coalition  (v)to announce or declare in an official or formal manner
6. Proclaimed  (vi)extension or carrying to further point
7. Apparently  (vii)to take up or goon with again after interruption
8. Churned  (viii)to challenge the power of
9. Turmoil  (ix)to start up or burst out in sudden, fierce activity, passion, etc
10. Frightened  (x)a state of great commotion, confusion, or disturbance
11. Executive  (xi)readily seen
12. Continuation  (xii)of or relating to a governmental or political system, principle, or practice in which individual freedom is held as completely subordinate to the power or authority of the state, centered either in one person or a small group that is not constitutionally accountable to the people
13. Authoritarian  (xiii)foretell a future
14. Domination  (xiv)to cheer, salute, or greet
15. Engineered  (xv)to associate or connect by some mutual relationship, as resemblance or friendship
16. Intervening  (xvi)afraid
17. Resumed  (xvii)the act or an instance of harassing, or disturbing, pestering, or troubling repeatedly
18. Flared  (xviii)to weaken or cause to collapse by removing underlying support, as by digging away or eroding the foundation
19. Assailed  (xix)favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority as opposed to individual freedom
20. Longstanding  (xx)existing or occurring for a long time
21. Harassment  (xxi)the management of the resources of a community, country, etc.,especially with a view to its productivity
22. Raided  (xxii)to flourish or thrive
23. Hailed  (xxiii)pertaining to or charged with the execution of laws and policies or the administration of public affairs
24. Economy  (xxiv)a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed
25. Bloomed  (xxv)the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything
26. Rebels  (xxvi)a combination or alliance, especially a temporary one between persons, factions, states, etc.
27. Undermined  (xxvii)the act or instance of dominating
28. Criticism  (xxviii)a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country
29 Authoritarian  (xxix)to attack vigorously or violently
30. Ally  (xxx)convincing

ANSWERS

  1. viii
  2. xiii
  3. xxx
  4. iii
  5. xxvi
  6. v
  7. xi
  8. i
  9. x
  10. xvi
  11. xxiii
  12. vi
  13. xii
  14. xxvii
  15. ii
  16. iv
  17. vii
  18. ix
  19. xxix
  20. xx
  21. xvii
  22. xxiv
  23. xiv
  24. xxi
  25. xxii
  26. xxviii
  27. xviii
  28. xxv
  29. xix
  30. xv

 

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Learn New Words # Improve Vocabulary

We have been talking about words to tell what is going on, what is happening, what people do to each other or to themselves or what others do to them. In the last series, we learnt words , enervate, castigate, self-abnegate and vegetate. Let us continue learning more words related to these ideas and improve our vocabulary for IELTS.

TO RECAPITULATE
You are a teacher and have just now given a long, complicated lecture to your class. But you want to make sure that you remember the important points, you restate the key ideas in short, a kind of brief summary, step by step, omitting all the extraneous points. What did you did?You recapitulate the main ideas.
TO SIMULATE
You are about to start your studies and get into work. But then suddenly a friend pops up and starts telling you about her problems with her boss, her boyfriend, her gynecologist and more. You are not at all interested in listening to her issues but you don’t even want to make her sad by avoiding her or telling her to go away. So, instead of shooing her away, you pretend to rapt attention, nod wisely at what you hope are the right places. What verb describes this feigning of interest? You are simulating.
TO INTIMATE
You are the owner of a company and some employees have complaint about possible things. You have taken into consideration all the points and called up a meeting. Although you don’t want to tell them directly of the possible actions that you will be taking. So, you instead of telling them directly, put in some hints of the possible actions. What verb describes what you are doing? You are intimating them of the possible actions.
TO ALLEVIATE
Drugs don’t very often do much cure to any disease. Yet these drugs are popular and universally used to lighten and relieve various unpleasant symptoms of diseases such as pains, fevers etc. What verb expresses the action of such drugs? These drugs alleviate the pain.
TO COMMISERATE
When people have suffered a bereavement or they have been wounded by life or by friend, they most need to feel that they are not alone, that you share their misery even if you cannot directly alleviate their sorrow. Your sympathy and compassion are alleviation enough. What verb describes this sharing of feelings? You are commiserating.
TO VACILLATE
You have got selected in Harvard and Princeton. Both of them are the most prestigious colleges and now you are confused as to which one to choose. Harvard is all over great and offers you with great scholarship but Princeton is the best for the course you are interested in. First it’s Harvard then Princeton, then back to Harvard. Which verb describes what you are doing? You are vacillating.

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Understanding Words # Expressing Oneself

Words are symbols of ideas – and if you want to learn more words it is always good if you learn more ideas. This time we will learn words that tell us about what is going on. what is happening, what people do to each other or to themselves, or what others do to them.

TO ENERVATE

Let us say you have stayed up all night, burned the midnight oil (yes this is the idiom for waking up all night). And what were you doing? An exciting assignment, writing a short story, planning a campaign? Well, no. These are some of the great ways of whiling away time. You were instead in a room with a patient or taking care of someone who just met with an accident or stayed up because of some emotional issues. Now, you are exhausted. Your exhaustion is mental, physiological and emotional. The verb that expresses the effect of the night’s frustration on you is enervate.

TO CASTIGATE

You are worried about something. May be the boss scolded or you had a fight with your lover. In that frustration you are driving your car and missed on a signal. Few minutes later you see the police van behind you and clearly hear the siren. You stop the car but the police officer turns out to be very sweet and courteous and only asks for your driver’s license and even says please.
You get more irritated and start yelling at him or her. You even go on questioning his/her honesty saying that he/she is wasting time and not catching the criminals. How did you reacted? The verb that tells it is castigage.

TO SELF ABNEGATE

Nirmala is selfless, to her the needs of her husband and children come first. She will buy things for them first and if money left, she would spend on herself. At the dinner table, she heaps everyone’s plate while she herself goes without. Nirmala will deny herself things, will scrimp and save and her self esteem does not permit her to give herself. What verb describes what Nirmala Does? She self-abnegates.

TO VEGETATE

You wake up every Monday morning, thinking how bad the morning is? Perhaps you start thinking about the last five years and how you have wasted them!! Not read enough books, made any exciting friend or had any startling thought. Economically, things are not better and you still follow the same old routine. No change, nothing but routine, sameness,monotony and for what? What verb describes how you think you live? You are vegetating.

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Improve Vocabulary # BAND 9

Given below are sentences that have a word that is highlighted. Below it are the possible meaning of the word. Choose the correct option and improve your vocabulary for IELTS.

  1. As alarming as that is, the crackdown will probably get worse.
    1. of, relating to, or resembling twilight; dim; indistinct.
    2. the severe or stern enforcement of regulations, laws, etc., as to root out abuses or correct a problem
    3. of or like leather
    4. dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter
  2. Corps and its alliesd, of course, view any such opening as a grave threat to the political system and, perhaps more important, their control of large segments of Iran’s economy.
    1. a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer
    2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject
    3. to confuse or mix up
    4. the 26 nations that fought against the Axis in World War II and, with subsequent additions, signed the charter of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.
  3. To run for president this year, it’s not enough to be a neurosurgeon, a senator or a former secretary of state
    1. doctor who treats eyes
    2. doctor who treats brain or nerve.
    3. doctor who treats heart
    4. doctor who treats limbs
  4. Nowhere does the Constitution specify that to run for president one must possess a bio out of Charles Dickens or Horatio Alger
    1. something deluding or misleading
    2. a funeral song
    3. to have as belonging to one
    4. a legendary doglike goblin believed to portend death or misfortune
  5. Everybody loves an inspiring narrative.
    1. a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious
    2. an abnormal fear of being buried alive.
    3. a werewolf or alien spirit in the physical form of a bloodthirsty wolf
    4. timid
  6. These people have argued before the Supreme Court and negotiated with world leaders.
    1. to deal or bargain with another or others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract or in preliminaries to a business deal.
    2. a soldier placed in front of a military company as a good model during training drills.
    3. an eating or drinking companion; fellow diner or drinker
    4. a person who heads a group, company, political party, etc.; a leader or manager
  7. And poor Donald Trump, who was born with a silver spoon and turned it into a gold one, railing about Marco Rubio’s credit cards.
    1. rumor or gossip
    2. an open cask of drinking water. b. a drinking fountain for use by the crew of a vessel
    3. government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power
    4. a fence like barrier composed of one or more horizontal rails supported by widely spaced uprights
  8. CNN broadcast the inconclusive results of two reporters’ weekslong quest to find the classmates Ben Carson tried to stab and hit with a rock when he was 14.
    1. a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something
    2. manner
    3. noisy, clamorous, or boisterous
    4. to evade work, duty, etc
  9. CNN broadcast the inconclusive results of two reporters’ weekslong quest to find the classmates Ben Carson tried to stab and hit with a rock when he was 14
    1. any wildly enthusiastic speech or writing
    2. to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon
    3. characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional
    4. a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
  10. All this mythmaking is a politician’s way of showing authenticity.
    1. having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.
    2. the accidental omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, as in Missippi for Mississippi.
    3. creator of myths
    4. of or relating to dreams

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