Current Affairs (June-2015): Test-27

These tests are a check for your learning and are meant to serve as tools for assessment. The test is designed to check your Static General Knowledge and provide you an assessment of the same. Each question is followed by 4 options. Select the most appropriate option...

Verbs we sometimes Neglect

Word Meaning Synonyms Bereft 1. unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love (adj) 2. Sorrowful through loss or deprivation (adj) 3. To deprive and make desolate, esp. by death (usually fol. by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother. (verb) lovelorn, unbeloved,...

Verbs about Your Fellowmen

Word Meaning Synonyms Exculpate To clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate. Absolve, pardon, vindicate, acquit, exonerate, Assoil (to atone for) Deprecate 1. To express earnest disapproval of. 2. To urge reasons against; protest against (a...

Verbs of Everyday Use

Word Meaning Synonyms Aver 1. To assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner. Declare, affirm, assert, avow, swear, Pander To act as a pander; cater basely: to pander to the vile tastes of vulgar persons. (As a noun, pander means ‘a...

Passivism

This is a special word that we are putting up today, on the 2nd of October. 2nd October, as we all know in India, is ‘Gandhi Jayanti’, in other words the birthday of India’s Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. In more than one ways, this day is symbolic of peace...