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Kerala PSC English Grammar Book Study Materials 1 Page 660
Book's First PageONE-WORD SUBSTITUTION investigate (V.) : to carefully ex- 175. (4) jauntily 180. (4) synonyms amine the facts of a situation, an jauntily (Adv.) : cheerfully ; lively synonyms (N.) : words of the event, a crime, etc; to find out lousily (Adv.) : very dirtily/badly same meanings the truth about it or how it hap- homonyms (N.) : words pro- jocularly (Adv.) : with humour; pened nounced/spelled the same way humorously determine (V.) : to discover the but having different meanings zealously (Adv.) : with humour; facts to calculate exactly; estab- pseudonym (N.) : a fictitious humorously lish name used instead of his real 176. (4) barometer detect (V.) : to discover/notice names something that is not easy to see, barometer (N.) : an instrument antonyms (N.) : words of oppo- hear, etc. for measuring air pressure to site meanings show when the weather will 171. (2) pedant 181. (4) protocol change pedant (N.) : a person who is protocol (N.) : a system of fixed too concerned with small details/ metronome (N.) : a device that makes a regular sound like a rules and formal behaviour used rules especially while learning/ at official meetings teaching clock and is used by musicians for helping them keep the cor- statesmanship (N.) : skill in man- scholar (N.) : a person who knows aging state affairs rect rhythm while playing a piece all about a particular subject be- diplomacy (N.) : skill in dealing of music. cause he has studied it in detail with people in difficult situations pedagogue (N.) : a teacher compass (N.) : an instrument for finding directions without upsetting/offending literalist (N.) : a person who them ; tact makes/uses literal or realistic in pedometer (N.) : an instrument hierarchy (N.) : a system, art/literature for measuring how far you have especially in a society or an walked 172. (1) stoicism organisation, in which people are 177. (4) optimist stoicism (N.) : the fact of not organised into different levels of explaining/showing what you are optimist (N.) : a person who al- importance from highest to lowest feeling when you are suffering ways expects good things to hap- 182. (4) abdicate despair (N.) : the feeling of hav- pen/things to be successful abdicate (V.) : to give up the po- ing lost all hope magnate (N.) : a person who is sition of being king/queen; to agony (N.) : extreme physical/ rich, powerful and successful in fail/refuse to perform a duty mental pain business abduct (V.) : to kidnap materialism (N.) : the belief that creator (N.) : God; a person who abandon (V.) : to leave only material things exist has made/ invented a particular abort (V.) : to end or cause to 173. (1) polyandry thing end before something has been polyandry (N.) : the custom of pacifist (N.) : a person who be- completed because it is likely to having more than one husband lieves that war and violent are fail at the same time. always wrong 183. (3) inexorable polygamy (N.) : the custom of 178 .(2) universal inexorable (Adj.) : that cannot having more than one wife at the universal (Adj.) : done by or in- be stopped/changed same time volving all the people in the world rigorous (Adj.) : done carefully bigamy (N.) : the crime of mar- or in a particular group and with a lot of attention to de- rying somebody when you are common (Adj.) : belonging to or tail; thorough still legally married participated in by a community negligent (Adj.) : failing to give debauchery (N.) : immoral be- as a whole public enough care/attention haviour involving sex, alcohol or worldly (Adj.) : connected with despotic (Adj.) : a ruler with great drugs the world in which we live rath- power, especially one uses it in 174. (3) hallucination er than with spiritual things a cruel way hallucination (N.) : the fact of international (Adj.) : connect- 184. (4) specimen seeing/hearing something that is ed with two/more countries specimen (N.) : sample ; a small not really there 179. (2) notorious amount of something that shows imagination (N.) : the ability to notorious (Adj.) : well-known for what the rest of it is like create pictures in your mind bad acts specification (N.) : a detailed presumption (N.) : something famous (Adj.) : well-known description of how something is/ that is thought to be true or prob- criminal (Adj.) : connected with should be designed/ made. able crime spectre (N.) : something un- supposition (N.) : an idea that terrorist (N.) : a person who pleasant that people are afraid you think is true although you uses violent action in order to might happen in the future may not be able to prove it; as- achieve political aims or to force spectacle (N.) : a pair of glasses sumption a government to act (spectacles); an unusual sight/ SEE–667