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Kerala PSC English Grammar Book Study Materials 1 Page 668
Book's First PageONE-WORD SUBSTITUTION hirsute (Adj.) : having a lot of portico (N.) : a roof that is sup- 291. (2) journalism hair on the face/ body ; hairy ported by columns; one that journalism (N.) : the work of col- hoary (Adj.) : very old and well- forms the entrance to a large lecting and writing news, stories known and therefore no longer building for newspapers, magazines, radio interesting mezzanine (N.) : a floor that is or television 283. (2) simile built between two floors of a literature (N.) : pieces of writ- simile (N.) : a word or phrase building and is smaller than the ing that are valued as works of that compares something to other floors art-novels, plays, poems, etc. something else, using the words 287. (1) immigrant biography (N.) : the story of a like or as immigrant (N.) : a person who person’s life written by somebody metaphor (N.) : a word or phrase has came to live permanently in else used for describing somebody/ a country that is not his own artistry (N.) : the skill of an artist something else, in a way that is emigrant (N.) : a person who 292. (1) foundling different from its normal use, in leaves his country to live in an- foundling (N.) : a baby who has order to show that the two things other been left by its parents and who have the same qualities and to alien (N.) : hostile, strange and is found and taken care of by make the description more pow- frightening ; different from what somebody else erful you are used to sibling (N.) : a brother or sister personification (N.) : the prac- urchin (N.) : a younger child who visitor (N.) : a person who vis- tice of representing objects, qual- is poor and dirty, often one who its a place or a person ities, etc. as human in art and has no home literature 288. (1) wilfully orphan (N.) : a child whose par- wilfully (Adv.) : done deliber- alliteration (N.) : the use of the ents are dead same letter/ sound at the begin- ately, although the person doing 293. (3) hinterland ning of words that are close to- it knows that it is wrong hinterland (N.) : the area of a gether obligingly (Adv.) : helpfully ; country that is away from the 284. (1) budgeting very willing to help coast from the banks of a large budgeting (N.) : an itemized sum- voluntarily (Adv.) : willingly ; river or from the main cities mary of estimated expenses for without being forced swamps (N.) : marsh ; an area a given period along with propos- compulsorily (Adv.) : that must of ground that is very wet or cov- als for financing them be done because of a law or a ered with water and in which retrenchment (N.) : a cutting rule plants, trees, etc. are growing down of expenses ; a reduction 289. (4) asylum marshes (N.) : an area of low of expenses asylum (N.) : protection that a land that is always soft and wet saving (N.) : an amount of some- government gives to people who because there is nowhere for the thing such as time or money that have left their own country, be- water to flow away to you do not need to use or spend cause they were in danger for isthmuses (N.) : narrow strip of closure (N.) : the situation when political reasons. land, with water on each side, a factory, school, hospital, etc. that joins two large pieces of land shelter (N.) : the fact of having shuts permanently 294. (1) testimonial a place to live/stay; to give pro- 285. (2) maxim testimonial (N.) : a formal writ- tection from rain, danger or at- maxim (N.) : a well-known phrase ten statement, often by a former tack that expresses something that is employer, about somebody’s abil- usually true or that people think house (N.) : a place for people ities, qualities and character is a rule for sensible behaviour to live in memorandum (N.) : a record of marxism (N.) : the political and 290. (1) punter a legal agreement which has not economic theories of Karl Marx punter (N.) : customer ; a person yet been formally prepared and (1818-83) which explain the who buys or uses a particular signed changes and developments in product or service; someone who certificate (N.) : an official doc- society as the result of opposi- bets ument that may be used for tion between the social classes hacker (N.) : a person who se- proving that the facts it states neologism (N.) : a new word/ cretly finds a way of looking at are true expression/ a new meaning of a and/ or changing information on licence (N.) : an official docu- word somebody else’s computer sys- ment that shows that permission platonism (N.) : the ideas of the tem without permission has been given to do, own or use ancient Greek philosopher, Pla- customer (N.) : a person/an or- something to and those who followed him ganisation that buys something 295. (3) infallible 286. (2) pantry from a shop/ store or business infallible (N.) : never wrong ; pantry (N.) : a cupboard/closet client (N.) : a person who uses making mistakes ; that never or small room in a house, used the services/ advice of a profes- fails ; always doing what it is for storing food ; larder sional person/ organisation supposed to do SEE–675