Succeeding in exams requires hard work and dedication. For students to be thorough when writing their answers on exams, they should make sure to work on their language skills.
Here’s a way to improve your vocabulary and communication skills. Check out the words of the day and a short quiz to strive to improve your word power and language skills.
Apathy (noun)
Meaning: lack of interest, enthusiasm or concern.
Example: He also noted the need for politicians to combat public apathy by restoring trust.
Omen (noun)
Meaning: a sign of what will happen in the future; an omen
Example: In the midst of carnage and death, that unity is an omen of hope.
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Greed (noun)
Meaning: extreme greed for wealth or material gains
Example: Can you imagine all that greed and avarice falling on that child’s lips?
drill (noun)
Meaning: a rude and bad-mannered person
Example: Finally, the big, nasty oaf had received a serious blow for his rude and belligerent manner.
Accommodating (Adjective)
Meaning: willing to please others or accept what they do or say without protest.
Example: And an accommodating public is also, of course, invaluable to the transaction.
concur (verb)
Meaning: to be of the same opinion; agree/happen or occur at the same time; coincide
Example: Tests have shown that the cytogenetic determination coincides with the enzymatic determination.
modest (verb)
Meaning: raise objections or show reluctance
Example: Normally he would have accepted the challenge, but he objected.
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opinion (noun)
Meaning: a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source
Example: “Where there is smoke there is fire,” the old saying goes.
Dogma (noun)
Meaning: a principle or set of principles established by an authority as indisputably true.
Example: These beliefs are part of your political dogma.
Think and try to answer the following questions to understand how much you have understood.
- They follow the __________ of their religion. Which of the following words best fits the sentence? (Dogma, Demur)
- The old _____________ ‘might is right’. Which of the following words best fits the sentence? (Opinion, Concur)
- Can you think of any antonyms for the word complacent?
- Can you think of any synonyms for the word Greed?
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(Definitions and examples are from Oxford Languages)
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