📚Gds  Weekly vocabulary session📚 

21/05/2022(Saturday -09:05 pm) 📕

1 .COMBAT (VERB): : fight

Synonyms: tackle, attack

Antonyms: give in to

Example Sentence:

Doctors are trying to combat the spread of coronavirus.

2 .DISMISS (VERB): : throw out

Synonyms:
 get rid of, discharge

Antonyms: engage

Example Sentence:

The chief  minister dismissed five members of his Legislative assembly

3. COMPREHENSIVE (ADJECTIVE): : inclusive

Synonyms: 
all-inclusive, complete

Antonyms: partial

Example Sentence:

He owns a comprehensive collection of photographs.

4. DORMANT (ADJECTIVE): : asleep

Synonyms: sleeping, slumbering

Antonyms: awake

Example Sentence:

During the winter the seeds lie dormant in the soil.

5. MOUNT (VERB): : increase

Synonyms: 
grow, rise

Antonyms: decrease

Example Sentence:

The costs mount up when one buys a new home.

6. ACCOUNTABLE (ADJECTIVE): : responsible

Synonyms:
 liable, answerable

Antonyms: unanswerable

Example Sentence:

Ministers are accountable to Parliament.

7. TARDINESS (NOUN): : lateness

Synonyms: 
delay, retardation

Antonyms: punctuality

Example Sentence:

Forgive my tardiness, I had some very important business to attend to.

8. WOE (NOUN): (कष्ट): misery

Synonyms: 
sorrow, distress

Antonyms: happiness

Example Sentence:

His woes never ended due to his nature.

9. DESCENT (NOUN): : drop

Synonyms
: fall, sinking

Antonyms: ascent

Example Sentence:

The plane had gone into a steep descent.

10. UPTURN (NOUN): : increase

Synonyms:
 rise, jump

Antonyms: fall

Example Sentence:

Her luck seems to have taken an upturn.


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