Dank Damp
and cold
Dearth A
lack
Debase Lower
the quality value or character of
Debit An
entry in account recording a sum owed
Debunk Reveal
to be false
Decadence Having to moral standards and interested
only in pleasure
Decant Pour
from one container into another
Declaim Speak or recite in dramatic or
passionate way
Decorum Polite and socially acceptable behavior
Decrease Make or become smaller or fewer in size
amount or strength
produce
(verb, noun): to
bring forward, to make to bear or yield; something made or grown
The
lawyer produced new evidence at the trial.
The
produce from the farm will go to the market next week.
seduce
(verb): to persuade
(especially into doing something wrong), to tempt
Money
and power have been known to seduce many honest people.
induce
(verb): to persuade,
cause, or bring about by artificial means.
If
a child swallows poison, it is suggested that vomiting should be induced.
eternal
(adjective): not
effected by time, without beginning or end, ceaseless
The
lecture seemed eternal and many in the audience had fallen asleep.
medieval
(adjective): relating
to the Middle Ages (500 - 1500 AD)
There are many styles to medieval architecture and a
building built in 500 AD looks different from one built in 1000 AD.
faint
(adjective, verb):
indistinct, not clearly perceived, weak; to lose consciousness from lack of
blood to the brain
There
is a faint odor of apples in this room.
Some
people faint at the sight of blood.
feign
(verb): to pretend
The child feigned illness in an attempt to avoid the test.
fiction
(noun): something
produce from imagination, an invented story
The excuse Marvin just gave for not doing his homework is
pure fiction.
Nouns : A word used for naming anything is called a noun.Noun
may be defined as the name of persons, places, animals or things.
The boy
is honest. Ram
runs fast.
Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka We live in India
The Lion
lives in the forest. The
cow gives us milk.
Pronouns: Pronoun is a word which stands for a
noun.
Rama is a
boy. He goes to School. Sita
is a dancer. She dances well.
In the same
way “He,I,we,it,they” are all pronouns because they are placed for nouns.
Verb:
The word “verb” means work or action. So the verb denotes the work or action
done by a person, animal or thing.
The horse gallops. We eat good food.
The child drinks
milk. They are playing
cricket.
THE SOURCE OF OUR PROBLEMS...!
Cups A group of working adults got together
to visit their University lecturer. The lecturer was happy to see them. Conversation
soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
The Lecturer just smiled and went to
the kitchen to get an assortment of cups - some porcelain, some in plastic,
some in glass, some plain looking and some looked rather expensive and exquisite.
The Lecturer offered his former
students the cups to get drinks for themselves.
When all the students had a cup in
hand with water, the Lecturer spoke: "If you noticed, all the nice
looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.
While it is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, that is the
source of your problems and stress. What all you wanted was water, not the cup,
but we unconsciously went for the better cups."
"Just like in life, if Life is
Water, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just
tools to hold/maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change."
"If we only concentrate on the
cup, we won't have time to enjoy, taste and appreciate the water in it."
1)Inept is
the opposite of
a)healthy b)deep c)skillful d)sad e)happy
2)The
pure and simple truth is rarely pure and
never ___________
a)accurate b)complex c)simple d)wise
3)A cynic is
one who knows the price of everything and the__________of nothing
a)emotion b)value c)meaning d)color e)quality
4)Wisdom is
knowing what to do next;____________ is doing it
a)virtue b)luck c)happiness d)sanity d)nostalgia
5)It is easy
to _____________than to offer a helping hand
a)raise a
flag b)be on the ball c)lay down d)point the fingers e)sing
praises
6)The
knowledge exists in knowing that you know ____________
a)everything b)nothing c)the
truth d)the weather e)the meaning of life
7)Which word
best completes the analogy, water is to glass as letter is to___________
a)mail b)stamp c)pen d)envelope e)book
8)Insert the
word that ends the first word and begins the second:-
BEG(_I_
_N_)NER HAND(_L_
_E_)ADER
9)Insert the
word with two different meanings given outside the brackets:-
A flying
creature ( BAT ) A playing Tool
Cost of
Traveling ( FARE ) Food
Traveling
Vehicle (TRAIN ) To eduacate
Beautiful (FAIR) Festival
10)Give the
plural of the following:
Mouse – Mice ,
House – Houses , Man – Men , Van – Vans
_______________________________
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