English Précis & Composition 2017

Pairs of Words
WRATH (intense anger): He hid his pipe for fear of incurring his father’s wrath
WROTH (angry): It was plain to see that Ali was now extremely wroth.
VERACITY: (accuracy, truthfulness): Officials expressed doubts concerning the veracity of the story.
VORACITY (avarice, rapacity): There is a higher thirst and voracity for a variety of pertinent content.
SUBTLER (elusive, knotty): Graham Taylor’s approach at Watford was far subtler than the critics portrayed.
SUTLER (victualer, a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army): Essentially a sutler was a camp follower who sold provisions to the soldiers, part of early logistics.
RETENUE (Restraint, Self-control): She smiled and some of her natural retenue melted.
RETINUE (Suite, Entourage): And then his retinue of friends arrived, and he floated away.
MINUTE (Extremely small): He will have no more than a minute chance of exercising influence.
MINUET (A slow, stately ballroom dance): Louie, who dances a shaky minuet if properly guided, was a shoo-in.
FUROR (fury; rage; madness): The killing was captured on cameras and caused an Internet furor.
FURORE (frenzy, uproar, commotion, turmoil): He always follows the latest furores.
DINGHY (A small inflatable rubber boat): Take a bulk spool of line and a dinghy with you on the beach.
DINGY (Gloomy and drab): A dark, dingy little shop that always smelt faintly of cigarettes.
BONY (Of or like bone): The head contains bony plates with short spines at the tip of the snout
BONNY (Attractive or beautiful): Aleeha is my niece and a bonny little thing she is.