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Pair Of Words
Abdicate; It means to relinquish or renounce office.
It is applied in the case of rulers or kings Resign ; It also means to renounce office but it is generally used for the persons other than kings etc. Accept ; It means to receive Except ; It means to omit or exclude Adapt ; Means adjust, make suitable Adopt ; Take up something by choice like a plan or a child. Adherence; It suggests the idea of attachment Adhesion ; It is physical attachment Agreement; Agreement is a general term implying mutual understanding Contract ; Contract applies to formal and binding agreement with specified terms Amateur ; An amateur cultivates a particular art, science as a hobby Novice ; A novice is a beginner Answer ; An answer is response given to a question Reply ; A reply is a mere formal answer Ascetic ; Means austere or pertaining to the practice of asceticism, a mode of life involving strict self-discipline and self-denial Assassinate; Is to murder suddenly, treacherously or by stealth Kill ; It means to deprive of life Authentic ; It means authoritative Genuine ; It means real or true Avocation; A hobby or casual occupation is an avocation Vocation ; One’s regular employment, profession, or occupation is his vocation Affect ; To pretend, to produce adverse Effect ; Result; to accomplish Alter ; To change Altar ; A place of sacrifice Abject ; Mean, extreme Object ; Aim Abate ; Grow less Abet ; Help in a bad sense Abstain ; To keep away from a thing Refrain ; To keep away from an action Admit ; To accept a statement made by another as true Confess ; To acknowledge one’s fault or sin Amiable ; Lovely Amicable ; Friendly Artist ; One skilled in fine art Artisan ; Mechanic Ascent ; Going upward Assent ; Agreement Balance ; Balance usually means the difference b/w two sides of an account Rest ;It applies both to persons and things and means ‘what is left over after the separation of a part Banish ; To out a person from a country just like exile Expel ; To throw out a person from an institution such as school Beside ; It means at or by the side of, or near by Between ; It applies to two Among ; It applies to more than two Bale ; Bundle Bail ; It means a security Battle ; A single engagement b/w two armies War ; A series of battles Beneficent; Kind Beneficial ; It means useful Blunder ; It means a very serious mistake Error ; Departure from what is correct Mistake ; A mistake arises, when we take one thing for another or judge a thing wrongly Censor ; A censor is an official who passes judgment on written or printed matter, motion picture Censure ; The word censure means condemnation or strong disapproval Ceremonial; It applies to things Ceremonious; It applies to persons and things. But both suggest ritual or customary behaviors Character; A person’s character is what he actually is Reputation; His reputation is what he is believed to be Choice ; One has a choice in reference to two or more things Preference; It emphasizes the desire for one thing rather than another Cite; We cite a person or passage as authoritative by mentioning the person or passage Quote ; We quote the words of another by reproducing them exactly Coarse ; It means rough Course ; It is a line of action; text book Complement ; That which completes Compliment; It means regards Continual ; With some breaks Continuous; Without a break Canon ; It means a rule Cannon ; It refers to a gun Canvass ; To seek votes or business Canvas ; A rough type of cloth Career ; It means course of life Carrier ; One that carries like truck etc Concert ; It is a sort of performance Consort ; It refers to a husband or a wife Corps ; Division in the army Corpse ; It means a dead body Council ; It is an assembly or conference Counsel ; It means advice or an advocate Decent ; It means respectable or good enough Descent ; Coming down Dissent ; It means disagreement Differ ; It means to disagree Defer ; To postman Difference; Disagreement Deference; It means respect Defy ; It means a challenge Deify ; It means a sort of worship Draft ; It means a rough copy or plan Drought ; It refers to lack of rain Eminent ; A famous person Imminent; That which is about to happen or bound to happen Emigrant ; One who leaves a country to settle down in another Immigrant; One who comes into a country from another to live there permanently Excursion ; It means a picnic Incursion ; It refers to an invasion Facility ; It means a convenience Felicity ; It means a joy Fatal ; That which ends in death Fateful ; Something which is important Goal ; It means an object or aim Goal ; It means a jail Hall ; A big room Haul ; To catch Hoard ; It means to collect Horde ; It means wandering tribe Idle ; It means without work Lazy ; It means slow or shirker Insight ; It means understanding Incite ; To instigate Imperial ; It means royal Imperious; It means proud or arrogant Impudent; It means disrespectful Imprudent; Unwise Judicial ; Pertaining Judicious ; Sensible, wise Journey ; Used for distance on land Voyage ; A journey by sea Momentary; That which is short-lived Momentous; It means very important Moral ; Relating to morality or morals Morales ; State of discipline and sprit etc. Ordinance; It means a commandment Ordnance; It means cannon Precedent; It means a previous example President ; It means head of a state Prescribe ; To fix or advise use of Proscribe ; To forbid the use of Remember; To call to mind without any effort Recollect ; To call to mind something with some effort Soar ; To fly Sore ; It means in pain Suit ; To agree with or a court case Suite ; A set of room Wave ; Move to and fro; beckon Team ; A group of players Waive ; Forgo; not to insist on Teem ; It means full of Waste ; Expend uselessly Vale ; It means a valley Waist ; Part of body b/w hips and ribs Veil ; It means a covering Vain ; Proud; useless Wail ; It means a cry Vein ; Tube in body taking blood to heart Vacation ; Holidays, leisure Vane ; Weathercock Vocation ; Profession Wane ; Decrease |
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