Originally Posted by Daisy

Someone please share the source from where to prepare these Synonyms Antonyms..... Its really tough to memorize all 3500 words of GRE with synonyms-antonyms....

Originally Posted by Raja Bahar

Q.1 Choose the word that is near most similar in meaning to the Capitalized words. (1 Mark each) (20)
1. BRISTLE:
a) Regulate b) Flare up c) Frail d) Exhilarate e)None of These
2. DELUGE
a). Immerse b) Rescue c) Drown d)Overflow e)None of These
3. TIRADE
a) Argument b) Procession c) Angry Speech d) Torture e)None of These
4. QUASI
a) Secret b) Improper c) Seeming d) Whole e)None of These
5. VILIFY
a)To Prove b) Bost c) Defraud d) Defame e)None of These
6. RIGMAROLE
a) Unnecessary b) Disorder c) Confused Talk d) Game e)None of These
7. DEIGN
a) Condescend b) Pretend c) Disparage d)Refuse e)None of These
8. PROLETARIAT
a) Trade Agreement b) Government Secritariat c) Labouring Class d) Wealthy Class e)None of These
9. LUDICROUS
a) Liberal b) Fearful c) Comic d) Praise Worthy e)None of These
10. MALEFIC
a) Baleful b) Belonging to a male person c) Social d) Fighting by Nature e)None of These

1. The milk of human kindness
Fig. natural kindness and sympathy shown to others. (From Shakespeare's play Macbeth, I. v.)
Mariam is completely hard and selfish—she doesn't have the milk of human kindness in her.

2. A rule of thumb
a way of calculating something which is not exact but which will help you to be correct enough
A good rule of thumb is to cook two handfuls of rice per person.


3. Out and out
Complete; thoroughgoing:
One should have out-and-out knowledge about the world affairs.

4. To wash one's dirty linen in public
To discuss one's personal affairs in public
Our politicians must avoid to wash their dirty linen in public.

5. To pay through the nose
To pay too much or heavily
The elite class in Pakistan pay through their nose just to show off.

6. To lose face
To be less respected or show stupidity
He did not need to lose face but he made a mistake.


1. My boss agreed with my plan.
Correct: My boss agreed to my plan

2. If he was here, he would be as wise as he was during the war.

3. We have amusements in form of music.

4. You get hungry for all the work you have to do
Correct: You get hurry for all the work you have to do.

5. We were glad for being there.
Correct: We were glad to be there

6. I prefer the fifth act of Shakespeare King Lear the best of all.
Correct: I prefer the fifth act of Shakespeare's King Lear the best of all.

7. After finishing my lecture, the bell rang.

8. We needed not to be afraid.
Correct: We need not to be afraid.


1. “If I had spoken to my father as you speak to me he’d have beaten me,” he said to me.
Indirect: He told me that if he had spoken to his father as I spoke to him, he would have beaten him.

2. “How far is it”? I said, “and how long will take me to get there”?
I wanted to know that how far it was and how long it would take me to go there.

3. “Do you know anybody in this area or could you get a reference from your landlady He asked me.
Indirect: He wanted to know whether I know anybody in this area or could I get a reference from my landlady.

4. She told me to look where I was going as the road was full of holes and very badly lit.

5. He wanted to know if I was going to concert and suggested that we should make up a party and go together.

6. He said, I must’nt mind if the first one wasn’t any good.
Indirect: He told that he must not mind if the first one wasn't any good.
7. “What a nuisance! Now I’ll have to do it all over again”, he exclaimed.

8. “I must go to the dentist tomorrow”, he said. “ I have an appointment”.
He told that he must go to the dentist next day as he had an appointment.

Originally Posted by khalid hanif

Seniors please tell me about that English grammar which you think
contains sufficient idioms, pair of words, synonyms and antonyms for
the CSS English Composition paper.?

Originally Posted by Farhad Aslam

I skipped 2 pages in 2011 in my essay paper. Then I wrote PTO on those pages. 45 marks were not possible from first 6 pages they must have turned the page.

My title was : half born countries
No doubt 400 words were about culture and society but all this was the preamble for last line.