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Dr. T.K. Jain.

AFTERSCHOOOL
M: 9414430763
tkjainbkn@yahoo.co.in
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 ANNEX
• TO ADD
• TO ACQUIRE

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 ANNIHILATE
• THE USA ANNIHILATED IRAQ
• TO DESTROY

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 APPRAISE
• HE APPRAISED MY PERFORMANCE
• TO EVALUATE
• TO ASSESS

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 APOSTATE
• FALSE
• SOMEONE WHO CHANGES HIS
RELIGION OR IDEAS.

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 ARCHAIC
• ANTIQUATED
• OLD
• OLD FASHIONED

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 ARBOR
• TREE

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 ARID
• DRY
• DESERT AREA

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 AROMA
• PLEASANT ODOUR
• RICE HAS NICE AROMA

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 ARISTOCRAT
• HEREDITARY NOBLE

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 ARDENT
• BURNING WITH PASSION

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 ATONE
• TO MAKE AMEND FOR
• TO REPENT
• TO SUFFER DUE TO FOLLY

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 BANAL
• COMMONPLACE
• BORING

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 AZURE
• COLOUR OF SKY

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 AVERSE
• RELUCTANT

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 AVER
• ASSERT
• TO SAY WITH CONFIDENCE

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 BELITTLE
• DISPARAGE
• TO DISCOURAGE OTHERS

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 BLITHE
• JOYOUS
• HAPPY

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 BLEAK
• DESOLATE
• DISAPPOINTED
• DEJECTED

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 BOLSTER
• TO ENCOURAGE

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 CONNIVE
• TO BE IN COLLUSION

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 CONJECTURE
• A GUESS

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 CONSUMMATE
• TO COMPLETE
• TO UNDERTAKE A WORK

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 CONTIGUITY
• PROXIMITY

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 CONSTRICT
• TO BIND

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 CONTUSION
• BRUISE

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 CONVALESCENCE
• RECOVER
• RECOVER AFTER SICKNESS

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 COSMOS
• THE UNIVERSE

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 CORROBORATE
• TO STRENGTHEN AS PROOF

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 CULPRIT
• CRIMINAL
• SOMEONE WHO HAS DONE A
CRIME

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 CUPIDITY
• AVARICE
• NEVER ENDING GREED
• LEWD

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 EFFACE
• OBLITERATE

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 EMBELISH
• TO DECORATE

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 EMANCIPATE
• TO FREE FROM BONDAGE

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 EMBARGO
• A TRADE RESTRICTION
• INDIA HAS PUT EMBARGO ON
IMPORTS FROM CHINA

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 EMBEZZLE
• TO MISAPPROPRIATE
• TO SIPHON OFF

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 EMBROIL
• TO INVOLVE IN A STRIFE
• TO INVOLVE IN A DISPUTE

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 HEIFER
• A YOUNG COW

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 HERESY
• AN OPINION

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 HEINOUS
• ODIOUSLY SINFUL

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 HORDE
• GROUP OF PEOPLE

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 HOSTILITY
• HATRED
• MALICE

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 HUCKSTER
• PEDDLER
• VENDORER

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 HYPOCRISY
• INSINCERITY

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 ICHTHYIC
• FISH LIKE

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 IMPETUOUS
• IMPULSIVE
• IN A HURRY
• TAKING DECISION
UNREASONABLY

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 IMPERVIOUS
• IMPENETRABLE
• WHICH CANNOT BE BROKEN
• FORT OF CHITTOR IS
IMPERVIOUS

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 IMPORTUNE
• TO HARASS WITH PERSISTENT
DEMANDS
• TO BEG AGAIN AND AGAIN
• TO ACCOST

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 IMPOVERISH
• TO MAKE POOR
• TO MAKE PAUPER

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 CORRECT IT :
He gave me many advices.
• Advice is not countable
• He gave me many pieces of advice
• or he gave me advice

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 CORRECT IT :
he gave me two breads
• Bread is not countable – so use :
• He gave me two pieces of bread.
• Or he gave me two slices / loves of
bread

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 CORRECT IT : what an
awful weather it is.
• Weather is not countable, therefore
don’t use an / a before this.
• What awful weather it is.

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CORRECT IT : can you give
me an information about
Ram ?
• Information is not countable, so don’t
use a/ an before information.
• Don’t use informations also

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CORRECT IT : I have an
important work to do.
• Work is not countable, so don’t use
an.
• Corrected sentence will be :
• I have some important work to do
• Or
• I have an important piece of work.

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 CORRECT IT : please
give me a soap.
• Soap is not countable
• Please give me a piece of soap.
• Or
• Please give me some soap
• Or please give me soap.

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 CORRECT IT : condemned
to death, the scaffold was
erected for his execution.
• The subject here is the scaffold – which
cannot be condemned to death.
• Therefore, to correct it, change the
sentence as:
• As he was condemned to death, the
scaffold was erected for his execution.
• Now the sentence is in passive voice and
clearly denotes the meaning.

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 Correct it : Being a rainy
day, I wore my mackintosh.
• Which is the subject of the first
part of the sentence - is it I.
• I cannot be a rainy day – therefore
add a subject to the first part of the
sentence:
• It being a rainy day, I wore my
mackintosh.

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 Correct it : crossing the
channel, a heavy storm
arose.
• Which is the subject of crossing the
channel – is it storm or something
else.
• Storm cannot be subject of first
part of the sentence – so correct it :
• While I was crossing the channel, a
heavy storm arose.

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 Improve it : Ram was born in
Surat; Ram received his education
in Mumbai; Ram got his job in
Delhi.
• Reduce the size of the sentence by
making it compact:

• Born in Surat, Ram got his education

in Mumbai and job in Delhi.

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 Correct it :
the property, for sale, musician, with
carved legs, a piano,of.
• Carved legs should be with piano.
• For sale should be with piano.
• The property should be with musician
• Corrected sentence will be:
• For sale, a piono with carved legs, the
property of musician.

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Rearrange it : the tender letter, his, of
peevish vexation, mother had written,
in a fit, he tore up, him.
• Peevish vexation should be near – in a fit.
• The tender letter should be near mother.
• He tore up the tender letter in a fit of a
peevish vexation, which the mother had
written him.
• Or
• In a fit of peevish vexation, he tore up the
tender letter, his mother had written him.

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 Rearrange it :
wanted ,a baby, of about 20 years, a
nurse maid, old, is, for.
• a nurse maid of about 20 years old is
wanted for a baby.

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 Rearrange it :
as a mark of affection,accidentally shot by, to
the memory of Rahul,who was, by his brother,
this monument has been erected,

• This monument has been erected, as

a mark of affection, to the memory
of Rahul, who was accidentally shot
by his brother.

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 Rearrange it :
fortunately, 20 people died,
in 45 wrecks, only.
• In 45 wrecks, fortunately, only 20
people died.

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 Rearrange it :
with a gun, the sparrow, he shot, his
brother, which was, eating, crumbs, in
the field of .
• Which should be near sparrow

• With a gun, he shot the sparrow,

which was eating crumbs in the field
of his brother.

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 Rearrange it : Mrs. Arundhati, was
sitting, with her husband, when Nakul
and Vivek came, with her lap, up, on the
steps, full of newspapers, of the hotel.
• With her lap full of newspapers, Mrs.
Arundhati was sitting with her
husband on the steps of hotel, when
Nakul and Vivek came up.

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 Rearrange it :
8 feet long, bank, lying on, in sunshine,
an alligator, you will see, sometimes.
• Sometimes, you will see an alligator, 8
feet long, lying on bank in sunshine.

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 Rearrange it:
in a chair, with a swollen leg, I spent, my
holidays, the three last days of ,

• With a swollen leg should come close

to I.
• With a swollen leg, I spent the three
last days of my holidays in a chair.

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 Rearrange it :
full of rage and fury, the constable, had
knocked the prosecutor down, said that the
prisoner, seizing the bolster,

• The constable said that the prisoner,

full of rage and fury, seizing the
bolster, had knocked the prosecutor
down.

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 Correct it :
it was bitter cold.
• Bitter is adjective. Cold is also adjective.
Bitter is defining cold. Therefore, don’t
use adjective, use adverb.
Rule: use adverb for characteristics of
adjective / verb.
• Corrected sentence:
• It was bitterly cold.

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 Correct it:
no one can write as neat as
Gopi.
• Neat is adjective, we should use
adverb here.
• No one can write as neatly as Gopi
does.

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 Correct it :
the flowers smell sweetly.
• Here we have used adverb – to show
the quality of verb. But actually we
want to talk about quality of flower
(noun) – therefore use adjective.
• The flowers smell sweet.

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 Correct it : I am very
annoyed to see it.
• Very is never used with past
participle (here annoyed).
• Therefore replace very by much
• Correct sentence:
• I am much annoyed to see it.

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 Correct it :
this novel is too interesting.
• Here too is wrongly used.
• Correct :
• This novel is very interesting.

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 Correct it :
I am much glad to know
about it.
• Replace much by very
• Glad is adjective, and much cannot be
used with adjectives.

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 Correct it:
this hardly won liberty
should be protected.
• Replace hardly by hard.

• This hard won liberty should be

protected.

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 Correct it : my friend said he never
remembered having read such a
wonderful book.
• my friend said he remembered never having read such a
wonderful book
• (we have put never before remember, but it should have
been put before reading).

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 Correct it :
I couldn’t help without
laughing at the joke.
• Avoid double negative or double
superlative or double comparative.
• Correct it as:
• I couldn’t help laughing at the joke

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 Correct it :
while I entered into the room, the
light was dazzling.
• Replace while by when – (when
denotes a moment – while denotes
duration)
• Never use into with entered – when
referring to physical space.
• When I entered the room, the light was dazzling

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 Correct it :
going up the hill, an old
temple was seen.
• Which is the subject of the first
part of sentence?
• Change the sentence as:
• going up the hill, We / I saw an old
temple.

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 Correct it :
I don’t know nothing on this
subject.
• Avoid double negatives.
• I don’t know anything on this subject.

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 Correct it: I don’t know
something on this subject.
• Replace something by anything
(anything is used with negatives or
questions).
• I don’t know anything on this subject.

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 Correct it :
what a fun!
• Fun is not countable, therefore don’t
use A with Fun.

• Corrected sentence will be :

• What fun!.

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 Thanks
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