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Vocabulary Exercise English Skill Building – 153 Learn many new words along with example sentences Fester 1. His wounds festered for days before he got medical attention.[verb] 2. Resentments are starting to fester. [verb] 3. The wound is festering, and gangrene has set in. 4. …
Rewriting Sentences English Skill Building – 152 Break down the passages to cimole sentences (News article sourced from the Washington Post) Passage 1 At the U.S. penitentiary in Marion, Ill., in a special unit so restrictive that it has the nickname “Little Guantánamo,” a broad-chested, …
Retranslation Exercise – 1 English Skill Building – 150 Retranslate the following lines taken from a BBC article to any of the three languages—Odiya, or, Hindi, or Kannada Iran’s morality police, which is tasked with enforcing the country’s Islamic dress code, is being disbanded, the …
Vocabulary Exercise English Skill Building – 145 Learn to use the right word in the right place Questions 1. The Odisha High Court has sanctioned strength of 30 judges. Sadly, there are just 12 of them now. As a result, the Curt is functioning in …
Vocabulary Exercise English Skill Building – 139 Some important words from Hindu dated November 24 Call out It means to say something loudly enough to attract attention of others for taking action against something bad. Sentence – It’s dengue season in Bhubaneswar. Patients in hundreds …
Vocabulary Exercise English Skill Building – 136 Fill in the blanks with the right word choosing them from the list of choices given Questions 1. After the banks were nationalized by the Late Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the general public, especially the bank customers reacted to …
English Skill Building – 122 Rewriting Sentences Break these three long sentences taken from a prominent newspaper to smaller and simpler sentences. Make sure you don’t change the meaning in any way. Sentence 1 – His win, which followed a slugfest of a campaign in …
English Skill Building – 119 Vocabulary Exercise Fill in the blanks of the following paragraphs. Remember, the same word will fit into all the blank places. Find out what was the word. Passage 1 My grandfather was reading the morning newspaper as usual, but, unlike …
English Skill Building – 118 Vocabulary Exercise Using the right word in the right place 1. I trembled in fear on seeing a man with a knife standing near my window. 2. The soldier shivered in cold in his outpost in Ladakh. 3. I collapsed …
English Skill Building – 117 Rewriting Sentences Join sentences, convert from active to passive and direct to indirect a. Join the following sentences to form a single sentence 1. I was weak in grammar. I used to lose marks in literature paper. This lowered my …