📄 Synonyms

This lesson covers synonyms and vocabulary precision to improve comprehension and language usage in competitive exams.

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Synonyms are those words, which are very nearly alike in meaning

but not quite. We have to choose from a number of synonyms, the

particular word that exactly expresses the idea that we wish to convey.

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Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the words provided

in brackets: Here is a…………… sword; it is the …………… one used by

Guru Gobind Singh (actual, real)

Give me a ……………account of the accident, use ……………

language (concise, brief)

A …………… mind gives and …………… expression (vacant, empty)

Captain Cook ……………the pacific, and …………… a great number of islands

(discovered, explored)

The ship …………… and many sailors were…………… (sank drowned)

In my new …………… I have not the comforts of a ……………(house

home) Mountain …………… is enchanting. What a beautiful

…………… (sight, scenery)

It was …………… to the astronomer that the eclipse would be …………… at