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Today’s article title is: ‘Reliance Industries and Future Retail in the Process of Finalising Share-Swap Deal’.
Did you find words that were absolutely new? Great! Below are the explanations given for some of those difficult words you found. Go through them slowly and don’t forget to do the exercises at the end.
Important words and idioms from the article
SWAP
Verb
Pronunciation: swop
Meaning: to exchange/replace
Synonyms: change, exchange, shift, substitute, switch, trade
Usage: They will swap places to confuse the attackers
Forms: Swap (noun), Swapped (adjective)
TREND
Noun
Pronunciation: trend
Meaning: the general course or prevailing tendency/ style
Synonyms: buzz, chic, craze, fad, fashion, mode, rage, sensation, style
Antonyms: classic, standard
Usage: It has become a trend today to come late for meetings
Forms: Trend (verb), Trendy (Adjective)
MERGE
Verb
Pronunciation: murj
Meaning: to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout
Synonyms: amalgamate, blend, combine, comingle, conflate, fuse, homogenize, immingle
Antonyms: cleave, disjoin, disunite, divide, disperse
Usage: The two paints seemed two merge into one another
Forms: mergence (noun), merged (adjective)
SYNOPSIS
Noun
Pronunciation: si-nop-sis
Meaning: A brief summary
Synonyms: abstract, breviary, brief, capsule, conspectus, digest, encapsulation, outline, précis
Antonyms: amplification, enlargement, expansion
Usage: I’m running out of time, so just give me a brief synopsis
Forms: synopsise (verb), synopsised (adjective)
RELEGATE
Verb
Pronunciation: rel-i-geyt
Meaning: to arrange or assign according to type
Synonyms: assort, categorize, class, classify, codify, compartmentalize, peg, rank, separate, sort, type
Antonyms: misclassify, missort, mistype, lump
Usage: The astrophysicists decided to relegate Pluto to another class of celestial bodies
Forms: Relegation (noun), relegated (adjective)
Practice Questions
Q1) If the words ‘trend’ and ‘classic’ make a perfect pair, select the correct pair from the following set of words following the same logic:
- Relegate-Categorise
- Merge-Cleave
- Swap- Switch
- Assort-Sort
Q2) Create sentences of your own with the following words:
- Swap
- Trend
- Relegate
- Merge
- Synopsis
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