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Tuesday 20 May 2014

LIST OF ANTONYMS


  • Above – below
  • Attack – defend
  • Ability – inability
  • Advance – retreat
  • Adversity – prosperity
  • Arrival – departure
  • Ancient – modern
  • Arrest – release, free
  • Ascent – descent
  • Acquit – convict
  • Acceptance – rejection
  • Armament – disarmament
  • Absurd – reasonable
  • Ample – meagre
  • Advantage – disadvantage
  • Agree – disagree
  • Angel – devil
  • Absence – presence
  • Bottom – top
  • Broad – narrow
  • Buy – sell
  • Blunt – sharp
  • Busy – idle
  • Beautiful – ugly
  • Blessing – curse
  • Bravery – cowardice
  • Belief – disbelief
  • Beneficial – harmful
  • Barren – fertile
  • Beginning – end
  • Barbaric – civil
  • Boon – bane, curse
  • Better – worse
  • Cheerful – gloomy
  • Concord – discord, disagreement
  • Complicated – simple
  • Cautious – negligent
  • Consent – dissent
  • Confess – deny
  • Compare – contrast
  • Courageous – timid
  • Care – neglect
  • Creation – destruction
  • Confidence – diffidence
  • Civilized – uncivilized, wild
  • Cause – effect
  • Certain – uncertain
  • Credit – cash
  • Converge – diverge
  • Docile – stubborn
  • Deep – shallow
  • Friendly – hostile
  • Foolish – wise
  • False – true
  • Guest – host
  • Gain – loss
  • Grateful – ungrateful
  • General – particular
  • Genuine – spurious
  • Humility – insolence
  • Heaven – hell
  • Honour – shame, dishonour
  • Hope – despair
  • Heredity – environment
  • Humble – proud, haughty
  • Honest – dishonest
  • Import – export
  • Include – exclude
  • Increase – decrease
  • Innocent – guilty
  • Initial – final
  • Inhale – exhale
  • Justice – injustice
  • Junior – senior
  • Joy – sorrow
  • Knowledge – ignorance
  • Kind – cruel
  • Like – dislike
  • Literate – illiterate
  • Logical – illogical
  • Lack – abundance
  • Legitimate – illegitimate
  • Lend – borrow
  • Material – spiritual
  • Maximum – minimum
  • Mortal – immortal
  • Miser – spendthrift
  • Merit – demerit
  • Mourn – rejoice
  • Noble – ignoble
  • Natural – unnatural, artificiaL
  • Oral – written
  • Dead – alive
  • Dull – bright, interesting
  • Defence – offence
  • Domestic – wild
  • Deficit – surplus
  • Deposit – withdraw
  • Dwarf – giant
  • Demand – supply
  • Defeat – victory
  • Difficult – easy
  • Desolate – inhabited
  • Distress – comfort
  • Dynamic – static
  • Diminish – increase
  • Death – life
  • Defensive – offensive
  • Dependent – independent
  • Dry – wet
  • Exterior – interior
  • Examiner – examinee
  • Expedite – delay
  • Ebb – flow
  • Enjoyment – suffering
  • Early – late
  • Economical – extravagant
  • Encourage – discourage
  • Earn – spend
  • Entrance – exit Failure – success
  • Frank – reserved
  • Freedom – slavery
  • Fame – obscurity
  • Front – back
  • Frown – smile
  • Far – near
  • Fortune – misfortune
  • Full – empty
  • Fine – coarse
  • Fresh – stale

Sunday 18 May 2014

Important Idioms and Phrases



1. Like a fish out of water - In a strange situation
2. Smell a rat - Suspect something foul
3. Read between the lines - Understand the hidden meaning
4. Tooth and Nail - With all of one’s power
5. Spread like wild fire - Spread quickly
6. Hit the nail on the head - Do or say the exact thing
7. Burn the midnight Oil - Work or study hard
8. Under his thumb - Under his control
9. With a high hand - Oppressively
10. Gain ground - Become popular
11. By leaps and bounds - Rapidly
12. Make off with - To run away with
13. Pass away - to die
14. To cry for the moon - Ask for the impossible
15. To make a pig of oneself - To over-eat
16. Donkey’s years - Very long time
17. To pull one’s leg - to joke; tease
18. To keep one’s fingers crossed - to hope fervently
19. To eat humble pie - To apologize in a humble manner
20. To fight a losing battle - Struggle without hope of success
21. A deadlock - A position when no progress can be made
22. A daredevil - A person who does not care for any
consequences
23. Once in a blue moon - Very rarely
24. At a premium - Difficult to get or obtain
25. To play the game - To act honestly

Thursday 15 May 2014

List of Antonyms


1. jocular – serious
2. haggard – fresh
3. debacle – miracle
4. adroit – awkward
5. gullible – wise
6. nefarious – respectable
7. bestial – gentle
8. ravage – protect
9. wanton – decent
10. laconic – wordy
11. embellish – spoil
12. enigmatic – obvious
13. callow – mature
14. obdurate – yielding
15. philistine – aesthete
16. temerity – cowardice
17. turbid – clear
18. wastrel – conservator
19. gregarious – antisocial
20. urbane – uncivilized
21. antipathy – love
22. aplomb – confusion
23. nebulous – clear
24. palatial – humble
25. sadistic – kind hearted
26. altruism – miserliness
27. amenable – unwilling
28. amorphous – definite
29. prudent – unwise
30. insolent – humble
31. celestial – earthly
32. chaos – order
33. clumsy – graceful
34. contemporary – ancient
35. compassion – hatred
36. acrimony – politeness
37. abominable – lovable
38. detrimental – helpful
39. diversity – similarity
40. bewitched – disgusted
41. retreat – advance
42. fickle – firm
43. vigilant – careless
44. dexterous – awkward
45. sordid – reputable
46. confiscate – give
47. destitute – lucky
48. censure – compliment
49. mandatory – optional
50. pragmatic – impractical

Thursday 8 May 2014

Important Phobias –B


Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes.
Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria.
Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets.
Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.
Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.
Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Bathophobia- Fear of depth.
Batophobia- Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
Batrachophobia- Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.(datafacebook/cnaonweb)
Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)
Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
Blennophobia- Fear of slime.
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
Botanophobia- Fear of plants.
Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia- Fear of body smells.
Brontophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
Bufonophobia- Fear of toads.

Monday 5 May 2014

Important Phobias –A


Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.
Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.
Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals.
Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects.
Ailurophobia- Fear of cats.
Albuminurophobia- Fear of kidney disease.
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
Algophobia- Fear of pain.
Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.
Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
Altophobia- Fear of heights.
Amathophobia- Fear of dust.
Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car.
Ambulophobia- Fear of walking.
Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia.
Amychophobia- Fear of scratches or being scratched.
Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.
Ancraophobia- Fear of wind. (Anemophobia)
Androphobia- Fear of men.
Anemophobia- Fear of air drafts or wind.(Ancraophobia) 
Anginophobia- Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc.
Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint.
Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.
Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.
Antlophobia- Fear of floods.
Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.
Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia)
Apiphobia- Fear of bees.
Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations.
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders.
Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers.
Arrhenphobia- Fear of men.
Arsonphobia- Fear of fire.(data facebook/cnaonweb)
Asthenophobia- Fear of fainting or weakness.
Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia)(data facebook/cnaonweb)
Astrophobia- Fear of stars or celestial space.
Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.
Ataxiophobia- Fear of ataxia. (muscular incoordination)
Ataxophobia- Fear of disorder or untidiness.
Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection.
Atephobia- Fear of ruin or ruins.
Athazagoraphobia- Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.
Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions.
Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.(data facebook/cnaonweb)
Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.
Aurophobia- Fear of gold.
Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern lights.
Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor.
Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty.
Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself.
Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of flying.

Sunday 4 May 2014

Wednesday 30 April 2014