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    Tejashree Katdare

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    Updated: Oct 21, 2024
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    Abash: to make ashamed,to embarrass
    Use: Reena felt abashed by her inability to remember her lines in the school song.

    Abate: to subside, to reduce
    Use: Bad weather abates when good weather begins to return.

    Abdicate: to step down from a position of power or responsibility
    Use: Reena abdicated her responsibility as a baby sitter by locking the five-year-old in a closet and watching movie
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  • Tejashree Katdare

    Member • Jul 15, 2010

    Aberration: something not typical, a deviation from the standard
    Use: a snowstorm in June is an aberration.Snow doesn't normally fall in June.

    Abhor: to hate very. very much, to detest
    Use: to abhor something is to view it with horror.

    Abject: hopeless, extremely sad and servile, defeated
    Use: an abject person is one who is crushed and without hope.
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  • Tejashree Katdare

    Member • Jul 15, 2010

    Match each word in the first column with its meaning in the second column.

    1- abash --------- a. step down from power
    2- abate --------- b. hopeless
    3 - abdicate -------c. unsuccessful
    4- aberration ---- d. forgive
    5- abhor --------- e. total
    6- abject---------- f. subside
    7 - abnegate------ g. detest
    8- abortive ------- h. shorten
    9 - abridge -------- i. deviation
    10- absolute------- j. embarrass
    11-absolve ------- k. renounce
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  • Tejashree Katdare

    Member • Jul 15, 2010

    the answer is
    1--j
    2--f
    3--a
    4--i
    5--g
    6--b
    7--k
    8--c
    9--h
    10--e
    11--d
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  • Tejashree Katdare

    Member • Jul 15, 2010

    Abnegate: to deny oneself things. to reject , to renounce
    Use: self-abnegation is giving up oneself, usually for some higher cause.

    Abortive: unsuccessful
    Use: my friend's attempt to climb the mountain was abortive, he fell off when he was halfway up.

    Abridge: to shorten, to condense
    Use: the chief editor had abridged the book by removing the boring parts.
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  • Tejashree Katdare

    Member • Jul 16, 2010

    Absolute: total, unlimited, perfect
    Use: an absolute rule is one that has no exceptions and that you must follow, no two ways about it.

    Absolve: to forgive or free from blame, to free from sin, to free from an obligation
    Use: the priest absolved the sinner who had come to church to confess his sin.
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