test your verbal ability

@tejashree-neQ3Bn • Oct 26, 2024

Oct 26, 2024

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Match each word in the first column with its definition in the second column

1. complacent----------------a. covering everything
2. complement---------------b. complete
3. complicity------------------c. consist of
4. comprehensive-----------d. make up(2)
5. comprise-------------------e. brief and to the point
6. compose-------------------f. making peace
7. constitute-----------------g. participation in wrongdoing
8. conciliatory----------------h. self-satisfied
9. concise

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Tejashree Katdare

@tejashree-neQ3Bn • Jul 31, 2010

complacent-- self-satisfied; contented to a fault
The football team won so many games that it became complacent.

complement-- to complete, to fill up, to be the perfect counterpart
The flower arrangement complemented the table decorations.

complicity-- participation in wrongdoing;
Complicity among the students made it impossible to find out which of them had set fire to the teacher.

comprehensive-- covering or including everything
The insurance policy was comprehensive; it covered all possible losses.
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Tejashree Katdare

@tejashree-neQ3Bn • Aug 1, 2010

comprise-- to consist of
A football team comprises eleven players on offense and eleven players on defense.

conciliatory-- making peace; attempting to resolve a dispute through goodwill
When peace has been made, we say that warring parties have come to a reconciliation.

concise--brief and to the point
A concise speaker is one who speaks concisely,or who speaks with concision.
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limestone7000

@limestone7000-AV88z8 • Aug 6, 2010

u missed compose and constitute
compose - make up!
constitute - to consist of
[i think u have mentioned "comprise - to consist of", so correct me if i m wrong]
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