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01) Recuse (Verb) —
Meaning: excuse oneself from a case because of a potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
Synonyms: disqualify oneself, excuse oneself
Antonyms: include oneself, insert oneself
Usage: “it was the right of counsel to ask a judge to recuse himself from continuing to hear a case because of bias”
02) Roster (Noun) —
Meaning: a list or plan showing turns of duty or leave for individuals or groups in an organization.
Synonyms: list, listing, register
Antonyms: mishmash, mess, jumble
Usage: “next week’s duty roster”
03) Conscription (Noun) –
Meaning: compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
Synonyms: call-up, draught
Antonyms: dismissal
Usage: “conscription was extended to married men”
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04) Souvenirs (Noun) –
Meaning: a thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event.
Synonyms: memento, keepsake, reminder
Antonyms: forgotten
Usage: “the recording provides a souvenir of a great production”
05) Ramshackle (Adjective) –
Meaning: (especially of a house or vehicle) in a state of severe disrepair.
Synonyms: tumbledown, dilapidated, derelict
Antonyms: well maintained, sturdy
Usage: “a ramshackle cottage”
06) Rectitude (Noun) —
Meaning: morally correct behaviour or thinking;Â righteousness.
Synonyms: righteousness, goodness, virtue
Antonyms: infamy, dishonesty
Usage: “Mattie is a model of rectitude”
07) Malady (Noun) —
Meaning: a disease or ailment.
Synonyms: illness, sickness, ailment, disorder
Antonyms: health, wellness, comfort
Usage: “an incurable malady”
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08) flogged (noun) –
Meaning: To have dispossessed someone of something ; to lash or strike repeatedly, especially with a long pliable instrument ; to work arduously in pursuit of an aim or goal
Synonyms:Â strained, pushed, stole, pilfered, purloined, whipped, lashed, scourged
Antonyms: guarded, protected
Usage:Â The Tablighi Jamaat was mercilessly flogged, especially by certain people and sections of the electronic media, in order to profile Muslims adversely.
09) residual (verb) –
Meaning: Remaining after the greater part or quantity has gone ; The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed ;
Synonyms: consequence, ramification, repercussion, lasting, lingering, abiding, enduring
Antonyms: core, base, requisite, essential
Usage: Indeed, residual elements of the public display of violence are evident even in the Raja’s case.
10) surfeit (noun) –
Meaning: An excessive amount of something; To cause a feeling of disgust or revulsion in; To provide assuagement or palliation to
Synonyms:Â assuage, calm, soothe, disgust, repel, revolt excess, oversupply, superabundance
Antonyms: deficiency, insufficiency, thinness, boniness, emaciation
Usage:Â Yet they were victims of a surfeit of unwarranted violence..
