List of Important Pair of Words from CSS Past Papers
Pair of Words from CSS year 2000
1. Need:
Meaning: require (something) because it is essential or very important rather than just desirable:
Sentence: I need your help now
2. Knead:
Meaning: work (moistened flour or clay) into dough or paste with the hands or massage or squeeze with the hands.
Sentence: She kneaded his back
3. Queue:
Meaning: a line of people, usually standing or in cars, waiting for something
Sentence: There was a long queue of traffic stretching down the road.
4. Cue:
Meaning: a signal for someone to do something
Sentence: They started washing up, so that was our cue to leave the party.
5. Quarts:
Meaning: a unit of liquid measure of capacity.
Sentence: You spilled a quart of water on my table.
6. Quartz:
Meaning: a hard mineral consisting of silica, found widely in igneous and metamorphic rocks. Sentence: The rocks i have used contain some quartz, which may help to create the effect we want.
7. Choral:
Meaning: of a chorus or a choir,
Sentence: Choral singing became a matter of national pride.
8. Coral:
Meaning: the hard, stony skeleton secreted by certain marine polyps.
Sentence: What you will not find here are pristine corals.
9. Discrete:
Meaning: separate and distinct.
Sentence: These are discrete projects, and their funding records should be kept separate.
10. Discreet:
Meaning: careful and prudent in one’s speech or actions, especially in order to keep something confidential.
Sentence: Discreet silence over the matter.
11. Epic:
Meaning: An epic is a story or long poem telling the tale of a fictional or historical hero. Sentence: Epic tale that favors the bizarre.
12. Epoch:
Meaning: a period of time considered in terms of noteworthy and characteristic events, developments, persons, etc
Sentence: Epoch of the final decline of democracy.
13. Libel:
Meaning: Law a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation; a written defamation.
Sentence: He was found guilty of a libel on a Liverpool inspector of taxes.
14. Liable:
Meaning: legally bound or obligated, as to make good any loss or damage that occurs in a transaction; responsible.
Sentence: Chief Officer should be vicariously liable for the actions of their officers.
15. Mail:
Meaning: Postal material for a specific person or organization.
Sentence: I have send him a letter by air mail.
16. Male:
Meaning: Characteristic of or appropriate to this sex; masculine
Sentence: The king had no male descendant.
17. Banned:
Meaning: something that is prohibited.
Sentence: The death penalty is banned in New York and New Jersey.
18. Band:
Meaning: a group of people working together, particularly in the field of music.
Sentence: 9 zero Band’s new album, i remember being instantly impressed.
19. Barred:
Meaning: provided with one or more bars
Sentence: Barred owls roosting by the side of the road!
20. Bard:
Meaning: an ancient person who composes and signs poems about heroes and epic events. Sentence: Bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems.
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