Pair of Words from CSS year 2013
1. Adjoin:
Meaning: To be next to; be contiguous to
Sentence: A waiting room for friends of patients immediately adjoins.
2. Adjourn:
Meaning: To end something either temporarily or permanently or to postpone it to another time or place.
Sentence: Adjourn to consider its decision.
3. Allay
Meaning:To make better or decrease something that is unpleasant.
Sentence: During health questions the health secretary did not allay my fears.
4. Ally
Meaning: To join another in a mutually beneficial relationship.
Sentence: During times of war, Britain was Poland’s closest ally.
5. Click
Meaning: To make or cause a slight, sharp sound, or to be suddenly clear
Sentence: Please click here to view the found desired web site.
6. Clique
Meaning: A small, closed off group of people.
Sentence: A big society exists in order to form cliques.
7. Distract
Meaning: T o draw someone’s attention away from something and on to something else. Sentence: You might want to even keep yourself slightly distracted.
8. Detract:
Meaning: Reduce or take away the worth or value
Sentence: Your foolish action had detracted my main idea.
9. Liable
Meaning: Being likely to do or experience something or to having legal responsibility for something.
Sentence: Chief Officers should be vicariously liable for the actions of their officers.
10. Libel
Meaning: A written and published false statement about someone that damages their reputation.
Sentence: he following year his attacks on the governor of new york led to him being arrested for seditious
libel.
Pair of Words from CSS year 2015
1. Plaintiff
Meaning: Sounding Sad
Sentence: The songs were rendered in a plaintive tone.
2. Plaintive
Meaning: a person who brings a suit into a court of law; complainant
Sentence: A plaintiff must reside in the state one year before filing an application for a divorce.
3. Valet
Meaning: the personal employee of a man who tends to his clothing and personal needs Sentence: And my valet can go in your carriage.
4. Varlet
Meaning: A man or boy acting as an attendant or servant
Sentence: A plaintiff must reside in the state one year before filing an application for a divorce.
5. Monitor
Meaning: Observe and check the progress or quality of (something) over a period of time Sentence: We don’t monitor Canadian crimes.
6. Mentor
Meaning: Advise or train (someone, especially a younger colleague)
Sentence: It’s unfortunate you don’t have a mentor to show you more about your talents.
7. Complacent
Meaning: satisfied; esp., self-satisfied, or smug
Sentence: He was rather complacent on the subject of voter turnout.
8. Complaisant
Meaning: Willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging
Sentence: Because John is too complaisant in his willingness to please others, people often take advantage of him
9. Penitence
Meaning: The condition or quality of being penitent; regret for wrongdoing.
Sentence: Thus we reach what has been called la penitence tarifee.
10. Penance
Meaning: any act of reparation, self-punishment, etc. done in repentance for a sin or wrongdoing
Sentence: The man gave away all of his money to charity as penance for his greed.
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