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Daily
English Dose
21.04.2024
21.04.2024 Quiz 06 answers
Word of the day
Grammar tip
5 Idioms and their uses
5 foreign-words and their uses
Quiz of the day – Set 07
1. It is high time you started your preparation seriously – No error

2. Ramen and I waved hello to Each other .

3. The adjective form of the “Bell” - tintinnabulation

4. A murder of crows.

5. He came later than his boss.

6. The adjective form of “North” - Boreal

7. Find the Synonym for WELSHER - Cheat

8. The boat turned over throwing the people into water.

9. A person who is physically strong. - Brawny

10. Find the antonym for - AMBROSIAL - Tasteless

 Word of the day: Nonplussed

Synonyms!

Perplexed

Bewildered

Baffled

Confused
He was nonplussed by the unexpected turn of
Flustered
events, unsure of how to react.
dumbfounded
 YET STILL

• Situations that started

• To ask if something
in the past and
one expected
continue to the present
has happened.
time.

Ex:
Ex:
Have you finished your
She still hasn’t answered
homework yet?
my email.
Is dinner ready yet? I am
My brother still lives in
starving.
England.
Let’s try! Match the idioms with their suitable meanings...

Raining cats and dogs A quarrelsome life

Flog a dead horse Straight from the authority

A cat and dog life Waste one’s efforts

Smell a rat Raining heavily

From a horse’s mouth To become suspicious

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Let’s try! Match the foreign words with their suitable meanings...

Albeit Private car driver

Vice versa Mother institution

Tour de force Triumph

Alma mater Although

Chauffeur The other way around

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 Raining cats and dogs Raining heavily A cat and dog life A quarrelsome life
After two years of marriage,
"When I left the house this
morning, it was raining cats and
they have started
dogs, so I had to run to avoid leading a cat
getting soaked." and dog life. From a horse’s
Flog a mouth
dead horse

"I heard the news From a reliable

directly from a source/ straight
To waste from the
horse's mouth, so I
one’s efforts authority
know it's true."

"He kept trying to fix the Smell a rat

old computer, but it was
like flogging a dead horse."
To become suspicious
"When she said she didn't eat the
cookies, I smelled a rat because
crumbs were on her face."
 Albeit Although Tour de force Triumph
“His performance in the play
"Albeit it was raining, we was a tour de force,
still decided to go for a captivating the
walk." audience from
start to finish." Alma mater
Vice versa

"After graduating
"I enjoy listening from Harvard, he remained Mother
to music while loyal to his alma mater, institution
The other working, and vice attending alumni events and
way versa, I sometimes work supporting the university's
around better when there's programs."
background music."
chauffeur

Private car driver

"My chauffeur will pick us up from the

airport and drive us to the hotel."
1. System for catching criminals is - ( Dragnet / Hyperbole/ Embrocation /Liniment)

2. John’s teeth are as white as ………… (Chalk/ snow / cloud /milk)

3. “All agog” means – (Restless / Everybody /All ready /Almighty )

4. Find the error: The sad story (a) / moved us all (b) / with tears (c) / no error (d)

5. Find the antonym for PROCASTINATE (experiment/ expedite/ exclude/ propagate)

6. Strangely, her name did not occur ……….. me on the second meeting. (in /to /at /no preposition required )

7. Abnormal desire to murder is – (Homicidomania/ Callomania / Ablutomania / Dipsomania)

8. Find the synonym for ECSTATIC (animated/ bewildered/ enraptured /wilful)

9. Find the error : In fine, the post office (a) / compensated us (b) / for the loss (c) / no error (d)

10. Don’t look a gift horse in the ……. (Face/ head/ tummy/ mouth)
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