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IDIOMS AND PHRASES

• Halcyon days – peaceful days;

After retirement we are planning for halcyon days.

• Days of reckoning – a time when the effects of one’s past

mistakes or misdeed catch up with one;

You have been manipulating the account for a long time, now
you days of reckoning have come.
• Dead drunk – completely drunk;
He came dead drunk late at night

• Dead loss – a complete loss;

The books soiled in rain are a dead loss to a bookseller.

• At dead of night – at midnight;

The thieves stole away the whole cash at dead of night.
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• Dockyard Place where ships are built and maintained.

• Dogma Belief accepted without question.

• Domicile Person living permanently in a certain place.

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Place where one lives permanently.

• Dormitory Sleeping room with many beds.

• Dorsal Situated on bank.

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Embroil (Vt) –

Synonyms: Complicate, Confound, Confuse, Disorder, Disturb,

Embrangle, Enmesh, Entangle, Implicate, Intricate,
Involve, Muddle.
Antonyms: Compose, Disembarrass, Disengage, Disentangle,
Extricate, Free, Liberate, Relieve, Remove, Rescue,
Withdraw.
Ex- His stand on this issue has embroiled him in
controversy.
Eliminate (Vt) –

Synonyms: Discharge, Dislodge, Eject, Expel, Get rid of, Oust,

Remove, Set aside, Suppress, Take away.

Antonyms: Accept, Approve, Hold, Keep, Maintain, Preserve,

Ratify, Replace, Restore, Retain, Sanction.

Ex- Doctors seek to eliminate the causes of the epidemic.

Envision (Vt) –

Synonyms: Behold, Consider, Contemplate, Envisage, Foresee,

Meditate, Observe, Picture (In the mind), Plan, Ponder,
Think, Visualize.
Antonyms: Disregard, Ignore, Neglect, Overlook, Pass over, Pay no
attention to, Reject, Set aside, Shut one’s eyes to, Take
no notice of.
Ex- The inventor envisioned many uses for his creation.
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• Uncanny/

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