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SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS What is synonym? Synonyms is a word whose meaning is same as that of another word. What is antonym? Antonym is a word which has the opposite meaning of another word. Words   Synonyms Antonyms    able   competent   unable   accept  admit   refuse  accuse   blame   admire  active   passive  inactive adequate     enough  inadequate  admire  praise  defame  abdicate   abandon  assert   abhor  detest  devotion  authentic   genuine  fictitious  audacious   adventurous  cautious   beg  plead   denote   bad   evil   good   brevity    short   longevity   brutal   sava...

A SHADY PLOT         - ELSIE BROWN 1. So I sat down to write a ghost story.  2. Jenkins was responsible.  3. "Hallock, " he said to me, "give us another on the supernatural this time. Something to give 'them the horrors; that's what the public wants, and your ghosts are live propositions. " 4. Well, I was in no position to contradict Jenkins, for, as yet, his magazine had been the only one to print my stuff. So I had said, "Precisely!" in the deepest voice I was capable of, and had gone out.  5. I had no idea, but at that time it did not worry me at all. You see, I had often been like that before and in the end things had always come my way--I didn't in the least know how or why. It had all been rather mysterious. You understand I didn't specialize in ghost stories, but more or less they seemed to specialize in me. A ghost story had been the first fiction I had written. Curious how that idea for a plot had come to me out of nowhere after I ...

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA                              - A. J. CRONIN 1. As we drove through the foothills of the Alps two small boys stopped us on the outskirts of Verona.  2. They were selling wild strawberries. "Don't buy, " warned Luigi, our cautious driver. "You will get fruit much better in Verona. Besides, these boys...... " 3. He shrugged his shoulders to convey his disapproval of their shabby appearance.   4. One boy was wearing a worn jersey and cut-off khaki pants; the other a shortened army tunic gathered in loose folds about his skinny frame. Yet, gazing at the two little figures, with their brown skins, tangled hair and dark earnest eyes, we felt ourselves strangely attracted. My companion spoke to the boys, discovered that they were brothers. Nicola, the elder, was 13; Jacopo, who barely came up to the door handle of the car, was nearly 12. We bought their biggest basket, then set off towar...

1."Don't run behind people's ambitions. Follow your own path, make your own road, build your own future. Don't imitate your friends. It's not necessary to do what others are doing. Life is all about making choices, where you have to make your decision, walk alone and achieve your goals. " -instantenglishlearning.com 2. "Nurture your strengths daily with faith, hard work and determination with perseverance just like a small sapling does before blooming into a full grown tree. " - instantenglishlearning.com    3. "If you seek peace, stay communion with nature...For it's a selfless entity, devoid of any negative tranquility.." - instantenglishlearning.com

THE ULTIMATE SAFARI       - NADINE GORDIMER  1. That night our mother went to the shop and she didn't come back. Ever. What happened? I don't know. My father also had gone away one day and never came back; but he was fighting in the war. We were in the war, too, but we were children, we were like our grandmother and grandfather, we didn't have guns. The people my father was fighting - the bandits, they are called by our government ran all over the place and we ran away from them like chickens chased by dogs. We didn't know where to go. Our mother went to the shop because someone said you could get some oil for cooking. We were happy because we hadn't tasted oil for a long time; perhaps she got the oil and someone knocked her down in the dark and took that oil from her. Perhaps she met the bandits. If you meet them, they will kill you. Twice they came to our village and we ran and hid in the bush and when they'd gone we came back and found they had taken everythi...