CSS Past Papers of Solved Pair of Words English (Précis and Composition) 2007

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Affluence:
Meaning: having a lot of money or owning a lot of things
Sentence: What we are seeing increasingly is a society of private affluence and public squalor.

Effluence:
Meaning: a thing that flows out or forth
Sentence: How can Reef Entertainment justify releasing this effluence on the general public?

Wretch:
Meaning: a person who experiences something unpleasant
Sentence: A gentleman said that a week ago he was the wretch in the county, but now saved.

Retch:
Meaning: to react in a way as if you are vomiting Sentence: The sight of blood makes him retch.

Euphemistic:
Meaning: a word or phrase used to avoid saying an unpleasant or offensive word Sentence: 'Senior citizen' is a euphemism for 'old person'.

Euphuistic:
Meaning: Affected elegance of language. Sentence: Euphuistic style has been used in many of his writings.

Amoral:
Meaning: without moral principles Sentence: The spies are younger, less jaded but equally cynical and still operating in a wholly amoral world.

Immoral:
Meaning: morally wrong Sentence: It's an immoral tax, because the poor will pay relatively more.

Imperial:
Meaning: belonging or relating to an empire or the person or country that rules it
Sentence: Delhi is a city of two centers, comprising imperial Lutyens architecture and numerous monuments to the Moghul Empire.
Imperious:
Meaning: unpleasantly proud and expecting obedience
Sentence: He sent them away with an imperious wave of the hand.

Degrade:
Meaning: to lower in rank or status
Sentence: He likes to degrade people by calling them embarrassing names.

Denigrate:
Meaning: to say that someone or something is not good or important
Sentence: You shouldn't denigrate people just because they have different beliefs from you.

Temporal:
Meaning: relating to practical matters or physical things, rather than spiritual ones Sentence: Her starting point: 'The future is the only temporal area over which people have power’.

Temporary:
Meaning: not lasting or needed for very long Sentence: The ceasefire will only provide a temporary solution to the crisis.

Precipitate:
Meaning: to make something happen suddenly or sooner than expected
Sentence: Fear of losing her job precipitated her into action.

Precipitous:
Meaning: sheer
Sentence: Precipitous slopes of Reid's Ridge are