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5 Words A Day: High Frequency Words For Competitive Exams

The document discusses 15 high frequency words - antipathy, apathy, arbitrate, archaic, ardor - and provides the meaning, an example sentence, related words and synonyms/antonyms for each word. It also includes 15 fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice questions to test understanding of the words.

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5 Words A Day: High Frequency Words For Competitive Exams

The document discusses 15 high frequency words - antipathy, apathy, arbitrate, archaic, ardor - and provides the meaning, an example sentence, related words and synonyms/antonyms for each word. It also includes 15 fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice questions to test understanding of the words.

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5 WORDS A DAY
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

ANTIPATHY
◦ Meaning: extreme dislike
◦ Example: The ANTIPATHY between the French and the English regularly
erupted into open warfare.
◦ Words with similar meanings:
◦ ANIMOSITY ANIMUS ANTAGONISM
AVERSION ENMITY HOSTILITY
REPELLENCE
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

APATHY
◦ Meaning: lack of interest or emotion
◦ Example: The APATHY of voters is so great that less than half the people
who are eligible to vote actually bother to do so.
◦ Words with similar meanings:
COOLNESS DISINTEREST DISREGARD
IMPASSIVITY INDIFFERENCE INSENSIBILITY
LASSITUDE LETHARGY LISTLESSNESS
PHLEGM STOLIDITY UNCONCERN
UNRESPONSIVENESS.
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

ARBITRATE
◦ Meaning: to judge a dispute between two opposing parties
◦ Example: Since the couple could not come to agreement, a judge was
forced to ARBITRATE their divorce proceedings.
◦ Related words:
◦ ARBITRATION: a process by which a conflict is resolved
◦ ARBITRATOR: a judge
◦ Words with similar meanings:
ADJUDGE ADJUDICATE DECIDE
DETERMINE JUDGE MODERATE
REFEREE RULE
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

ARCHAIC
◦ Meaning: ancient, old-fashioned
◦ Example: Her ARCHAIC Commodore computer could not run the latest software.
◦ Related words:
◦ ARCHAISM: an outdated word or phrase
◦ Words with similar meanings:
ANCIENT ANTEDILUVIAN ANTIQUE
BYGONE DATED DOWDY
FUSTY OBSOLETE OLD-FASHIONED
OUTDATED OUTMODED PASSE
PREHISTORIC STALE SUPERANNUATED
SUPERSEDED VINTAGE
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

ARDOR
◦ Meaning: intense and passionate feeling
◦ Example: Bishop's ARDOR for landscape was evident when he
passionately described the beauty of the scenic Hudson Valley.
◦ Related words:
◦ ARDENT: expressing ardor; passionate
◦ Words with similar meanings:
DEVOTION ENTHUSIASM FERVENCY
FERVIDITY FERVIDNESS FERVOR
FIRE PASSION ZEAL
ZEALOUSNESS
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

Fill in the Blank


1
The source of my _________ is my ex-husband’s new wife!

a. Antipathy
b. Antagonistic
c. Aghast
d. Quixotic attitude
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

What is the one word for the given


meaning?
2
a feeling of strong dislike, opposition, or anger.

a. Aggrandize
b. Arbore
c. Antipathy
d. Ascetic
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

What is the one word for the given


meaning?
3
To decide the outcome of the issue with people at loggerheads.

a. Subjugate
b. Desist
c. Resist
d. Arbitrate
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

Which of the following is not the


antonym of “Antipathy”?
4
a. Amiability
b. Comity
c. Amity
d. Loath
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

Fill in the Blank


5
The best way to cure __________ in schools is by inspiring students.

a. Exuberance
b. Melancholy
c. Swarthy
d. Apathy
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

What is the one word for the given


meaning?
6
Complete absence of consideration in someone or something

a. Abhor
b. Astonishment
c. Stoutness
d. Apathy
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

Fill in the Blank


7
The council will _________ among the interest groups.

a. Bargain
b. Reiterate
c. Negotiate
d. Arbitrate
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

Fill in the Blank


8
When I mentioned to my children that I still had videotapes, they were
unfamiliar with the __________ movie format.

a. Hedonist
b. Epicure
c. Latin
d. Archaic
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

Which of the following is not the


antonym of “Ardor”?
9
a. Composure
b. Taciturnity
c. Reticence
d. torridity
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

What is the one word for the given


meaning?
10
having passed its time of use or usefulness

a. Rusticate
b. Extricated
c. Archaic
d. Passed on
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

Which of the following is not the


synonym of “Apathy”?
11
a. Heedlessness
b. Passivity
c. Insouciance
d. balminess
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

Fill in the Blank


12
Candidates for citizenship reciting the oath of allegiance to the United
States with all the _____________ that they could muster

a. Interest
b. Respect
c. Ardor
d. Fervor
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

Which of the following is not the


synonym of “Archaic”?
13
a. Passé
b. Superannuated
c. Antiquarian
d. Oblivious
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

What is the one word for the given


meaning?
14
An often restless or transitory warmth of feeling.

a. Bastion
b. Haddon
c. Astuteness
d. Ardor
High Frequency Words for Competitive Exams

Which of the following is not the


antonym of “Arbitrate”?
15
a. Agitate
b. Adjudicate
c. Let Ride
d. Equivocate

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