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Title Page No.1. Immure 12. Proscribe 23. Quiescent 34. Saki 45. Savant 56. Scrawny 67. Surly 78. Work Out Zone 89. Answers 9

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IMMURE

Immure

Pronunciation: ih-myoor

Unless you‟re a chronically attention starved celebrity, this is one word you would not want to hear. Immure

means to be locked up, often referring to jail time.

Dictionary definitions of immure: 1. To confine within or as if within walls; imprison.

2. To shut (oneself) away from society

Master tips for immure

Immure sounds a lot like I am yours, please enclose me in the walls of your heart and never let go. Thus

immure is trapping someone is a closed space, although it would not be advisable to use this in your next love

letter!

Synonyms:

1. Imprison, incarcerate, jail (verb)

2. Detain, confine - deprive of freedom (verb)

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PROSCRIBE

Proscribe

Pronunciation: proh-skrahyb

Have you ever been proscribed, that is forbid/banned from doing something? Like going out for a late-night

movie or party? This must have happened a lot of times actually. Proscribe means to ban something and not

allow it to happen. And it comes from the Latin root for writing. Yes, it is. How? Read below.

Origin of the word Proscribe:

Proscribe comes from the Latin word prscrbere, which meant „to put up someone's name as outlawed‟. This is

further a combination of pro, which means in front; + scribe, which means to write. Effectively, it was a word

used to banish an exile/outlaw publically.

Usage Examples for Proscribe:

1. No government can proscribe the rights of the citizens.

2. It is unconstitutional for the administration to proscribe the method of protest when it is absolutely peaceful.

Synonyms:

Prohibit: To forbid by authority.

Interdict: To prohibit or place under an ecclesiastical or legal sanction/To forbid or debar, especially

authoritatively.

Forbid: To command (someone) not to do something.

Debar: To exclude or shut out; bar.

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QUIESCENT

Quiescent

The word implies a state of predictably calmness and relaxation. Try recalling the last oil soaked meal you

had, preferably in the afternoon after a long day of work. As the food reaches your growling belly, you‟re in a

quiescent state of mind.

Garfield is synonymous with the word quiescent as he is always unperturbed and stress free living his life,

limiting his desire to simplistic foods & naps.

The dictionary definitions for Quiescent are as follows:

1. Being stationary or at rest. (Adjective)

Masters tips for quiescent:

Break up the word into two: Quie-scent

Quie : quiet = motionless

Scent: Rhymes with decent. Thus quiescent is something that‟s quiet and decent, or calm and at peace.

Usage examples for quiescent:

1. So far, the atmosphere of the meeting is surprisingly quiescent.

2. Without a proper diet, the vigor of an early morning coffee wears down and the body enters into a

quiescent state.

Synonyms:

1.Inactive: Motionless, stationary

2.Quiet : Calm, silent

3.Dormant: Resting, sleeping

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SAKI

Saki

Can make a person dizzy!

Pronunciation:sak-ee, sah-kee

Also written as Sake.

Saki/Sake carries the following dictionary definitions:

1. Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot.

Saki also carries a peculiar meaning. It refers to „any of several monkeys of the genus Pithecia, of tropical

South America, having a golden-brown to black, thick, shaggy coat and a long, bushy, nonprehensile tail.‟ Do

look up their images in google images.

Pop Quiz: Which author had the pen name Saki?

Do look this up as well.

Synonyms:

1. Intoxicant: An agent that intoxicates, especially an alcoholic beverage.

2. Inebriant: Serving to intoxicate.

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SAVANT

Savant

Men of wisdom

Pronunciation: sa-vahnt, sav-uh nt; Fr. sa-vahn

Savants are men of wisdom and knowledge. By men, we mean the whole human race and intend no gender

specific distinction. These are people with an amazing pool of knowledge, men one can turn to at any given

time for one‟s answers. Pretty useful people, aren‟t they?

Savant carries the following dictionary definitions:

1. A person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.

Usage examples for Savant:

1. “An idiot savant is a person with autism that has extraordinary skills in certain domains in spite of cognitive

deficiencies in most others.”- Hall of Flame

2. One often sees savants like him in the library, guzzling down one book after the other.

Synonyms:

Polymath - a person of great and varied learning

Pundit: a learned person, expert, or authority.

Scholar: A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in

one or more disciplines

Intellectual: Possessing or showing intellect or mental capacity,especially to a high degree: an intellectual

person.

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SCRAWNY

Scrawny

Super-thin-ness!

Pronunciation:skraw-nee

We all have a couple of friends that are scrawny by nature. At times, one feels as if they are sick. The best

examples of scrawny creatures are fashion models. You think you have seen the thinnest possible model but

then you are surprised by an even thinner one, or as we should say, a scrawnier one.

Scrawny carries the following dictionary definitions:

1. Excessively thin; lean; scraggy: a long, scrawny neck.

Usage examples for Scrawny:

1. Kids should not be scrawny, they should be plump and robust.

2. Scrawny models walk down the ramp in fashion shows.

Synonyms:

Skinny: Being very thin.

Gaunt: Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.

Emaciated: Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.

Skeletal: Of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton/ Very thin especially from disease or hunger

or cold.

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SURLY

Surly

As some point of time, we are all inclined to indulge in surly behavior; it is just part of the fact that we are

human beings. Surly behavior means being bad tempered and ill-behaved. One is pretty irritable in one‟s

outlook when one is surly. Try to recall the last time when you behaved so.

Surly carries the following dictionary definitions:

1. Churlishly rude or bad-tempered

2. Unfriendly or hostile; menacingly irritable: a surly old lion.

3. Dark or dismal; menacing; threatening:

Usage examples for Surly:

1. Restaurants often have surly waiters.

2. In zoos, we get to see surly old lions locked up in cages (the last place on earth they should be in fact).

3. The clouds today make the sky look surly, be prepared for some heavy downpours.

Synonyms:

1. Churlish: rude or surly.

2. Boorish: Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.

3. Brusque: Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt.

4. Gruff: 1. Brusque or stern in manner or appearance: a gruff reply.

2. Hoarse; harsh: a gruff voice.

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Work Out Zone

Work Out 1: Match the following words with their respective meanings or synonyms.

Word Meaning or Synonym

1 Immure A Forbid

2 Proscribe B Pundit

3 Quiescent C Dormant

4 Saki D Jailed

5 Savant E Churlish

6 Scrawny F Alcohol

7 Surly G Skinny

Work Out 2: Did you really understand the word? 1. Criminals are immured. yes no

2. Well-mannered children are constantly proscribed. yes no

3. Saints like their moments of quiescence. yes no

4. Scrawny girls are fat. yes no

5. Surly employees are tough to handle. yes no

6. Teachers should sip a bottle or two of saki before class. yes no

7. Savant men are the ones that should be followed. yes no

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Answers: Work Out Zone

Work Out 1 1-D, 2-A, 3-C, 4-F, 5-B, 6-G, 7-E Work Out 2 1-yes, 2-no, 3-yes, 4-no, 5-yes, 6-no, 7-yes