Read the
sentences carefully and then through contextual analysis match the usage of the
highlighted word with its meaning.
Usage of highlighted word
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Meaning
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A
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Yet over the past week, senior UPA government ministers have lunged at Team Anna and at Anna
Hazare himself with all the finesse of a street bully engaged in a bruising
fight to the finish.
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1
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unemotional
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B
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He surpassed
the record set by another genius with a totally contrasting style — the phlegmatic and stolidly calm Björn Borg.
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2
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throw or propel with
great force
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C
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It was difficult to decide who among Ministers Salman Khurshid,
Vayalar Ravi and V. Narayanasami deserved top prize for incivility as they hurled accusations at their civil
society opponents.
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3
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made a sudden thrust
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D
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Mr. Ravi, who holds the Cabinet portfolio of Overseas Indian Affairs, stooped further in calling the Anna movement anti-national and insinuating that Mr. Hazare has “foreign backing”. |
4
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Extreme, irrational
distrust of others
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E
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This pattern of official paranoia
over popular protests is surely ironic considering the government has itself
been accused of selling out to foreign interests.
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5
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lowered or debase
oneself.
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F
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Mr.
Ravi, who holds the Cabinet portfolio of Overseas Indian Affairs, stooped
further in calling the Anna movement anti-national and insinuating that Mr. Hazare has “foreign backing”.
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6
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a person of
independent or unorthodox views
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G
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The movement that caught the nation's imagination barely a year ago
looks woebegone today thanks to
factional fights and a loss of direction.
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7
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Provoking gradual
doubt or suspicion; suggestive
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H
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Crowds have thinned at Anna's protest sites, and the veteran has not
helped himself by teaming up with the maverick
Baba Ramdev.
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8
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worn and broken down
by hard use
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I
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But in the end, it was Rafael Nadal who underlined his brooding and belligerent mastery over
clay by winning his seventh French Open.
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9
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Inclined or eager to
fight; hostile or aggressive.
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J
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But in the end, it was Rafael Nadal who underlined his brooding and belligerent mastery over clay by
winning his seventh French Open.
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10
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exhibiting or
characterized by careful thought
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