Match up Exercise June 24

Read the sentences carefully and then through contextual analysis match the usage of the highlighted word with its meaning.

	Usage of highlighted word		Meaning
A	Overawed as the BJP and its spiritual mentor are by Mr. Modi, they also know that his hegemony cannot be questioned and a party led by him will be a one-man show.	1	To make fun, mock
B	Then unprovoked, he swung at Nitish Kumar, lampooning Bihar’s caste preoccupations and contrasting its backwardness with Gujarat’s material superiority.	2	Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing. (using lofty words or ideas)
C	He also showed that despite Gujarat’s bombastic claim as a red hot destination for Foreign Direct Investment, it was unsung Maharashtra that was the leader in this department.	3	the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others
D	Building in a lack of capacity and making the process as arduous as possible, whether deliberately or through benign neglect, allows many opportunities for rent extraction and out-of-turn favours.	4	To increase, enlarge, or intensify
E	There is something odd about the escalating row around Narendra Modi’s prime ministerial ambitions.	5	To make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate.
F	Ironically, the oft refurbished, state-of-the-art disaster management cell is on the fifth floor.	6	Demanding great effort or labor; difficult
G	It was on his suggestion that the court desisted from offering its own opinion on the SIT’s findings, though critics have read into this a judicial reluctance to comment on Mr. Modi’s culpability.	7	An organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution of a minority group
H	Mr. Modi first vanquished Nitin Gadkari who had mistakenly assumed that his dominion as party chief extended to Chhote Sardar.	8	To put down or suppress forcibly and completely
I	A further complication awaits Mr. Modi. He is not out of the woods on the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom though the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team has filed a closure report in the case.	9	To defeat or conquer in battle; subjugate.
J	Internally, there is already considerable unease over his intolerance — evident in the way he quashed Mr. Joshi for the rest of the party to watch and learn a lesson from.	10	a state of guilt