Match up Exercise Apr 25

Match the usage of the highlighted word with its meaning.

	Usage of highlighted word		Meaning
A	Now the US views India as a strategic partner with growing economic and political clout that will contribute to promoting security and stability in Asia.	1	Morally rigorous and strict
B	The ruckus about the remarks made by chief economic adviser Kaushik Basu, to the effect that major economic reforms are stalled till the next general elections, may just have had positive fallout.	2	power or influence, esp in politics
C	Step by step this charade unfolds in a predictable fashion.	3	A guess or assumption
D	Worse still, the government has further exposed its lack of ingenuity and leadership with its meek response	4	speech or discourse that pretends to significance but lacks true meaning
E	However, the past 20 years have seen the more puritanical Wahabis like Ahle Hadith make rapid inroads in the state	5	Inventive skill or imagination; cleverness.
F	Its disbelief that some of these witnesses could have hidden in close proximity to the village and watched the massacre is at best a questionable conjecture.	6	a piece of ridiculous and obvious pretence
G	Mr. Sarkozy can be expected to intensify his anti-immigrant rhetoric in the hope of ensuring that enough of Ms Le Pen's supporters come out on May 6.	7	A disturbance; a commotion