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🌸The gift of the gab🌸
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🟢Meaning

If you've got the gift of the gab, or the gift of gab, you have the natural ability to talk in a way that people find entertaining or persuasive.

🔵For example

🔸All good salespeople have the gift of the gab, so people trust them and believe whatever they say.

🔸If you want to be a politician, you'll do much better if you were born with the gift of gab.

🟣Note:

👉🏻"The gift of the gab" is used more in British and Australian English, while "the gift of gab" is used more in American English.


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🦁The lion's share🦁
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🟢Meaning

You can say something is the lion's share if it's the biggest share or portion of something.

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🔸The lion's share of the government's budget goes to the military, when it could be spent on useful things like education, health care and looking after the environment.

🔸The company executives decided to give the lion's share of the company's profits to themselves, in the form of very high salaries, huge bonuses and very generous expense accounts. Not much was left over for staff wages and the shareholders.

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Forwarded from Std. 10 English
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Use of gerunds in various ways : cooking
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👉 After a preposition:
I’m fond of cooking.

👉 After a stative verb:
I like cooking.

👉 After possessive adjective:
My cooking is delicious.

👉 After apostrophe 'S' :
I like Alka's cooking.

👉 As a subject:
Cooking is fantastic !

👉 As an object:
I love cooking.

👉 As an adjective:
I have cleaned my cooking place.

👉 As an adjective phrase:
I saw a girl cooking on a farm.

👉 As a noun phrase:
Cooking in a tent is very dangerous.
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1. MONUMENTAL (ADJECTIVE): (स्मरणार्थ): huge 
Synonyms: great, enormous 
Antonyms: small 
Example Sentence: Monumental efforts have been made to control the spread of virus. 


2. DEVASTATE (VERB): (तबाह करना): shatter 
Synonyms: shock, stun 
Antonyms: enrich 
Example Sentence: Ekta was entirely devastated due to the loss of her soon. 


3. CONSTRAINT (NOUN): (बाध्यता): inhibition 
Synonyms: uneasiness, embarrassment 
Antonyms: openness 
Example Sentence: They would be able to talk without constraint. 


4.CHAOTIC (ADJECTIVE): (अस्तव्यस्त): disorderly 
Synonyms: disordered, disorganized 
Antonyms: orderly 
Example Sentence: The circumstances in the economy are chaotic. 


5. DELIBERATION (NOUN): (सावधानी): care 
Synonyms: caution, slowness 
Antonyms: haste 
Example Sentence: Rajesh replaced the glass on the table with deliberation. 


6. DISTRACTION (NOUN): (व्याकुलता): frenzy 
Synonyms: hysteria, madness 
Antonyms: calm 
Example Sentence: It is her uncharacteristic air of distraction which attracts people. 


7. AWFUL (ADJECTIVE): (भद्दा): disgusting 
Synonyms: nasty, terrible 
Antonyms: lovely 
Example Sentence: Many people look awful when they cry. 


8. SEVERE (ADJECTIVE): (गंभीर): acute 
Synonyms: serious, grave 
Antonyms: minor 
Example Sentence: We have a severe shortage of technicians. 


9. RELATIVE (ADJECTIVE): (उचित): moderate 
Synonyms: reasonable, considerable 
Antonyms: great 
Example Sentence: Vaishali went down the steps into the relative darkness of the dining room. 


10. BELIE (VERB): (झुठलाना): contradict 
Synonyms: give the lie to, disprove 
Antonyms: tesify to 
Example Sentence: His lively, alert manner belied his years. 
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