Idioms & Phrases

 Idioms & Phrases

Revision set -1
Compiled by : RP MISHRA
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SSC/CGL/CPO/NDA/CDS

1. Get the jitters: To experience a temporary state of nervous anxiety or anticipation

2. French leave: An absence or departure from some place or event without ceremony, permission, or announcement.

3. Take a stand: To publicly assert one’s unyielding support of, defense of, or opposition to something.

4. Cut and run: By extension, to leave a situation or arrangement as soon as things go awry.

5. Cut the cord: cease to rely on someone or something influential or supportive and begin to act independently.

6. Cupboard love: Love that is ultimately motivated by greed.

7. Around the corner: Imminent or likely to happen very soon.

8. With a heavy heart: a feeling of unhappiness, in a state of grief.

9. Cost a bomb: To be very expensive.

10. Roll your sleeves up: To do or get ready to do something difficult, intense, or demanding.

11. Be in eclipse: To be dwindling in success or popularity.

12.  Ways and means: The methods by which something is accomplished or attained, especially in relation to finances.

13.Up in arms: Very upset or angry about something.

14.  Big ticket: Very expensive.

15.  Bolt from the blue: Something unexpected or surprising.

16.  Be a law unto yourself: To do whatever one desires and/or ignore rules and regulations. - behave in a manner that is not conventional or predictable.

17. Spiff up: To make someone, something, or oneself appear more visually attractive, appealing, or fashionable. -to polish and groom something very well; to make something clean and tidy.

18. Run wild: To behave or run around in a wild, unruly, out-of-control manner; to be or become crazy or chaotic.

19.Wind down: to slow something down; to make something less hectic.

20. Mellow out: To relax; to calm down. 

 Abbreviations Associated With Computer

CCAC- Centre for Development of Advanced Parallel computing   

C-DOT- Centre for Development of Telematics

HTTP- HyperText Transfer Protocol

ROM- Read Only Memory

RAM- Random Access Memory

BIOS- Basic Input-Output System

MODEM- Modulation-Demodulation

CAD-Computer Aided Design

PSTN-Public Switched Telephone Network

PSPDN-Packet Switched Public Data Network

RABMN- Remote Area Business Message Network

LAN- Local Area Network

WAN - Wide Area Network

MAN- Metropolitan Area Network

CDMA- Code Division Multiple Access

GAIS- Gateway Internet Access Service

E-Mail - Electronic Mail

CD- Compact Disc

LDU-Liquid Display Unit

CPU -Central Processing Unit

CAM- Computer Aided Manufacturing

CATScan- Computerised Axial Tomography Scan

COBOL-Common Business Oriented Language

COMAL- Common Algorithmic Language

DOS- Disc Operating System

DTS- Desktop System

DTP- Desktop Publishing

E-Commerce -Electronic Commerce

ENIAC- Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator

FAX-  Facsimile Automated Xerox

FLOPS- Floating Operations Per Second

FORTRAN - Formula Translation

HLL- High Level Language

HTML- HyperText Markup Language

IBM- International Business Machine

IC-Integrated Circuit

IP-Internet Protocol

ISH -International Super Highway

LISP- List Processing

LLL-  Low Level Language

MICR- Magnetic Ink Character Recognition/Reader

MIPS- Million Instructions Per Second

MOPS- Million Operations Per Second

MPU- Microprocessor Unit

NICNET- National Informatics Centre Network

OMR -Optical Mark Reader/Recognition

PC-DOS Personal Computer Disk Operation System

PROM-Programmable Read Only Memory

SNOBOL- String Oriented symbolic Language

UPS-Uninterruptible Power Supply

VDU- Visual Display Unit

VLSI- Very Large Scale Integration

WWW- World Wide Web

 SYNONYM #2

1. Standstill -  Impasse 


2. clear  -   palpable


3. Alert   -   Vigilant


4. strong -  vehement


5. skillful - adept


6. grace - poise


7. original- primordial


8. smile -simper


9. miniature - diminutive


10. formal - ceremonious


11. trace- vestige


12. subsist - survive


13. contrite. - Sorry 


14. motivate - galvanize, Inspire


15. boredom - ennui


16. gather  -glean


17. ease -  leisure


18. matrimonial - connubial. 


19. mislead - delude


20. enthusiastic - avid.


21.  showy - ostentatious. 

22. Indefensible - untenable

 SYNONYMS

SSC GD/ BANKING / AIR FORCE

1. give→bestow.

2. Letter → missive 

3. Venal → corrupt

4. gauche → awkward

5. Save→ salvage

6. relevant → pertinent

7. Sleep→doze

8. Vacant→ empty

9. Combine → synthesize

10. sensible → Prudent

11. charm  →   charisma

12. beg →implore

13. Prestige → Cachet 

Carry Cachet - How this sugar саrrу product came to carry cachet with health-conscious consumer is one of the mysteries of artifuel branding

14. select→cull  [ carefully culling books]

 15. Prolific →  productive

16. curtail→shorten
[Curtails the use of plastic]

17. explosive →   volatile
[Volatile Situation]
grew up during an extremely volatile  chapter in the city's history.  

 ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION

1. A person who maliciously destroys by fire
(a) Antagonist
(6) Activist
(c) Terrorist
(d) Incendiary
2. A house for storing grains
(a) Cellar
(6) Store
(e) Godown
(d) Granary
3. A person very hard to please
(a) Obstinate
(6) Unconquerable
(c) Fastidious
(d) Invincible
4. A person claiming to be superior in
culture and intellect to others
(a) Intellectual
(b) Aristocrat
(c) Elite
(d) Highbrow
5. One who totally abstains from alcoholic drinks
(a) Puritan
(6) Samaritan
(c) Pedant
(d) Teetotaller
6. A name adopted by an author in his
writings
(a) Title
(b) Nomenclature
(c) Nickname
(d) Pseudonym
7. The line which a plough cuts in the
ground
(a) Vale
(6) Trench
(c) Furrow
(d) Trough
8. A man who pays too much attention to his clothes and personal appearance
(a) Snob
(b) Duffer
(c) Dandy
(d) Licentious
9. A person who forsakes religion
(a) Charlatan
(6) Apostle
(c) Renegade
(d) Apotheosis
10. Of unknown and unadmitted authorship
(a) Gullible
(b) Anonymous
(c) Unanimous
(d) Vexation
11. Contempt of God
(a) Athesim
(6) Nihilism
(c) Blasphemy
(d) Agnosticism
12. Person holding a scholarship at a
university
(a) Intellectual
(b) Pedant
(c) Scholar
(d) Bursar
13 A person concerned with practical results
and values
(a) Plagiarist
(b) Realist
(c) Pragmatist
(d) Fundamentalist
14. Member of a band of robbers
(a) Dacoit
(b) Brigand
(c) Thief
(d) Pirate
15. A person without manners or polish
(c) Rustic
(6) Naive
(c) Boorish
(d) Barbarian
16. A speech by an actor at the end of a play
(a) Epilogue
(b) Monologue
(c) Duologue
(d) Prologue
17. Responsible according to law
(a) Liable
(6) Eligible
(c) Legalised
(b) Legitimate
18. A funny imitation of a poem
(a) Counterfeit
(b) Sonnet
(c) Caricature
(d) Parody
19. Decision made upon a political question by the votes of all qualified persons
(a) Veto
(b) Suffrage
(c) Plebiscite
(d) Franchise
20. Wistful longing for something one has known in the past
(a) Hysteria
(b) Megalomania
(c) Nostalgia
(d) Logomania
21. A person who is made to bear the blame due to others
(a) Innocent
(b) Scapegoat
(c) Ignoramus
(d) Nincompoop