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What nature taught me today... From :khirkiya...Narinder Singh Kapoor
Painstaking' * Part Of Speech — Adjective. * Adverb — Painstakingly. * Pronunciation — * Pains as usual, pains, * taking as usual, taking. * Meaning — * With great care and attention, and a lot of efforts. * Etymology — * The word painstaking has been derived from the English words pain and taking. * Mnemonic — * If you take a lot of pain and efforts to complete a project, it means that it was a painstaking endeavour. * Sentences — * His thesis has made him undergo a painstaking journey. (Adjective, with great care and attention, and a lot of efforts) * She works assiduously as she wants to complete her painstaking research soon. (Adjective, with great care and attention, and a lot of efforts) * The tome is a painstakingly written book with a smorgasbord of facts. (Adverb, carefully, and correctly with efforts) * The police officials conducted a painstaking investigation but they couldn't catch the astute thief red-handed. (Adjective, with great care and attention, and a lot of efforts) * She has become a painstaking virtuoso in her field because of her perseverance. (Adjective, with great care and attention, and a lot of efforts) * Painstaking study always bears fruit as it enhances the horizons of knowledge. (Adjective, with great care and attention, and a lot of efforts) * Synonyms — careful, thorough, earnest, meticulous, etc. * Antonyms — half-hearted, careless, negligent, etc. * Quick revision of previously learnt words — * Assiduously — with intense efforts. * Tome — a large book. * Smorgasbord — a large collection of something * Idom :High and mighty * Meaning — * One who behaves as if he were superior. * Sentences — * He is high and mighty and never gives ear to anyone's advice. (One who behaves as if he were superior) * Gives ear to — pays heed to. * She is high and mighty and insults others off and on. (One who behaves as if he were superior) * Off and on — frequently. * The new dress suited her to a nicety and she started behaving like a high and mighty person. (One who behaves as if he were superior) * To a nicety — perfectly. * He cleaned the room, put up the wall hangings, the whole nine yards and never behaved like a high and mighty one. (One who behaves as if he were superior) * The whole nine yards — entire thing. * * Phrasal verb #Cut out * Meaning — * To stop functioning. * Sentences — * The car kept cutting out and they couldn't begin the journey. (Wasn't functioning) * The pen had cut out and be had to get a new one. (Stopped functioning) * You should buy a new watch if this cuts out. (Stopped functioning) * They bought a new television set as the old one kept cutting out. (Wasn't functioning)
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