Pair of Words from CSS year 2001

Brooch:

Meaning: a small piece of jewelry with a pin at the back that is fastened to a woman's clothes

Sentence: She wore a small silver brooch.

Broad:

Meaning: very wide

Sentence: We walked down a broad avenue lined with trees.

Collision:

Meaning: an accident that happens when two vehicles hit each other with force

Sentence: There has been a collision on the southbound stretch of the motorway.

Collusion:

Meaning: agreement between people to act together secretly or illegally in order to deceive or cheat someone

Sentence: It is thought that they worked in collusion with the terrorist network.

Fain:

Meaning: glad; ready

Sentence: He is fain to do all things himself.

Feign:

Meaning: to pretend to feel something, usually an emotion

Sentence: You know how everyone feigns surprise when you tell them how old you are.

Hoard:

Meaning: to collect large amounts of something and keep it in a safe, often secret, place Sentence: During the siege people began hoarding food and supplies.

Horde:

Meaning: a large group of people

Sentence: Hordes of students on bikes made crossing the road difficult.

Illusion:

Meaning: an idea or belief which is not true

Sentence: He had no illusions about his talents as a singer.

Delusion:

Meaning: when someone believes something that is not true

Sentence: He's under the delusion that he will be promoted this year.

Persecute:

Meaning: to treat someone unfairly or cruelly over a long period of time because of their race, religion, or political beliefs or to annoy someone by refusing to leave them alone

Sentence: Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.

Prosecute:

Meaning: to officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a court of law, or (of a lawyer) to try to prove that a person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime

Sentence: He was prosecuted for fraud.

Prescribe:

Meaning: to say what medical treatment someone should have

Sentence: The drug is often prescribed for ulcers.

Proscribe:

Meaning: to not allow something

Sentence: The Athletics Federation has banned the runner from future races for using proscribed drugs.

Respectfully:

Meaning: in a way that shows you want to be polite or honor someone Sentence: As the body was carried through the crowd, people drew back respectfully.

Respectively:

Meaning: relating or belonging to each of the separate people or things you have just mentioned Sentence: In the 200 meters, Lizzy and Sarah came first and third respectively.

Complacent:

Meaning: Satisfied

Sentence: We can't afford to become complacent about any of our products.

Complaisant:

Meaning: willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging

Sentence: Can we really sit back and watch the suffering of a whole nation and be so complaisant?

Corporal:

Meaning: of the human body; bodily; physical:

Sentence: Nowadays it is not the custom to inflict corporal punishment in schools.

Corporeal:

Meaning: Of a material nature; tangible.

Sentence: Corporeal need such as food and drink should receive due measure of attention.