Vocabulary Test...

Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word / words.
I do not want you to lead a life of sycophancy as you did during the foreign rule. 

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Direction for questions 76 and 77: Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given below.
ATROCITY 

Identify the figure of speech employed in the sentence:

The teacher fails the test.

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The President gets wounded when a bullet ricochets off his bulletproof car and into his arm.

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He is extremely meticulous in his approach.

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He gave me a counterfeit coin.

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The confusion on the interlocutor's face was gratifying.

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Direction for questions 76 and 77: Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word given below.
COMMISERATE

Identify the figure of speech employed in the sentence:

The cobbler's children have no shoes.