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Bashful (bash’fl): shy and easily embarrassed

Synonyms - timid, constrained, reticent

Antonyms - aggressive, bold impudent

— Being bashful, she restrains herself from talking freely with her colleagues.

Arbitrary (arbi-trerri):: based on personal opinion or impulse.

Synonyms - discretionary, subjective, personal.

Antonyms - judicious, objective, rational

— The selection of the new employees seems to be arbitrary.

Confront (kun-frunt): to face somebody or something.

Synonyms - accost, encounter

Antonyms - avoid, evade

— The employer confronted a mob of angry workers

Fortitude (fortiteud): the courage to face danger and difficulties

Synonyms - courage, strength

Antonyms - cowardice, fearfulness

— She has borne all her difficulties with fortitude.

Schism (sizum): strong disagreement within an organisation, especially a religious one.

Synonyms - discord, breach, rift

Antonyms - accord, unison, harmony.

— There is a definite threat of schism within the government.

Manifest (mani’fest): to show something clearly.

Synonyms - display, exhibit, express

Antonyms - conceal, deny, refute

— She manifested great interest towards her children.

Discover

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Looking back

To be the monarch of all one surveys is to be in complete control and triumph over a situation. The expression comes from a poem by Couper in which a ship-wrecked mariner states:

"I am monarch of all survey,

My right there is none to dispute

From the center all round to the sea,

I am the lord of the fowl and the brute."

Ponder

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are both immortal and divine. — Milton

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Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Enid Blyton, Lewis Carol, Roald Dahl, Kenneth Graham.

— Illa Vij