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Notes Promulgate (announce officially a decree or a law): A nee law is promulgated by the new
government.
30. Doubt (incline to disbelieve): Please, don’t doubt my word.
Suspect (have an idea or feeling [concerning the possibility or likelihood]): I suspect that he is a
liar.
31. Difficulty (quality of being difficult): Do you have any difficulty in understanding the lectures
in History?
Hardship (severe suffering): The soldiers bear hardship during a war without complaining.
32. Disaster (great or sudden misfortune): His over-confidence had led him to disaster.
Catastrophe (final and unhappy event that brings a change): His failure in the examination was
a catastrophe.
33. Desire (long for; want something earnestly): I desire to possess immense wealth.
Want (wish for something lacking or absent): I don’t want such friends who meddle in my
affairs.
Need (need something that is lacking and necessary): We need nutritive food for good health.
Wish (have a desire that cannot be fulfilled): I wish I were a bird.
34. Distress (subjected to strain, anxiety or unhappiness): Brutus was much distressed to hear the
news of his wife’s death.
Suffering (subjected to pain, loss, grief, punishment, wrong etc.) I have been suffering from
fever for the last two days.
Agonize (subjected to unbearable physical or mental anguish): She was greatly agonized at her
child’s sufferings.
35. Envy (feeling of ill-will at another’s better fortune): Her friend was filled with envy at her success.
Jealousy (feeling of ill-will because of possible or actual loss of rights or love): Othello’s jealousy
made him to strangle his beloved wife.
36. Error (deviation from correct or accurate result): Brutus suffered on account of this error of
judgement.
Mistake (wrong idea or act): We all make mistakes occasionally.
Blunder (stupid or careless mistake): The student was punished for committing blunders.
Lapse (slight error in speech or behaviour): He is criticized for his lapse from virtue.
37. Expect (think or believe that something will come or happen): I expect that she will come today.
Hope (expectation of something desired): I live in hopes of better times.
38. Event (happening usually something important or memorable): The last two years in India have
been full of events.
Incident (event but of less importance): The incidents of theft have now become common in the
metropolitan cities.
Accident (happening unfortunate and undesirable): Many passengers died in a recent terrible
railway accident.
39. False (untrue or incorrect): He is false to his word.
Wrong (not morally right): Two wrongs don’t make a right.
40. Forbid (not allow something to be used or done): God forbade Adam to eat the apple of the tree
of knowledge.
Prohibit (forbid an action by rules or regulations): In schools and colleges, smoking is strictly
prohibited.
Ban (order with authority that something must not be done): The censor-board has banned the
latest multi-starred film.

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