✅221). Hedge (Noun)
👉Definition: a way of protecting oneself against
financial loss or other adverse circumstances.
👉Synonyms:
safeguard, protection, shield, screen, guard, buffer, cus
hion
👉Usage: index-linked gilts are a useful hedge against
inflation
✅222). Crucial (Adjective)
👉Definition: decisive or critical, especially in the
success or failure of something
👉Synonyms: pivotal, critical, key, climacteric, decisive,
deciding, determining
👉Usage: negotiations were at a crucial stage
✅223). Undue (Adjective)
👉Definition: unwarranted or inappropriate because
excessive or disproportionate
👉Synonyms: excessive, extreme, immoderate,
intemperate, disproportionate
👉Usage: this figure did not give rise to undue concern
✅224). Auction (Noun)
👉Definition: the part of the play in which players bid to
decide the contract in which the hand shall be played
👉Synonyms: bargain, sell-off
👉Usage: Player’s auction is popular.
✅225). Ailing (Adjective)
👉Definition: in poor health
👉Synonyms: ill, unwell, not well, sick, sickly, poorly,
weak, indisposed
👉Usage: I went to see my ailing mother
✅226). Patented (Verb)
👉Definition: obtain a patent for (an invention)
👉Synonyms: copyright, licence, legal
protection, right, performing right, permit, privilege
👉Usage: an invention is not your own until it is
patented
✅227). Heartening (Verb)
👉Definition: make more cheerful or confident
👉Synonyms: cheer up, cheer, raise someone's spirits,
encourage, comfort, reassure
👉Usage: she was heartened to observe that the effect
was faintly comic
✅228). Assault (Verb)
👉Definition: make a physical attack on.
👉Synonyms: hit, strike, physically attack, aim blows at,
slap, smack, beat, thrash
👉Usage: he pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer
✅229). Unsung (Adjective)
👉Definition: not celebrated or praised
👉Synonyms: unacknowledged, uncelebrated,
unacclaimed, unapplauded, unpraised
👉Usage: Harvey is one of the unsung heroes of the
industrial revolution
✅230). Dispenser (Noun)
👉Definition: an automatic machine or container which
is designed to release a specific amount of something.
👉Synonyms: delivery, dealer
👉Usage: a paper towel dispenser
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