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PEL101- COMMUNICATION SKILLS-I. LECTURE-9 WEEK-5 DESIGNED BY SATPAL SINGH, 15908 & ANUDEEP KAUR BEDI, 13654. What do you mean by following?.
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PEL101- COMMUNICATION SKILLS-I LECTURE-9 WEEK-5 DESIGNED BY SATPAL SINGH, 15908 & ANUDEEP KAUR BEDI, 13654
What do you mean by following? • The medical community indicates that a program of downsizing average total daily caloric intake is maximally efficacious in the field of proactive weight-reduction methodologies. • (25 words)
Do you mean? • Doctors say that the best way to lose weight is to eat less. (13 words) • The medical community = Doctors • a program of downsizing average total daily caloric intake = to eat less • maximally efficacious in the field of proactive weight-reduction methodologies = to lose weight
Vocabulary :One word Substitution • Why? • To increase vocab • To express an entire idea in more concise way • For brevity • To save time, energy and paper
Examples: One word substitute • A person who believes in God = Theist • A student who stays away from school without telling his/her parents = Truant • Someone’s life history written by another person = Biography • One’s own written life history = Autobiography • Tendency to favor one’s relatives = Nepotism
Examples: One word Substitute • A series of three novels/works by a writer/artist = Trilogy • One takes pleasure in torturing others = Sadist • A story in which ideas are symbolized as characters = Allegory • Killing one’s own father = Patricide • Killing one’s own mother = matricide • A medicine that cures all diseases = Panacea
Examples: One word substitute • A place where wild animals/birds are kept in a protected area = Sanctuary • One who totally abstains from drinking = teetotaller /teetotaler • One who understands the finer aspects of art, music etc. = Connoisseur • One who eats in large quantities = Glutton • Compulsive desire to steal = Kleptomania
Examples: One word subsitute • A screen or pen name adopted by an artist or writer = Pseudonym • Someone who travels with devotion to a sacred place = Pilgrim • A person who has beautiful and elegant handwriting = calligrapher • A person with strange and peculiar habits = eccentric
MCQ Exercise: One word substitute • Find apt word for One who can’t read or write • Uneducated b) illiterate c) ill mannered 2. What do you mean by Panacea? • Medicine b) cure for all problems c) Eating too much
Answers 1 b 2 b
MCQ Find meaning of sycophant • One who is mentally upset • A killer on street • A thief • One who praises to get money 1.What are you going to do now? 2.What are your chances to get correct option? • According to probability =25%
Tip to find correct option for MCQs • When you do not know correct option • Increase your probability • How? • What is your probability to find incorrect option? • 75% • So focus on incorrect options • And eliminate
Tip to find correct option for MCQs • When you eliminate1 wrong possibility • Probability to find correct option 33% • When you eliminate 2 wrong possibilities? • It’s 50% • Lets do it practically, now.
MCQ • Find meaning of sycophant • One who is mentally upset • A killer on street • A thief • One who praises to get money • Look at the spellings of the word given • Which is least correct possibility? • Try to eliminate another
Answers • I will think like • I have never heard/read a word like sycophant used for a killer or a thief • Psycho and scycho are different • So answer is one who praises to get money
Exercises: One word substitute • A person who believes in God • Pilgrim b) Atheist c) Theist d) Eccentric 2. Habit of favoring own relatives • Truant b) Pseudonym • Calligrapher d) Nepotism
Exercises: One word substitute 3. A story which is symbolic • Allegory b) trilogy c) Biography d) Sadist 4. Dilip Kumar, tragedy king of bollywood, is ………...... of Yousaf Khan. • Eccentric b) Pseudonym c) Theist d) Connoisseur
Exercises: One word substitute 5. He is rich but has a compulsive desire to steal. a) Gluttony b) Kleptomania c) Calligraphy d) Sanctuary 6. If you do not drink, you are …………….. • Teetotaler b) theist c) Pilgrim d) Sadist
Answers 1 c 2 d 3 a 4 b 5 b 6 a
Exercises: One word substitute • If you have refined taste for art, you are ……… a) Glutton b) Connoisseur c) Philanthropist d) Painter 2. Act of killing one’s father is ……………. • Matricide b) Pesticide c) Patricide d) Regicide
Exercises: One word substitute 3. One who bunks classes • Sadist b) Cosmopolitan c) Truant d) Dullard 4. Something that is unnecessary • Feminist b) Lexicographer c) Credulous d) Superfluous
Answers 1 b 2 c 3 c 4 d
One word substitute • A woman who never gets married = Spinster • One who deserts one’s religion = Apostate • One who hates woman = Misogynist • An animal story with a moral =Fable
One word substitute • A general official pardon given to many = Amnesty • Someone who compiles a dictionary = Lexicographer • A long narrative poem written in grand style = Epic • An agreement between two parties = Pact
One word substitute • A particular method used to achieve something = Tactic • An artist’s most outstanding and memorable artistic creation = masterpiece