Meaning: a verbal or written remark expressing an opinion or reaction

Usage: My manager asked for comments on the new proposal

Synonyms: remark, observation, utterance, statement, opinion

Meaning: The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates

Usage: The animals in the wild survive in a hostile environment

Synonyms: habitat, territory, domain, home, abode, surroundings

Meaning: A verbal or written answer

Usage: The response to the question was met with a complete silence.

Synonyms: reaction, reply, feedback

Meaning: An essential or characteristic part of something abstract

Usage: The climax of the story has all the elements of a tragic story

Synonyms: component, constituent, part, section, portion, piece, segment, factor, ingredient, strand, detail, member

Meaning: A class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics

Usage: The research was split into various categories that the outcome is speedy and consistent

Synonyms: class, classification, group, grouping, bracket, type, sort, variety, species

Meaning: Not able to be relied upon

Usage: The actress proved to be unreliable on set and was dismissed from the projects

Synonyms: undependable, untrustworthy, irresponsible, reckless, fickle, capricious

Meaning: The total amount resulting from the addition of two or more numbers, amounts, or items

Usage: The sum total of all the counted votes indicates that the present dispensation is what the voters have preferred.

Synonyms: amount, quantity, price, charge, aggregate, summation, gross

Meaning: Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence

Usage: Human race invents new philosophies on the abstract subjects of love or beauty

Synonyms: theoretical, conceptual, notional, metaphysical, symobolic

Meaning: Record (sound or pictures or data) on audio or video tape

Usage: Recordings of conversations are transcribed by typists and entered into database and are stored in tapes 

Synonyms: recording device

Meaning: Extremely important or involving an extremely important decision

Usage: The batsman got out at a crucial juncture in the cricket match 

Synonyms: critical, key, decisive, pivotal

Meaning: A system of parts working together in a machine; a piece of machinery

Usage: The watch mechanism is extremely intricate and very difficult to repair

Synonyms: procedure, process, system, method, technique

Meaning: A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim

Usage: The opposition leaders agreed that it was time to develop a coherent economic strategy

Synonyms: master plan, game plan, plan of action, policy

Meaning: An objection to something as not being true, genuine, correct, or proper or to a person as not being correct, qualified, or approved

Usage: Too afraid to challenge him, she watched him destroy everything

Synonyms: dare, provocation, opposition, defiance

Meaning: What is put in, taken in, or operated on by any process or system

Usage: The management took the decision as there was very little input from the other members of the organisation

Synonyms: load, insert, capture

Meaning: A piece of work to be done or undertaken

Usage: The new manager was given the task of developing the talent of the players

Synonyms: job, duty, chore, piece of work

Meaning: Dependence on or trust in someone or something

Usage:The universal reliance on animal life stimulated the study of the animal kingdom

Synonyms: dependance

Meaning: A formal meeting of people with a shared interest, typically one that takes place over several days

Usage: There was a private conference between the presidents of the two companies

Synonyms: meeting, convention, seminar, colloquium, symposium

Meaning: The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood

Usage: The proposals need to be considered in the context of the new Indian directives

Synonyms: circumstances, situation, milieu, environment

Meaning: Carefully choose as being the best or most suitable

Usage: A select number of people were invited to attend the inauguration ceremony

Synonyms: choose, pick, hand pick

Meaning: Reciprocal action or influence

Usage: For a shy person, social interaction can be stomach-churning, anxiety-filled experience

Synonyms: interplay, interchange, interactivity, communion

Meaning: A group or system of interconnected people or things

Usage: The bank announced that they presently have a network of over 2000 branches

Synonyms: web, criss-cross, grid

Meaning: Easily perceived or understood; clear, self-evident, or apparent

Usage: Unemployment in the European nations had been the most obvious cost of the recession

Synonyms: clear, crystal clear, evident apparent

Meaning: 10 years

Usage: The decade of the 1990s runs from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999

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Meaning: A formal assurance (typically in writing) that certain conditions will be fulfilled, especially that a product will be repaired or replaced if not of a specified quality

Usage: Investors should be careful that no one can guarantee a profit on stocks and shares

Synonyms: warranty, assurance, covenant, promise

Meaning: The quality of being coherent and intelligible

Usage: The report mentioned that for the sake of clarity, each of the strategies are dealt with separately

Synonyms: lucidity, transparency

Meaning: Point out; show

Usage: The dotted lines in the graph indicate the declining margins of the product

Synonyms: advisable, desirable, recommended, suggested

Meaning: The amount of something produced by a person, machine, or industry

Usage: The industrial output of India in March 2021 had increased by 22% when compared to March 2020

Synonyms: production, product, yield, harvest