Lax:not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful.

Mild: not severe, serious, or harsh

Lax nearest in meaning:mild,slack, slipshod, negligent, neglectful, remiss, careless, heedless, unmindful, inattentive, slapdash, offhand, casual, easy-going, lenient, permissive, soft, liberal, non-restrictive, indulgent, overindulgent, complaisant, over-tolerant, irresponsible, sloppy

We use the reciprocal pronouns each other and one another when two or more people do the same thing.

Peter and Mary helped each other.
= Peter helped Mary and Mary helped Peter.

We sent one another Christmas cards.
= We sent them a Christmas card and they sent us a Christmas card.

They didn't look at each other.
= X didn't look at Y and Y didn't look at X.

Themselves is a plural pronoun. Since it is used reflexively, it is used in contexts where the subject of a sentence is also its object. And since it is plural, it refers to more than one person.

Themselves is a reflexive pronoun that refers to a group of people.

Shed crocodile tears: to pretend to be sorry for somebody/something

Eat your words be forced to admit that what you have said before was wrong

Example: Nick told everyone that he'd be picked for the team, but when he wasn’t chosen he had to eat his words.

In the pipeline: in the process of being planned or developed.

Slaughter: kill (animals) for food

The nearest in meaning could be kill or butcher

Synonyms (nearest in meaning) for lucrative

Advantageous, cost effective, fruitful, good, money-making, profitable, worthwhile, fatness, gainful, high-income, in the black, paying, remunerative, sweet

Antonyms (opposite in meaning) for lucrative

Poorly paid, unprofitable

Synonyms (nearest in meaning) for potent

Compelling, dominant, dynamic, great, impressive, influential, persuasive, robust, strong, useful, vigorous, stiff, almighty, authoritative, ball of fire, cogent, commanding , convincing, efficacious, forcible, full-bodied, go-getter, gutsy, lusty, mighty,powerful, puissant, punchy, spanking, sturdy, telling, trenchant

Antonyms (Opposite in meaning) for potent

Inactive, ineffective, ineffectual, infirm, insignificant, soft, unhealthy, unimportant, weak, disabled, fragile, helpless, impotent, incapable

Like a lamb to the slaughter

If someone goes somewhere like a lamb to the slaughter, they go there quietly and obediently because they have not realized that it will be dangerous or unpleasant, or because they are powerless.

Example

His young bride walked down the aisle like a lamb to the slaughter.

Note: People sometimes use sheep instead of lamb.Example, I had no idea what the interview would be like and went to it like a sheep to the slaughter.

At arm's length: avoid/shun intimacy or close contact.

Opposite of temporary is permanent

Opposite of rebuke/condemn/disapprove is praise

You are required to write a letter to your pan-pal (a stranger you write to particularly via postal mail) telling him/her why you like your school.

Organisation

This is an informal letter and the following features are required:

(1) Writer’s address (without name)
(2) Date
(3) Salutation (Dear Smith, Donald, Page, Pal)
(4) Body
(5) Subscription - Yours sincerely, Yours, Yours ever
(6) First name

Your essay must have the following features:

i. Title/heading
ii. Body
iii. Conclusion
iv. Your name

Your content must be on the usefulness of mobile phone

Your essay must have the following features:

i. Title or heading
ii. Body
iii. Your name
iv. Your school/class/form/house

Possible points to write on

1. Communicating through voice, messages and mails
2. Surfing the internet
3. Voice/Video calling
4. Typing document or making powerpoint presentations
5. Taking photos/videos
6. Video/voice recording
7. Learning

Your paragraphs should be well developed and properly linked.

The language should be descriptive and formal and remember to use appropriate vocabularies

NOTE: This is not a letter so your essay must not be in a letter format

You must check your spellings and punctuations and construct meaningful sentences.

Ensure that you use capital and small letters correctly at their appropriate places, thus for instance I for the pronoun "I" and not "i", etc.

CONTENT: 10 marks

You should discuss the positive or negative effects of public holidays. At least two points, well discussed and illustrated, should be used to support or oppose the observance of public holidays.

ORGANIZATION: 5 marks

The essay should have the following features:

EXPRESSION: 10 marks

The use of formal, decent and polite expressions is expected. There is no room for slang and colloquialism. Sentence patterns should vary and the vocabulary should be appropriate.

MECHANICAL ACCURACY: 5 marks

Ring all errors in concord(subject-verb, noun-pronoun), tense, determiners, prepositions and punctuation whenever they occur.

Ring the wrong spelling of the same word once. Subsequently, underline them.

Each sentence and proper noun should begin with a capital letter. Ring the use of "i" instead of "I" for the first-person pronoun.

You are required to write a letter to your friend in another town describing not less than two interesting things in your hometown.

Organisation

This is an informal letter and the following features are required:

(1) Writer’s address (without name)
(2) Date
(3) Salutation (Dear Kofi, Ama, Adjei, Atswei, Adzovi)
(4) Body
(5) Subscription - Yours sincerely, Yours, Yours ever
(6) First name