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8. Outdated: (No longer valid or fashionable; old; not in use;
obsolete) "outdated machinery".
9. Benchmark: (A standard by which something can be measured
or judged; Evaluate relative to some benchmark standard or
scale; scale of measurement) "his painting sets the benchmark of
quality”.
10. Renaissance: (The period of European history at the close of
the middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth
from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries; the revival of
learning and culture).
TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE USE OF ARTICLES IN THIS
PASSAGE
Over 19.8 million voters in Assam are eligible to exercise their
franchise in the two-phase polls on April 4 and April 11 to elect its 126-
seat Assembly. The Assam election assumes importance this time
round because of two interlinked reasons. Arguably, it is the only one
among the clutch of States going to the polls where the Bharatiya
Janata Party, a marginal player in West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil
Nadu, has a realistic chance of grabbing power. The verdict in the
State will be a barometer of the extent to which Prime Minister
Narendra Modi has been able to retain his appeal. It propelled him to
power at the Centre in 2014 and helped the party pick up an
unprecedented seven out of 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam, but the
Assembly elections in Delhi and Bihar thereafter put the brakes on
the BJP’s momentum. As with Delhi and Bihar, where Arvind Kejriwal
and Nitish Kumar went into the campaign as strong chief ministerial
candidates, the BJP is up against a formidable local leader, the three-
time Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi of the Congress. Mr. Gogoi has
striven hard to convert this into a ‘CM versus PM’ face-off, but the
BJP announced Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports
Sarbananda Sonowal as its chief ministerial nominee as early as in
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8. Outdated: (No longer valid or fashionable; old; not in use;
obsolete) "outdated machinery".
9. Benchmark: (A standard by which something can be measured
or judged; Evaluate relative to some benchmark standard or
scale; scale of measurement) "his painting sets the benchmark of
quality”.
10. Renaissance: (The period of European history at the close of
the middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth
from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries; the revival of
learning and culture).
TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE USE OF ARTICLES IN THIS
PASSAGE
Over 19.8 million voters in Assam are eligible to exercise their
franchise in the two-phase polls on April 4 and April 11 to elect its 126-
seat Assembly. The Assam election assumes importance this time
round because of two interlinked reasons. Arguably, it is the only one
among the clutch of States going to the polls where the Bharatiya
Janata Party, a marginal player in West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil
Nadu, has a realistic chance of grabbing power. The verdict in the
State will be a barometer of the extent to which Prime Minister
Narendra Modi has been able to retain his appeal. It propelled him to
power at the Centre in 2014 and helped the party pick up an
unprecedented seven out of 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam, but the
Assembly elections in Delhi and Bihar thereafter put the brakes on
the BJP’s momentum. As with Delhi and Bihar, where Arvind Kejriwal
and Nitish Kumar went into the campaign as strong chief ministerial
candidates, the BJP is up against a formidable local leader, the three-
time Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi of the Congress. Mr. Gogoi has
striven hard to convert this into a ‘CM versus PM’ face-off, but the
BJP announced Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports
Sarbananda Sonowal as its chief ministerial nominee as early as in
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