Grammar Clinic

Meaning: Wrongdoing, especially by a public official. Example: One evening a court was organised to try him for malfeasance in the office

Meaning: Expected or expecting to be the specified thing in the future. Example: She showed a prospective buyer around the house.

Meaning: the quality or fact of being greater in number, quantity, or importance. Example: the preponderance of women among older people  

Meaning: extremely impressive. Example: the most stupendous views  

Meaning: remedy or set right (an undesirable or unfair situation). Example: the question is how to redress the consequences of racist land policies

Meaning: a sharp twist or curve in something that is otherwise straight. Example: a kink in the road  

Meaning: a thing consisting of a number of different and distinct parts or items that are grouped together. Example: the Earth is a specialized conglomerate of organisms  

Meaning: a feeling of great pleasure; delight. Example: the enchantment of the mountains  

Meaning: (of a natural event) large-scale and violent. Example: a cataclysmic earthquake  

Meaning: the celebration of something in a joyful and exuberant way. Example: a time of great rejoicing and festivity