Questions

To flog a dead horse means to waste effort on something when there is no chance of succeeding.

Debilitate means make someone very weakSurmount means overcomeSo, Debilitate is nearest in meaning to weaken

During the Mughal Empire, zamindars belonged tothe nobility and formed the ruling class. Emperor Akbar granted them mansabs and their ancestral domains were treated as jagirs.

In some respects of zamindars and the peasants were natural allies in any struggle against the Mughal government.

The Zamindars often received the support of the peasantry in many agrarian uprisings in North India in the seventeenth century.

‘Cured’ is followed by the preposition ‘of’. Thus, the correct sentence would be, ‘He will be cured of his fever’.

'Are’ needs to be replaced with ‘is’ to make the sentence contextually correct. This is because, ‘in subject verb agreement, we match the subject with the nearest verb or the verb with the nearest or the first subject. But the verb should be matched with the main subject of the sentence’. Here the main subject is ‘Ignorant’ which is singular and so is followed by a singular verb.