G. B. Shaw is the greatest modern English dramatist — Nobel Prize in Literature 1925.

Bertrand Russell won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.

'A Farewell to Arms' (1929) is a novel by Ernest Hemingway.

Jonathan Swift ('Gulliver's Travels') is the foremost English satirist.

'Delude' = to mislead. Synonym: 'Deceive'.

'Wastage' = the abstract noun for the process or amount of wasting.

'Queer' = strange/odd. Antonym: 'Orderly' = neat/systematic.

'Heartening' = present participle used as adjective meaning encouraging.

'Incite' = to urge/encourage wrongdoing. Synonym: 'Instigate'.

'Honorary' = unpaid/without salary. Antonym: 'Salaried'.

'Ability' is noun. Verb form = 'Enable' = to make able.

'For Whom the Bell Tolls' (1940) is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Spanish Civil War.

'Assure somebody of something' is the correct prepositional structure.

Sentences expressing wish or prayer = Optative Sentence.

'Rolling' modifies 'stone' (noun) → present participle used as adjective.

Present perfect + specific point of time → 'since'. 'Friday last' is a point of time.

'Beautiful' is adjective. Noun form = 'Beauty'.

'Hold water' = to be sound/logical when scrutinized = 'bear examination'.

'Out and out' = completely/thoroughly.

'The rich' = plural common noun → plural verb 'are'.