Daily Vocab List 22-06-2017

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1.passé

Meaning: no longer fashionable; out of date.

Synonym: out of date, outdated, out, dated, unfashionable, out of fashion, old-fashioned

Antonym: fashionable

Sentence: "minis are passé—the best skirts are knee-length"

2.amicable

Meaning: characterized by friendliness and absence of discord.

Synonym: friendly, good-natured, cordial,

Antonym: unfriendly, hostile

Sentence: "an amicable settlement of the dispute"

3.partisan

Meaning: a strong supporter of a party, cause, or person

Synonym: supporter, follower, adherent, devotee,

Sentence: "partisans of the exiled Stuarts"

4.amnesty

Meaning: an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offences.

Synonym: pardon, pardoning, reprieve;

Sentence: "an amnesty for political prisoners"

5.patrimony

Meaning: property inherited from one's father or male ancestor.

Synonym: heritage, inheritance, birthright;

Sentence: "owners refuse to part with their patrimony in the interests of agricultural development"

6.amorous

Meaning: showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire.

Synonym: lustful, sexual, erotic, amatory, ardent;

Antonym: unloving, cold

Sentence: "she rejected his amorous advances"

7.pecuniary

Meaning: relating to or consisting of money.

Synonym: financial, monetary, money,

Antonym: nonfinancial

Sentence: "he admitted obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception"

8.amputate

Meaning: cut off (a limb) by surgical operation.

Synonym:  chop off, remove 

Sentence: "surgeons had to amputate her left hand"

9.pedant

Meaning: a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.

Synonym: dogmatist, purist, literalist, formalist, doctrinaire; 

Sentence: "the royal palace (some pedants would say the ex-royal palace)"

10.paucity

Meaning: the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts.

Synonym: dearth, deficit, drought

Antonym:  bountifulness, copiousness; excess,

Sentence: "a paucity of information"

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