Daily Vocab List 19-October-2017

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1.Astute

Meaning: having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one's advantage

Synonym: shrewd, sharp, sharp-witted

Antonym: stupid

Sentence: 'an astute businessman"

2.Amalgam

Meaning: a mixture or blend.

Synonym: combination, union, merger, blend, mixture, mingling

Antonym: division, separation

Sentence: "a curious amalgam of the traditional and the modern

3.Innate

Meaning: inborn; natural

Synonym: congenital, inherent, intrinsic

Antonym: acquired

Sentence: "her innate capacity for organization"

4.Taradiddle

Meaning: a petty lie., pretentious nonsense.

Synonym: fable, fabrication, falsehood,

Sentence: "no sane person would make up such a taradiddle"

5. Monologue

Meaning: a long speech by one actor in a play or film, or as part of a theatrical or 

broadcast programme.

Synonym: soliloquy, speech, address, lecture, oration, sermon,

Sentence: "he was reciting some of the great monologues of Shakespeare" 

6. Ominous

Meaning: giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen; threateningly inauspicious.

Synonym: threatening, menacing, baleful, forbidding, sinister,

Antonym: promising, auspicious, propitious

Sentence: "there were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead"

7. Pernicious

Meaning: having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.

Synonym: harmful, damaging, destructive, injurious

Antonym: beneficial, benign, favourable

Sentence: "the pernicious influences of the mass media"

8. Perfidious

Meaning: deceitful and untrustworthy.

Synonym: treacherous, duplicitous, deceitful, disloyal, faithless, unfaithful, traitorous

Antonym: faithful, loyal

Sentence: "a perfidious lover"

9. Peremptory

Meaning: insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious 

way.

Synonym: high-handed, brisk, abrupt, summary, commanding, authoritative,

Antonym: humble, meek, modest, unassuming

Sentence: "‘Just do it!’ came the peremptory reply"

10. Penury

Meaning: the state of being very poor; extreme poverty.

Synonym: pennilessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence,

Antonym: wealth, affluence

Sentence: "he couldn't face another year of penury"

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