Daily Vocab List 20-October-2017

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1.Scarce

Meaning: (especially of food, money, or some other resource) insufficient for the demand.

Synonym: scanty, meagre, sparse

Antonym: plentiful, abundant

Sentence: "as raw materials became scarce, synthetics were developed"

2.Usurp

Meaning: take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force.

Synonym: seize, take over, expropriate,

Antonym: release, relinquish 

Sentence: "Richard usurped the throne"

3.Sentinel

Meaning: a soldier or guard whose job is to stand and keep watch.

Synonym: guard, keeper

Sentence: "soldiers stood sentinel with their muskets"

4.Wanton

Meaning: (of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked

Synonym: deliberate, malicious,

Antonym: justifiable

Sentence: "sheer wanton vandalism"

5.Uncouth

Meaning: lacking good manners, refinement, or grace.

Synonym: uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined,

Antonym: refined, cultivated, polite

Sentence: "he is unwashed, uncouth, and drunk most of the time"

6.perennial

Meaning:lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring

Synonym:everlasting, perpetual, eternal,

Antonym: ceasing, ending, halting, infrequent, intermittent, interrupted, occasional, 

temporary

Sentence:"his perennial distrust of the media"

7. Allude

Meaning: suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at, mention without discussing at length.

Synonym: refer to, suggest, hint at, imply, mention,

Antonym: announce, declare, proclaim; elucidate, explain, spell out

Sentence: she had a way of alluding to Jean but never saying her name"

8. Specious

Meaning: superficially plausible, but actually wrong., misleading in appearance, especially 

misleadingly attractive

Synonym: misleading, deceptive, false, fallacious,

Antonym: candid, direct, foursquare,

Sentence: "a specious argument" 

9. Alliteration

Meaning: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely 

connected words.

Sentence: "the alliteration of ‘sweet birds sang’"

10.Alleviate

Meaning: make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe.

Synonym: reduce, ease, relieve

Antonym: aggravate

Sentence: "he couldn't prevent her pain, only alleviate it"

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