| New Words for Today |
Ambitious (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: having a strong desire for success or achievement 2: requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake" |
challenging |
Agitate (Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Verb |
1: try to stir up public opinion 2: cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" 3: exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate" |
foment, rouse, charge, commove, excite, crusade |
calm |
Devour (Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Verb |
1: destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our home" 2: enjoy avidly; "She devoured his novels" 3: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" |
down, consume, guttle |
Terminate (Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Verb |
1: bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" 2: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" 3: be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie" |
end, stop, finish, cease, fire, can, dismiss, sack |
Distraught (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief" |
calm |
| Today's Word Challenges |
| Match Synonyms | Match Antonyms | |||||||||
| 1 | pretend | A | down | 1: | 1 | agitate | A | antonymous | 1: | |
| 2 | terminate | B | can | 2: | 2 | assimilate | B | calm | 2: | |
| 3 | proficient | C | good | 3: | 3 | synonymous | C | calm | 3: | |
| 4 | devour | D | dominion | 4: | 4 | superior | D | inferior | 4: | |
| 5 | territory | E | sham | 5: | 5 | distraught | E | dissimilate | 5: | |
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| 1 | strike, beat repeatedly | A | buffet | 1: |
| 2 | the enactment of a pretense | B | ambitious | 2: |
| 3 | having a strong desire for success or achievement | C | agitate | 3: |
| 4 | the merchandise that a shop has on hand | D | inventory | 4: |
| 5 | try to stir up public opinion | E | pretend | 5: |
| Crossword Challenge | |||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Across: 1: lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike(5) 4: one of greater rank or station or quality(8) 6: put forward a claim and assert right or possession of(7) Down: 2: fail to do something; leave something undone(7) 3: of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic(8) 5: eat immoderately(6) |
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| Interesting things about Engligh Language |
| What is a "Prefix"? A prefix is a letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning of a word that partly indicates its meaning. For example, the word prefix itself begins with a prefix--pre-, which generally means "before". A prefix is a letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning of a word that partly indicates its meaning. For example, the word prefix itself begins with a prefix--pre-, which generally means "before". |
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Recent Words Learned: distraught, terminate, devour, agitate, ambitious, synonymous, buffet, proficient, assimilate, pretend, surveillance, inventory, superior, neglect, accumulate, scorn, territory, dumbfound, tropical Answer to Crossword in worksheet 4: Across: 4: tropical, 5: scorn, 6: pretend Down: 1: buffet, 2: neglect, 3: superior |
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