New Words for Today:
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Tropical (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit" 2: of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic; "tropical year" 3: characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense |
tropic |
Dumbfound (Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Verb |
1: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" |
perplex, vex |
Territory (Noun)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: a region marked off for administrative or other purposes 2: an area of knowledge or interest; "his questions covered a lot of territory" 3: the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state; "American troops were stationed on Japanese soil" |
district, dominion, soil |
Scorn (Noun, Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary" 2: open disrespect for a person or thing |
contempt, disdain, despite |
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Verb |
1: look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately" 2: reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" |
contemn, despise, disdain |
Accumulate (Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Verb |
1: get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" 2: collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" |
collect, amass, compile, hoard |
Today's Vocabulary Challenges*** Write answers in the comment box *** |
Match Synonyms |
Match Antonyms |
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| 1 | scorn | A | perplex | 1: | 1 | A | 1: | |||
| 2 | accumulate | B | soil | 2: | 2 | B | 2: | |||
| 3 | territory | C | disdain | 3: | 3 | C | 3: | |||
| 4 | tropical | D | collect | 4: | 4 | D | 4: | |||
| 5 | dumbfound | E | tropic | 5: | 5 | E | 5: | |||
Match Definitions |
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| 1 | of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic | A | territory | 1: |
| 2 | an area of knowledge or interest | B | accumulate | 2: |
| 3 | open disrespect for a person or thing | C | tropical | 3: |
| 4 | be a mystery or bewildering to | D | scorn | 4: |
| 5 | get or gather together | E | dumbfound | 5: |
| Crossword Challenge | |||||||||||
| 1 | Across: 2: reject with contempt(5) Down: 1: of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic(8) |
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Engligh Language Trivia |
| How Many words are there in English Language? There is no single sensible answer to this question. It's impossible to count the number of words in English because it's not well defined, what counts as a "word" in the first place. Unlike French, German, Spanish and Italian languages, there is no Academy for English to define official accepted words or spellings. New words are coined and added regularly. 2nd Edition of Oxford English dictionary lists over 600,000 words. A 2010 joint study by Harvard and Google estimated English containing 1,022,000 words with around 8500 words being added every year. |
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Recent Words Learned: accumulate, scorn, territory, dumbfound, tropical |
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