New Words for Today:
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Pretend (Noun, Verb, Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend" |
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Verb |
1: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" 2: behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting" 3: put forward a claim and assert right or possession of; "pretend the title of King" |
feign, sham, affect, dissemble |
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Adjective |
1: imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish" |
Assimilate (Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Verb |
1: take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe" 2: become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" 3: make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly" |
absorb, ingest, imbibe |
dissimilate |
Proficient (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching" |
adept, expert, good, practiced |
Buffet (Noun, Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers 2: a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves 3: usually inexpensive bar |
counter, sideboard |
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Verb |
1: strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent" 2: strike, beat repeatedly; "The wind buffeted him" |
batter, buff |
Synonymous (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: (of words) meaning the same or nearly the same |
antonymous |
Today's Vocabulary Challenges*** Write answers in the comment box *** |
Match Synonyms |
Match Antonyms |
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| 1 | accumulate | A | feign | 1: | 1 | assimilate | A | inferior | 1: | |
| 2 | neglect | B | practiced | 2: | 2 | synonymous | B | antonymous | 2: | |
| 3 | pretend | C | compile | 3: | 3 | superior | C | dissimilate | 3: | |
| 4 | proficient | D | absorb | 4: | 4 | D | 4: | |||
| 5 | assimilate | E | drop | 5: | 5 | E | 5: | |||
Match Definitions |
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| 1 | close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) | A | accumulate | 1: |
| 2 | strike, beat repeatedly | B | surveillance | 2: |
| 3 | collect or gather | C | proficient | 3: |
| 4 | having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | D | inventory | 4: |
| 5 | make or include in an itemized record or report | E | buffet | 5: |
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| 1 | 2 | Across: 4: make believe with the intent to deceive(7) 5: usually inexpensive bar(6) Down: 1: lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike(5) 2: of or characteristic of high rank or importance(8) 3: leave undone or leave out(7) |
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Engligh Language Trivia |
| What is a "Root Word"? A root word, as its name suggests, is a word or word part from which other words grow, usually through the addition of prefixes and suffixes. The root of the word vocabulary, for example, is "voc", a Latin root meaning "word" or "name." This root also appears in the words advocacy, convocation, evocative, vocal, and vociferous. Did you know? - Study of crabs and other crustaceans is called "carcinology." |
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Recent Words Learned: synonymous, buffet, proficient, assimilate, pretend, surveillance, inventory, superior, neglect, accumulate, scorn, territory, dumbfound, tropical |
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