New Words for Today:
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Pedestrian (Noun, Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: a person who travels by foot; "always give way to the pedestrians" |
walker |
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Adjective |
1: lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" |
prosaic |
Hypothetical (Noun, Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.; "consider the following, just as a hypothetical" |
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Adjective |
1: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" |
conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, supposed |
Preeminent (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement; "our greatest statesmen"; "the country's leading poet"; "a preeminent archeologist" |
leading |
Nostalgia (Noun)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: longing for something past |
Affable (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host" |
amiable, cordial |
dislike, cold |
Flora (Noun)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" 2: a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
vegetation, botany, plant |
fauna |
Today's Vocabulary Challenges*** Write answers in the comment box *** |
Match Synonyms |
Match Antonyms |
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| 1 | cryptic | A | reputed | 1: | 1 | flora | A | concentric | 1: | |
| 2 | preeminent | B | plague | 2: | 2 | copious | B | fauna | 2: | |
| 3 | purported | C | cabalistic | 3: | 3 | increment | C | scarce | 3: | |
| 4 | blight | D | leading | 4: | 4 | incisive | D | decrement | 4: | |
| 5 | malefactor | E | criminal | 5: | 5 | eccentric | E | dull | 5: | |
Match Definitions |
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| 1 | unrestrained by convention or morality | A | pedestrian | 1: |
| 2 | a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | B | nostalgia | 2: |
| 3 | longing for something past | C | blight | 3: |
| 4 | cause to suffer a blight | D | flora | 4: |
| 5 | a person who travels by foot | E | degenerate | 5: |
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| 1 | Across: 2: excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion(8) 5: all the plant life in a particular region or period(5) 8: cause to suffer a blight(6) 9: make children(5) Down: 1: a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction(8) 3: requiring precise accuracy(8) 4: a deep opening in the earth's surface(5) 6: be false to; be dishonest with(6) 7: cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious(5) |
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Engligh Language Trivia |
| What are "Pangrams"? Pangrams are sentences that use every letter of the alphabet. The best known Pangram is: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs" is another one. If each letter of the alphabet occurs once and only once, that pangram is called perfect pangram. Here is an example: "Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx" Did you know? - Fear of dolls or humanoid figures is called "Pediophobia." |
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Recent Words Learned: flora, affable, nostalgia, preeminent, hypothetical, pedestrian, delude, cryptic, terse, frenetic, exacting, malefactor, portent, copious, increment, oblivion, bemused, repercussion, monarchy, eccentric |
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