New Words for Today:
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Pledge (Noun, Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: a deposit of personal property as security for a debt; "his saxophone was in pledge" 2: someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group 3: a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event |
toast, assurance |
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Verb |
1: promise solemnly and formally; "I pledge that I will honor my wife" 2: pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals; "I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station" 3: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" |
plight, subscribe, toast, drink, salute |
Noble (Noun, Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: a titled peer of the realm |
Lord |
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Adjective |
1: impressive in appearance; "a noble mansion"; "a noble residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns" 2: of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times; "of noble birth" 3: having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character; "a noble spirit"; "noble deeds" |
baronial, imposing, stately |
lowborn |
Compassion (Noun)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering; "have a compassion for the quake victims" 2: the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it; "His deep compassion for the AIDS patients made him contribute half of his estate to the centre" |
pity |
Blunder (Noun, Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: an embarrassing mistake |
blooper |
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Verb |
1: commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview" 2: make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door" 3: utter impulsively; "He blurted out the secret"; "He blundered his stupid ideas" |
sin, boob, goof, fumble |
Today's Vocabulary Challenges*** Write answers in the comment box *** |
Match Synonyms |
Match Antonyms |
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1 | pledge | A | subscribe | 1: | 1 | opinion | A | last | 1: | |
2 | fortunate | B | pity | 2: | 2 | wonder | B | aloof | 2: | |
3 | compassion | C | golden | 3: | 3 | invest | C | divest | 3: | |
4 | endanger | D | imposing | 4: | 4 | distant | D | close | 4: | |
5 | Noble | E | menace | 5: | 5 | initial | E | fact | 5: |
Match Definitions |
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1 | presaging good fortune | A | endanger | 1: |
2 | put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | B | compassion | 2: |
3 | a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact | C | fortunate | 3: |
4 | the first letter of a word (especially a person's name) | D | initial | 4: |
5 | a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | E | fiction | 5: |
Crossword Challenge | |||||||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | Across: 1: have a wish or desire to know something(6) 4: a deliberately false or improbable account(7) 8: make one's way clumsily or blindly(7) 9: give qualities or abilities to(6) Down: 2: far apart in relevance or relationship(7) 3: pose a threat to; present a danger to(8) 5: a titled peer of the realm(5) 6: a deposit of personal property as security for a debt(6) 7: birth of a person(6) |
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Engligh Language Trivia |
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". Did you know? - Study of sediment is called "sedimentology." |
Recent Words Learned: blunder, compassion, Noble, pledge, opinion, vacate, wonder, fortunate, endanger, cradle, initial, distant, visual, invest, fiction, fatigue, ally Answer to Crossword in worksheet 4: Across: 3: invest, 5: fatigue, 6: ally, 7: cradle Down: 1: wonder, 2: visual, 3: initial, 4: endanger |
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