New Words for Today:
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Usurp (Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Verb |
1: seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died" 2: take the place of; "gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke" |
assume, seize, arrogate |
Sordid (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal" 2: unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" 3: foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns" |
seamy, seedy, sleazy, squalid, dirty, flyblown |
Virulent (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" 2: infectious; having the ability to cause disease 3: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique" |
deadly, venomous, acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter |
Ascendancy (Noun)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent ascendancy over her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" |
dominance, ascendance, control |
Today's Vocabulary Challenges*** Answers will be in the next worksheet of this level *** |
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1 | equine | A | equid | 1: | 1 | colloquial | A | hyperopia | 1: | |
2 | gratuitous | B | honor | 2: | 2 | irrevocable | B | formal | 2: | |
3 | ascendancy | C | costless | 3: | 3 | myopia | C | concentric | 3: | |
4 | guile | D | dominance | 4: | 4 | extrovert | D | introvert | 4: | |
5 | accolade | E | craft | 5: | 5 | eccentric | E | revocable | 5: |
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1 | humorously sarcastic or mocking | A | usurp | 1: |
2 | excessively or hypocritically pious | B | sanctimonious | 2: |
3 | take the place of | C | culinary | 3: |
4 | cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions | D | ironic | 4: |
5 | of or relating to or used in cooking | E | polarize | 5: |
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1 | Across: 2: take the place of(5) 6: of or relating to fish(7) 7: be false to; be dishonest with(6) 8: beat soundly(7) Down: 1: an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose(6) 3: morally degraded(6) 4: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected(8) 5: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists(7) |
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Engligh Language Trivia |
there's no accounting for taste This expression is used to indicate surprise at another person's likes or dislikes. "She fell in love with a guy who's short, fat, bald and poor ... there's no accounting for taste!" Did you know? - Gazump means "To buy something already promised to someone else." |
Recent Words Learned: ascendancy, virulent, sordid, usurp, indigenous, deride, singular, ideology, extrovert, sanctimonious, polarize, heterogeneous, belabor, piscine, amorphous, willful, culinary, contiguous, kinetic, assuage Answer to Crossword in worksheet 29: Across: 1: chasm, 3: delude, 5: ideology, 7: bereaved Down: 1: culinary, 2: cryptic, 3: daunt, 4: polarize, 6: guile |
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