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*** Answers will be in the next worksheet of this level *** |
Match Synonyms |
Match Antonyms |
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| 1 | incisive | A | limbo | 1: | 1 | affable | A | decrement | 1: | |
| 2 | malefactor | B | presage | 2: | 2 | illicit | B | cold | 2: | |
| 3 | portent | C | keen | 3: | 3 | increment | C | nice | 3: | |
| 4 | preeminent | D | criminal | 4: | 4 | acrid | D | licit | 4: | |
| 5 | oblivion | E | leading | 5: | 5 | flora | E | fauna | 5: | |
Match Definitions |
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| 1 | affording an abundant supply | A | copious | 1: |
| 2 | not modified or restricted by reservations | B | cryptic | 2: |
| 3 | requiring precise accuracy | C | categorical | 3: |
| 4 | having a secret or hidden meaning | D | qualitative | 4: |
| 5 | relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities | E | exacting | 5: |
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| 1 | 2 | Across: 1: having a puzzling terseness(7) 7: excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion(8) 8: any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting(6) 9: brief and to the point; effectively cut short(5) Down: 2: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of(7) 3: a living organism lacking the power of locomotion(5) 4: make children(5) 5: feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds(8) 6: diffusing warmth and friendliness(7) |
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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? - Study of celestial bodies is called "astronomy." |
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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 Answer to Crossword in worksheet 10: Across: 1: abash, 3: delude, 4: oblivion, 7: exacting, 8: terse Down: 1: accolade, 2: frenetic, 5: blight, 6: beget |
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