New Words for Today:
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Salutary (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health; "beneficial effects of a balanced diet"; "a good night's sleep"; "the salutary influence of pure air" |
beneficial, good |
Misappropriate (Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Verb |
1: appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family" |
embezzle, defalcate, peculate |
Peruse (Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Verb |
1: examine or consider with attention and in detail; "Please peruse this report at your leisure" |
Sanguine (Noun, Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: a blood-red color |
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Adjective |
1: confidently optimistic and cheerful 2: inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion" |
rubicund, ruddy, florid |
Guile (Noun)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception 2: the quality of being crafty 3: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
craft, craftiness, cunning |
Hedonism (Noun)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle 2: an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good |
Today's Vocabulary Challenges*** Answers will be in the next worksheet of this level *** |
Match Synonyms |
Match Antonyms |
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| 1 | extrapolate | A | generalize | 1: | 1 | gratuitous | A | stingy | 1: | |
| 2 | copious | B | supposed | 2: | 2 | clique | B | cold | 2: | |
| 3 | bemused | C | free | 3: | 3 | benevolent | C | needed | 3: | |
| 4 | gratuitous | D | plenteous | 4: | 4 | affable | D | fauna | 4: | |
| 5 | purported | E | confounded | 5: | 5 | flora | E | outsider | 5: | |
Match Definitions |
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| 1 | showing no care or concern in attitude or action | A | sacrilege | 1: |
| 2 | costing nothing | B | gratuitous | 2: |
| 3 | tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health | C | indifferent | 3: |
| 4 | blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | D | rebuke | 4: |
| 5 | censure severely or angrily | E | salutary | 5: |
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| 1 | Across: 5: place restrictions on(7) 6: make less severe or harsh(8) 7: kindness of disposition or manner(6) Down: 1: the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle(8) 2: all the plant life in a particular region or period(5) 3: suitable for cutting or piercing(8) 4: cause to suffer a blight(6) |
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Engligh Language Trivia |
| pass muster If someone or something passes muster,they are considered to be satisfactory or acceptable. "The interview went well. I hope I'll pass muster" Did you know? - Science of sound is called "acoustics." |
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Recent Words Learned: hedonism, guile, sanguine, peruse, misappropriate, salutary, hiatus, indifferent, myopia, ironic, allocate, benevolent, permeate, fecund, curtail, equine, unremitting, indignant, apotheosis, steadfast Answer to Synonyms Matching in worksheet 18: 1:E 2:A 3:C 4:D 5:B Answer to Antonyms Matching in worksheet 18: 1:E 2:C 3:B 4:D 5:A Answer to Definitions Matching in worksheet 18: 1:E 2:D 3:A 4:C 5:B Answer to Crossword in worksheet 18: Across: 4: cryptic, 6: frenetic, 7: hiatus, 8: curtail, 9: delude Down: 1: fecund, 2: allocate, 3: illicit, 5: permeate |
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