New Words for Today:
|
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 *** |
Match Synonyms |
Match Antonyms |
|||||||||
1 | rebuke | A | plenteous | 1: | 1 | amorphous | A | static | 1: | |
2 | copious | B | baffled | 2: | 2 | subordinate | B | structured | 2: | |
3 | ascendancy | C | trounce | 3: | 3 | gratuitous | C | dominant | 3: | |
4 | bemused | D | dominance | 4: | 4 | pervade | D | revocable | 4: | |
5 | ideology | E | philosophy | 5: | 5 | irrevocable | E | necessary | 5: |
Match Definitions |
||||
1 | characterized by motion | A | juxtapose | 1: |
2 | being a single and separate person or thing; -William James | B | belabor | 2: |
3 | greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement | C | singular | 3: |
4 | place side by side | D | preeminent | 4: |
5 | beat soundly | E | kinetic | 5: |
Crossword Challenge | |||||||||||
1 | Across: 2: a deep opening in the earth's surface(5) 4: speed up the progress of; facilitate(8) 7: short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)(8) Down: 1: imaginary or visionary theorization(8) 3: the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle(8) 5: a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved(8) 6: be false to; be dishonest with(6) |
||||||||||
2 | 3 | ||||||||||
4 | 5 | ||||||||||
6 | |||||||||||
7 | |||||||||||
Engligh Language Trivia |
Percy Jackson is my favorite character per se !! "per se" is also a Latin phrase which means "in itself". The statement was interesting per se; it did not make much sense in context, however Did you know? - Study of snakes is called "ophiology." |
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 Synonyms Matching in worksheet 29: 1:A 2:B 3:C 4:D 5:E Answer to Antonyms Matching in worksheet 29: 1:E 2:B 3:D 4:C 5:A Answer to Definitions Matching in worksheet 29: 1:0 2:B 3:E 4:A 5:D Answer to Crossword in worksheet 29: Across: 1: profess, 4: polarize, 8: panacea, 9: belabor Down: 2: singular, 3: hedonism, 5: cryptic, 6: piscine, 7: daunt |
No comments:
Post a Comment