New Words for Today:
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Alibi (Noun, Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question 2: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable" |
excuse, exculpation |
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Verb |
1: exonerate by means of an alibi |
Haunt (Noun, Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: a frequently visited place |
hangout |
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Verb |
1: follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her" 2: haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her" 3: be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place; "She haunts the ballet" |
stalk, obsess, ghost, frequent |
Arid (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of an arid country to cross" 2: lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery" |
waterless, desiccate, desiccated |
fertile, wetland, vibrant |
Concern (Noun, Verb)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: something that interests you because it is important or affects you; "the safety of the ship is the captain's concern" 2: an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of concern of public reaction" 3: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "a racially integrated business concern" |
care, fear, worry, headache, vexation |
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Verb |
1: have to do with or be relevant to; "There were lots of questions concerning her talk"; "My remark concerned your earlier comments" 2: be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant" |
refer, pertain, relate |
aloof, indifferent |
Today's Vocabulary Challenges*** Answers will be in the next worksheet of this level *** |
Match Synonyms |
Match Antonyms |
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| 1 | buffet | A | challenging | 1: | 1 | synonymous | A | diligent | 1: | |
| 2 | expanse | B | pinnacle | 2: | 2 | dissent | B | aloof | 2: | |
| 3 | summit | C | area | 3: | 3 | negligent | C | antonymous | 3: | |
| 4 | ambitious | D | batter | 4: | 4 | arid | D | wetland | 4: | |
| 5 | bankrupt | E | break | 5: | 5 | concern | E | approve | 5: | |
Match Definitions |
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| 1 | light teasing repartee | A | banter | 1: |
| 2 | something that interests you because it is important or affects you | B | ambitious | 2: |
| 3 | of primary important | C | concern | 3: |
| 4 | having a strong desire for success or achievement | D | capital | 4: |
| 5 | withhold assent | E | dissent | 5: |
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| 1 | Across: 1: anything that serves as an expedient(6) 4: light teasing repartee(6) 6: express opposition through action or words(7) 8: of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic(8) Down: 1: find or declare guilty(7) 2: very unpleasant(8) 3: someone injured or killed in an accident(8) 5: a formal or authoritative proclamation(5) 7: the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse(6) |
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Engligh Language Trivia |
| I am feeling "deja vu" - I think I have studied these words before! "deja vu" - a French phrase means the sensation of having previously experienced something that one is experiencing. "I experienced deja vu when I entered the kitchen, even though I knew that I had never been in that house before." Did you know? - The world's largest alphabet is Cambodian, with 74 letters. |
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Recent Words Learned: concern, arid, haunt, alibi, casualty, batter, crutch, summit, accommodate, electrify, millennium, dreadful, edict, banter, dissent, capital, journal, despicable, council, dusky Answer to Synonyms Matching in worksheet 14: 1:B 2:C 3:E 4:D 5:A Answer to Antonyms Matching in worksheet 14: 1:C 2:A 3:B 4:E 5:D Answer to Definitions Matching in worksheet 14: 1:D 2:B 3:E 4:C 5:A Answer to Crossword in worksheet 14: Across: 4: buffet, 6: capital, 7: disarray Down: 1: convict, 2: casualty, 3: dusky, 4: batter, 5: expanse |
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