New Words for Today:
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Panacea (Noun)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists 2: (Greek mythology) the goddess of healing; daughter of Aesculapius and sister of Hygeia |
nostrum, catholicon, cure-all |
Colloquial (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English" |
formal, standard |
Felicity (Noun)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) 2: state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy |
happiness |
Affinity (Noun)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; "an affinity for politics"; "the mysterious affinity between them"; "James's affinity with Sam" 2: inherent resemblance between persons or things; "there's a unique affinity between him and his father in the way they walk" 3: a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character; "found a natural affinity with the immigrants"; "felt a deep kinship with the other students"; "anthropology's kinship with the humanities" |
kinship |
Portentous (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision" 2: ominously prophetic 3: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek |
prodigious, fateful, foreboding, overblown, pompous |
Today's Vocabulary Challenges*** Answers will be in the next worksheet of this level *** |
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| 1 | affinity | A | deaf | 1: | 1 | flora | A | cold | 1: | |
| 2 | purported | B | erase | 2: | 2 | bemused | B | revocable | 2: | |
| 3 | benevolent | C | kindly | 3: | 3 | copious | C | fauna | 3: | |
| 4 | indifferent | D | reputed | 4: | 4 | irrevocable | D | scarce | 4: | |
| 5 | efface | E | kinship | 5: | 5 | affable | E | composed | 5: | |
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| 1 | (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | A | tenet | 1: |
| 2 | part with a possession or right | B | relinquish | 2: |
| 3 | state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | C | unremitting | 3: |
| 4 | a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof | D | felicity | 4: |
| 5 | uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | E | myopia | 5: |
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| 1 | 2 | Across: 4: confidently optimistic and cheerful(8) 6: brief and to the point; effectively cut short(5) 7: examine or consider with attention and in detail(6) 8: humorously sarcastic or mocking(6) 9: (Greek mythology) the goddess of healing; daughter of Aesculapius and sister of Hygeia(7) Down: 1: a deep opening in the earth's surface(5) 2: spend extravagantly(8) 3: excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion(8) 5: (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred(6) |
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Engligh Language Trivia |
| What does Root word "narr" mean? Root word "narr" comes from Latin, meaning tell. Examples: narrate - to tell a story; narrative - a story; narrator - a person who tells a story. Did you know? - Study of diseases is called "nosology." |
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Recent Words Learned: portentous, affinity, felicity, colloquial, panacea, saccharine, relinquish, virtuoso, squander, irrevocable, daunt, tenet, vociferous, infinitesimal, peripatetic, implement, hedonism, guile, sanguine, peruse Answer to Synonyms Matching in worksheet 22: 1:E 2:C 3:A 4:D 5:B Answer to Antonyms Matching in worksheet 22: 1:C 2:E 3:D 4:B 5:A Answer to Definitions Matching in worksheet 22: 1:D 2:C 3:E 4:B 5:A Answer to Crossword in worksheet 22: Across: 1: beget, 5: squander, 6: allocate, 7: hiatus, 8: rebuke, 9: cryptic Down: 2: tenet, 3: virtuoso, 4: affable, 5: salutary |
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