Vocabulary Words - 20.01.2016

Vocabulary Words - 20.01.2016
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1. DOVETAIL (VERB): link, fit together

Synonyms: coincide, conform

Antonyms: clash, differ

Example Sentence:

The novel is structurally daring, managing to dovetail the perspectives of both boys.

2. CONCORDAT (NOUN): agreement

Synonyms: pact, deal Antonyms: disagreement, misunderstanding

Example Sentence:

This was a rupture of the concordat, and was so regarded by Napoleon.

3. REAM (NOUN): heap

Synonyms: bundle, stack Antonyms: individual, lack

Example Sentence:

This year's survey included a ream of questions about returning-veteran violence.

4. FAZE (VERB): embarrass

Synonyms: annoy, confound Antonyms: encourage, enlighten

Example Sentence:

None of this has seemed to faze the journalist, who, this fashion season, displayed her trademark ability to excite and infuriate.

5. MOPE (VERB): pout, be dejected

Synonyms: brood, sulk Antonyms: praise, please

Example Sentence:

For days we were utterly inconsolable, doing nothing but mope morning, noon, and night.

6. SQUISH (VERB): squash

Synonyms: crush, mash Antonyms: lose, uncompressed

Example Sentence:

Any dish in my kitchen will benefit from a squish of lemon, lime, orange or grapefruit, and so I always have them on hand.

7. COCKLE (NOUN): shell

Synonyms: ripple, pucker Antonyms: smoothness, evenness

Example Sentence:

The appearance of cockle Hall was, indeed, as his mother had very properly informed him, ludicrous in the extreme.

8. TAMPER (VERB): interfere, alter

Synonyms: meddle, tinker Antonyms: improve, remain

Example Sentence:

There was something in the hearts of his people with which he dare not tamper.

9. ACCLIMATE (VERB): make or become adjusted, adapted

Synonyms: accustom, accommodate Antonyms: soften

Example Sentence:

They did not have much time to pull their lives together and acclimate themselves to English culture.

10. GROTESQUE (ADJECTIVE): ugly, misshapen

Synonyms: eerie, absurd Antonyms: familiar, usual

Example Sentence:

I confess that I had not up to now taken a very serious view of the case, which had seemed to me rather grotesque and bizarre than dangerous.