Vocabulary Words - 04.02.2016

Vocabulary Words - 04.02.2016
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1. IMMACULATE (ADJECTIVE): very clean; unspoiled

Synonyms: spotless, flawless

Antonyms: defective, imperfect

Example Sentence:

The clinic, a large house surrounded by single-family homes, is immaculate, smelling of fresh cilantro and coffee beans.

2. SIMULACRUM (NOUN): copy

Synonyms: carbon, duplicate Antonyms: dissimilarity, opposite

Example Sentence:

They radiate from the surface of the skin and reproduce a simulacrum, as it were, of the surface.

3. STEELY (ADJECTIVE): cruel, heartless

Synonyms: brutal, callous Antonyms: sympathetic, gentle

Example Sentence:

She's a steely ingénue, a fair-faced heroine, a leading lady.

4. EXIGUOUS (ADJECTIVE): scanty

Synonyms: bare, confined Antonyms: plenty, many

Example Sentence:

There are plenty of references to them indeed, but they are exiguous and dull.

5. REMISS (ADJECTIVE): careless, thoughtless

Synonyms: lazy, forgetful Antonyms: scrupulous, mindful

Example Sentence:

And yet I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the considerable controversy that your generous decision has generated.

6. OOMPH (NOUN): energy

Synonyms: fortitude, potency Antonyms: inactivity, dullness

Example Sentence:

All the oomph in the U.S. economy was delivered by the top 10% of households.

7. CATACLYSM (NOUN): disaster

Synonyms: calamity, catastrophe Antonyms: blessing, miracle

Example Sentence:

Men everywhere felt that the social system was threatened with a cataclysm.

8. ACCROACH (VERB): claim without justification

Synonyms: assume, expropriate Antonyms: abstain, refuse

Example Sentence:

Perhaps most controversially, constructor is authorized to accroach land wherever it wants.

9. MANEUVER (NOUN): move, tactic

Synonyms: action, procedure Antonyms: ignorance, cessation

Example Sentence:

So Italy faces a plague of maneuver, of futile deals, endemic deadlock and, sooner rather than later, a new round of elections.

10. STERN (ADJECTIVE): serious, authoritarian

Synonyms: harsh, rigid Antonyms: easy, flexible

Example Sentence:

The country had very good technical training, but its labor laws were stern.