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Ankul Sir English Classes: Synonym Set - I
Ankul Sir English Classes: Synonym Set - I
ABDICATE: To give up claim to, renounce, abandon, ADVERSARY: (adj.: ADVERSE): An opponent, antagonist.
relinquish Antonyms: cohort, confederate, ally, accomplice.
ABET: To encourage or support, spur, incite. ADVERSITY: Misfortune, affliction, mischance, reverses.
Antonym: deter
AESTHETIC: Pertaining to the beautiful, interested in
ABRIDGE: To shorten, curtail, diminish, retrench. aesthetic values rather than in purely practical affairs.
Antonyms: protract, elongate, amplify AFFABLE: Sociable, courteous, and agreeable, civil,
complaisant, benign, gracious, genial, urbane, cordial.
ABROGATE: To abolish or render, void, annul, nullify, Antonyms: curt, brusque, rude, boorish, surly.
rescind, void.
AFFLUENT: Prosperous, flourishing; copious, opulent,
ABSTEMIOUS: Moderate in the use of food or drink, profuse.
temperate
Antonyms: destitute, impecunious.
ACADEMIC: Pertaining to school; theoretical academic
interests; an academic discussion, with no practical AGGRESSIVE (noun: AGGRESSION. an unprovoked attack):
implications. Synonym: scholastic self-assertive; attacking, offensive, bumptious, officious,
obtrusive.
ACCEDE: To agree to, assent. Antonyms: meek, humble, retiring, diffident.
Antonym: demur
ALACRITY: Eagerness; cheerful promptness, celerity,
ACCELERATE: - To quicken, speed tip, expedite (adj. briskness, energy, animation.
expeditious). Antonyms: apathy, nonchalance, sluggishness, lethargy,
Antonym: retard. phlegmatism.
ACCORD: Agreement or harmony, concord, concurrence. ALLAY: To calm; to lessen in severity, appease, alleviate,
Antonyms: dissension, discord pacify, assuage, abate, mitigate, propitiate, mollify,
placate. Antonyms: intensify, aggravate.
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Antonyms: zeal, animation.
ALLUDE (noun: ALLUSION): To refer to indirectly,
insinuate, intimate, imply. APPREHENSIVE (verb: APPREHEND): Fearful, Being
unprepared.
Antonyms: refer, cite.
APPRISE: To inform.
ALLURE: To tempt by flattery or an attractive offer, lure,
decoy, inveigle, entice, seduce, wheedle, beguile, cajole.
Antonym: repel. APPROBATION: Approval; praise, sanction,
commendation. Antonym: disapprobation.
AMBIGUOUS: Uncertain, vague, capable of being inter,
hazy, obscure, equivocal, dubious, nebulous. APT (noun: APTITUDE, APTNESS): ((1) Likely; inclined or
disposed, prone. (2) Fit, suitable, appropriate, felicitous.
Antonyms: explicit, unquestionable.
(3) Skillful, expert, deft, dexterous, adept.
APATHY (adj.: APATHETIC): Lack of feeling, emotion, or Antonyms: gainsay, controvert, recant, rescind, abjure,
interest, torpor, lethargy, sluggishness, listlessness, disavow.
languor, lassitude, dispassion; (verb) languish.
BUCOLIC: Pertaining to the country, pastoral, rustic, rural. Antonyms: steadfast, constant, even-tempered.
CACOPHONOUS: Unharmonious sounding, dissonant, CELESTIAL: Pertaining to the sky; heavenly, ethereal;
discordant, blatant, strident, raucous. (noun) firmament.
CALLOUS: Unfeeling or insensitive, insensible, obdurate. CHRONIC: Continuing a long time; habitual, persistent,
unremitting, inveterate, incessant, constant.
Antonyms: lugubrious, dolorous, mirthless. CRYPTIC : Containing hidden meaning, occult, enigmatic.
CRASS: Coarse and stupid, gross. CURT: Rudely abrupt, blunt, brusque, bluff.
CREDENCE: Trust or belief - gave little credence to the DEARTH: Scarcity - a dearth of news, brought about by
rumor. Synonym: conviction. censorship.
CREDIBLE: Worthy of belief, true to life. DEFERENCE: Submitting to the wishes or judgment of
another, respect, complaisance, veneration.
DEITY: A god -The sun was a deity to ancient peoples. DEVASTATION: Widespread ruin, destruction, desolation.
Synonym: divinity.
DEVIOUS: ((1) Winding; indirect, circuitous. (2) Straying
DELECTABLE: Very pleasing - a delectable meal, tastefully from the right course, crooked, erring.
prepared.
DEVOID: Lacking in; not possessing, destitute.
DEPLETE: To empty or to use up, exhaust, drain. DISCONSOLATE: Depressed; without hope or possibility of
Antonyms: replenish; (adj.) replete. consolation, inconsolable, dejected.
DEPRECIATE: To belittle or speak slightingly of, disparage, DISPARITY (adj.: DISPARATE): Inequality; difference in
derogate (adj. derogatory). image, quantity, character, or rank.
DISSENT (noun: DISSENSION): To disagree; to differ in EMISSARY: A person sent on an errand or mission.
opinion, rejecting compromise.
DISSOLUTE : Living loosely; unrestrained in conduct or
morals, debauched, dissipated, profligate. ENGENDER: To cause, produce, or stir up.
DIVULGE: To make public or reveal, disclose, impart. ENTREAT: To beg earnestly, solicit, supplicate, beseech,
implore, importune; (adj.) importunate, mendicant,
DOGMATIC: Positive in expressing an opinion; asserting suppliant
an opinion as though it were an undisputed fact,
overbearing, opinionated, peremptory, dictatorial. EPHEMERAL: Very short-lived, fleeting, transitory,
transient, evanescent.
DOLOROUS: Sorrowful; mournful, doleful, lugubrious, Antonym: eternal
grievous.
Antonyms: jocund, blithe, mirthful. EPICUREAN (noun): A person devoted to luxurious living
and pleasure, (adj.): Pleasure-loving.
DYNAMIC: Forceful, energetic. Antonyms: static, inert,
dormant, torpid, sluggish, quiescent. EPIGRAM: A brief pointed saying, maxim proverb, adage.
ECCLESIASTIC (adj.): Pertaining to the clergy or the church EPITAPH : A tombstone inscription.
Antonyms: secular, lay. (noun): A clergyman. EPITHET: A phrase that describes a quality (good or bad)
in a person or thing, characterization, appellation
EDICT: A public command or proclamation issued by an
authority, decree. EQUANIMITY (adj.: EQUABLE): Evenness of temper or
mind, serenity, composure, imperturbability, aplomb.
EDIFY: To instruct or uplift, particularly in morals or
religion. ERR (noun: ERRATUM): To be mistaken or go, stray,
blunder.
EFFETE: No longer productive; hence, lacking in or, worn
out. ERRATIC: Irresponsible, eccentric; lacking a fixed purpose
erratic behavior, reflecting his queer ideas.
EXPOUND (noun: EXPOSITION): To set forth in detail; to FEIGN (noun: FEINT): To pretend, dissemble, sham,
explain. dissimulate, affect.
EXPURGATE: To purify (usually a piece of writing) of FELICITY (adj.: FELICITOUS): (1) A state of happiness, bliss.
offensive material, purge, delete. (2) A high ability.
EXTEMPORANEOUS: Done or spoken on the spur of the FERVID: Spirited; ardent, perfervid, impassioned, zealous,
moment or without preparation, impromptu, offhand. fervent, vehement.
EXTINCT: No longer existing or active, defunct. FESTOON (noun): A garland of flowers, leaves, etc. hung
between two points, (verb): To hang with festoons.
Antonym: extant.
HYPERBOLE: Extravagant exaggeration for effect, IMPORT (noun): Meaning; significance or importance,
overstatement. purport, moment, consequence.
Antonym: understatement.
IMPOSTOR (noun: IMPOSTURE): One who pretends to be
what he is not unmasked as an impostor, quack,
HYPOTHESIS: An assumption made for the sake of
mountebank, charlatan, bogus, fraud.
argument, supposition.
INGRATIATE: To win another's favor or good opinion tried Antonyms: somber, staid.
to ingratiate himself with the politician.
JEOPARDY: Danger, hazard, peril.
INHIBIT: To check or hinder, restrain, curb.
JETTISON: To throw overboard (as cargo); to throw off (as
Antonym: promote.
a burden or something in the way )- jettisoned their old
candidate as a political liability.
INNOCUOUS: Harmless; inoffensive.
Antonyms: doleful, lugubrious, dismal. MISNOMER: A name or term that describes wrongly.
LUMINARY: An eminent person; a celestial body. MONOLOGUE : A speech by one person, soliloquy.
Antonyms: colloquy (adj. colloquial): conversation
MACHIAVELLIAN: Sacrificing moral principles in order to between two or more persons; dialogue: conversation
attain power; politically cunning; crafty, unscrupulous. between two persons.
MALICIOUS (noun: MALICE): Bearing, or acting with, MOROSE: Gloomy; ill-humored, sulky, crabbed, sullen,
deliberate ill-will or spite, rancorous, malignant, splenetic, saturnine.
malevolent, virulent, vindictive.
Antonyms: blithe, genial.
Antonym: benign.
MOTLEY: Of various colors; of mixed ingredients,
MASQUERADE (verb): To assume a deceptive appearance checkered (referring to a varied career), piebald,
or character, dissemble, feign. (noun): A disguise; a group variegated, diverse, heterogeneous.
of people in disguise or fancy costumes.
Antonym: homogeneous.
MUNDANE : Of, or pertaining to, the world, as contrasted OBSOLETE: No longer in use, archaic, antiquated.
with the spirit, earthly, terrestrial, secular, temporal.
OBTRUSIVE (verb: OBTRUDE): Thrusting oneself or itself
MURKY: Dark; cloudy, dismal, tenebrous, fuliginous. into undue prominence, intrusive, aggressive.
Antonyms: resplendent, glowing, lustrous, luminous,
fulgent, coruscating. OBVIATE: To prevent, dispose of, or make unnecessary by
appropriate actions, preclude, forestall.
MUTABLE: Given to frequent change in nature, mood, or
form, vacillating, fickle, inconstant, fitful, mercurial, OMNIPOTENT: All-powerful - an omnipotent despot.
wavering, capricious.
ONUS: Burden; duty; obligation.
Antonyms: constant, steady.
NOTRIOUS: Widely known (in a bad sense). PARODY (noun): A humorous imitation of an author's
style and mannerisms, burlesque. (verb): To write a
NOVICE: A beginner, tyro, neophyte. Antonym: virtuoso. parody, Mimic.
OBDURATE: Hard-hearted; stubborn, adamant, PECCADILLO: A petty fault, frailty, foible, flaw, blemish.
unyielding, inflexible.
PECUNIARY: Pertaining to money, financial, fiscal,
Antonyms: submissive, docile, compliant.
monetary.
POIGNANT: (1) Gripping and moving the feelings PROXIMITY : Nearness, propinquity, vicinity.
powerfully - a poignant grief. (2) Piercing, biting, pointed -
Antonym : remoteness.
a poignant cry; poignant wit.
RADICAL (noun): One who advocates extreme basic RETRIEVE: (1) To make good. (2) To recover. (3) To
changes. (adj.): Thorough, extreme. restore.
SUPINE: (1) Lying flat on the back. TURGID: (1) Swollen, inflated, bloated, distended. (2)
Antonym: erect. Using big or high-sounding words pompous, bombastic,
prolix.
(2) Inert, inactive, averse to taking action, listless, torpid.
UBIQUITOUS: Existing everywhere, omnipresent,
TANGIBLE: Real; actual, material, veritable, perceptible, universal.