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Showing posts with label word of the day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label word of the day. Show all posts

Friday, 15 April 2016

WORDS OF THE DAY

What my class and I do every morning.


Name: Limi 12 April 2016


Word: considerate


Dictionary meaning - careful not to inconvenience or harm others


Synonyms - generous, mindful


Antonyms -  careless, greedy


Related words - considerately, considerateness


Sentence - he was a very considerate critic.
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Name: Limi 12 April 2016


Word: Critical


Dictionary meaning - expressing adverse or disapproving comments or judgements.


Synonyms - demanding


Antonyms - uncritical


Related words - criticality, criticalness


Sentence - the floodwaters had not receded and the situation was still critical
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Name: Limi 12 April 2016


Word : dispute


Dictionary meaning - a disagreement or an argument


Synonyms - discord,row


Antonyms - calm,agreement


Related words - disputer, disputes


Sentence - It was a terrible dispute between the mother and father.
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Name: Limi 12 April 2016


Word : Establish


Dictionary meaning - set up on a firm or permanent basis


Synonyms - form, install, build


Antonyms - destroy, end , remove


Related words - establishable,establisher


Sentence -I had to establish the doll house all by myself.
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Name: Limi 12 April 2016


Word: Investment


Dictionary meaning - the action or process of investing money for profit.


Synonyms - asset, money


Antonyms - truth, realty


Related words - non reinvestment


Sentence - building a house was a major investment.
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Name: Limi 13 April 2016


Word : empathy


Dictionary meaning - the ability to understand and share the feelings of another


Synonyms - rapport, insight, pity


Antonyms - hatred, indifference


Related words - empathetic


Sentence - Because her parents immigrated to the United States to give her a better life, Maria has empathy for illegal aliens.
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Name: Limi 13 April 2016


Word: Moral


Dictionary meaning - a lesson that can be derived from a story or experience


Synonyms - principled, proper


Antonyms - evil, fake, unjust


Related words - over moral, moral less


Sentence - he learnt a very moral lesson today.
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Name: Limi 13 April 2016


Word : significant


Dictionary meaning - sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention


Synonyms - important, powerful, symbolic


Antonyms - trivial, unimportant


Related words - significantly, nonsignificant


Sentence - Without any significant proof of his involvement, the man was let off with a stern warning.
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Name: Limi 13 April 2016


Word: reveal


Dictionary meaning - make (previously unknown or secret information) known to others


Synonyms - expose, admit


Antonyms - deny, hide


Related words - reveal ability, revealable ness


Sentence - I had to reveal the rabbit out of the hat in the magic show.


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Name: Limi 13 April 2016


Word: appeal


Dictionary meaning - make a serious, urgent, or heartfelt request


Synonyms -  demand, bid, peal


Antonyms - answer, reply


Related words - appealable, appealability


Sentence - her jokes are quickly losing appeal.


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Name: Limi 14 April 2016


Word : absolutely


Dictionary meaning - with no qualification, restriction, or limitation


Synonyms - totally, definitely


Antonyms - doubtful, uncertain


Sentence - I absolutely love cooking for the family every night.
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Name: Limi 14 April 2016


Word: avoid


Dictionary meaning - keep away from or stop oneself from doing something


Synonyms - bypass, dodge


Antonyms - face, meet, talk


Related words - avoidable, avoider


Sentence - every morning I come to school late to avoid fitness
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Name: Limi 14 April 2016


Word : alternative


Dictionary meaning - (one or more things) available as another possibility or choice


Synonyms - different


Antonyms - same


Related words - alternativeness, alternatively


Sentence -The only alternative to the abandonment of one is the loss of all.________________________________________________________________________


Name: Limi 14 April 2016


Word: apparently


Dictionary meaning - as far as one know or can see


Synonyms - the crack in the wall was


Antonyms - unlikely


Related words - apparent, self- apparent


Sentence - As this viral video shows, your vocal cords can apparently be a weapon


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Name: Limi 14 April 2016


Word: collapse


Dictionary meaning - When someone or something as fallen.


Synonyms -  crash, failure


Antonyms - merical, success, wonder.


Related words - pre collapse, uncollapse


Sentence - He nearly collapsed in the room.
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