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 Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 6:13 pm
www.thefreedictionary.com
For 1/30/15
Affiance - To bind in a pledge of marriage; betroth.
Synonyms: plight, engage
Usage: I have been affianced to a fine young man and am looking forward to my upcoming nuptials.
Languish - To suffer deprivation, hardship, or neglect.
Synonyms: decline, waste away, fade away, flag, weaken, wilt
Usage: He languished in prison for nearly two decades before he was exonerated.
Embitter - Cause to be bitter or resentful.
Synonyms: acerbate, envenom
Usage: He would not let this bad experience embitter him and resolved to maintain a positive outlook on life.
Meditate - Reflect deeply on a subject.
Synonyms: mull, muse, ponder, think over, excogitate, ruminate, speculate, contemplate
Usage: I will meditate on the problem and see if I can come up with a solution.
defile - To damage or sully (someone's good name, reputation, etc.).
Synonyms: sully, taint, corrupt, cloud
Usage: My father was an honest man, and I will not allow you to defile his memory by publishing an article that casts suspicion on his business dealing
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:55 pm
adorable - Lovable especially in a childlike or naive way.
Synonyms: endearing, lovely
Usage: She frowned at his facetiousness—a pretty, adorable frown that made him put his arm around her and kiss it away.
funereal - Suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial.
Synonyms: sepulchral
Usage: The bed and chamber were so funereal and gloomy, you might have fancied, not only that Lady Crawley died in the room, but that her ghost inhabited it.
finicky - Excessively particular, as in tastes or standards.
Synonyms: picky, fussy
Usage: She is incredibly finicky about her food and will not eat anything prepared by a stranger.
addlepated - Stupid and confused.
Synonyms: muddleheaded, puddingheaded
Usage: George was so shocked by the failure of his overseas investments that he began babbling to his accountant like an addlepated nincompoop.
antediluvian - So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period.
Synonyms: antiquated, archaic
Usage: My grandfather's antediluvian ideas about relationships and marriage are frequently at odds with my views.
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:13 pm
spellbound - Having your attention fixated as though by a spell.
Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotized, mesmerized, transfixed
Usage: Nobody thought about her appearance when the power and magic of her voice caught and held her listeners spellbound.
ethnic - Denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people.
Synonyms: cultural
Usage: In my family, holidays are celebrated with lavish meals featuring ethnic foods that remind us of our ancestors' Eastern European roots.
superable - Capable of being surmounted or excelled.
Synonyms: conquerable
Usage: Bankruptcy is unpleasant, to say the least, but it is a superable problem.
eldritch - Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences.
Synonyms: uncanny, weird, unearthly
Usage: An eldritch screech from someone—or something—in the distance sent chills down my spine.
inexpugnable - Incapable of being overcome, challenged, or refuted.
Synonyms: impregnable
Usage: I felt the inexpugnable strength of common sense being insidiously menaced by this gruesome, by this insane, delusion.
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:16 pm
reaper - Someone who helps to gather the harvest.
Synonyms: harvester
Usage: He was laying about him lustily with his sheath-knive, lopping the canes right and left, like a reaper, and soon made quite a clearing around us.
braggadocio - Vain and empty boasting.
Synonyms: rodomontade, bluster
Usage: Strutting about with great show and braggadocio, he strove to impress his followers.
lying-in - Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child.
Synonyms: childbed, confinement, parturiency, travail, labor
Usage: After seven hours of lying-in, Carol gave birth to a beautiful and healthy baby girl.
moonshine - Whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash.
Synonyms: bootleg, corn liquor
Usage: I drank too much moonshine last night, and now I have a terrible hangover.
clincher - An argument that is conclusive.
Synonyms: determiner
Usage: My final point was the clincher and won me the debate.
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Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:22 pm
plethora - Extreme excess.
Antonyms: lack, shortage, deficiency, want, scarcity, dearth
Usage: The mind of man can scarce conceive the plethora of carnivorous life in this lost world; and their prey, of course, is even more abundant.
vituperation - Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter, deep-seated ill will.
Antonyms: praise, approval, acclaim, tribute, flattery, eulogy, commendation
Usage: From one open shop came the sound of blows and vituperation, and just as the officer came up to it a man in a gray coat with a shaven head was flung out violently.
forbearance - Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence.
Antonyms: anger, impatience, intolerance, irritability, shortness, impetuosity
Usage: Nevertheless, his army rebelled in Spain; this arose from nothing but his too great forbearance, which gave his soldiers more license than is consistent with military discipline.
ascendancy - The state that exists when one person or group has power over another.
Antonyms: weakness, inferiority, subordination, subjection, servility
Usage: Thanks to widespread governmental corruption and instability, the extremists are gaining ascendancy in the region.
ingress - The act of going or coming in; an entering.
Antonyms: egress, emersion
Usage: From the time elapsing between the ingress of the beast and the screams, it seems probable that it was not immediately perceived.
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