Vocab Master Day – 74

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1.Perfidious

Meaning: deceitful and untrustworthy.

Synonym: treacherous, duplicitous, deceitful, disloyal, faithless,

unfaithful, traitorous

Antonym: faithful, loyal

Sentence: “a perfidious lover”

2.Revulsion

Meaning: a sense of disgust and loathing.

Synonym: disgust, repulsion, abhorrence,

Sentence:”news of the attack will be met with sorrow and

revulsion”

3.Eulogize

Meaning: praise highly in speech or writing.

Synonym: acclaim, extol;

Antonym: criticize

Sentence: “he was eulogized as a rock star”

4.Valorize

Meaning: give or ascribe value or validity to.

Synonym: Price -fixing

Sentence: the culture valorizes the individual”

5.Lamentation

Meaning: the passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping.

Synonym: crying, sobbing, moaning

Sentence: “scenes of lamentation”

6.Tautology

Meaning: the saying of the same thing twice over in different

words, generally considered to be a fault of style

Synonym: repetition, repetitiveness

Sentence: When the lawyer spoke to the jury, he used tautology

to make the jurors aware of his point without being repetitive.

7.Sinuous

Meaning: having many curves and turns.

Synonym: windy, serpentine, curving, twisting

Antonym: straight

Sentence: “the river follows a sinuous trail through the dale”

8.Altercation

Meaning: a noisy argument or disagreement, especially in public.

Synonym: argument, quarrel, squabble, fight,

Sentence:”I had an altercation with the ticket collector”

9.Sentinel

Meaning: a soldier or guard whose job is to stand and keep watch.

Synonym: guard, keeper

Sentence: “soldiers stood sentinel with their muskets”

10.Laggard

Meaning: a person who makes slow progress and falls behind

others.

Synonym: straggler, loiterer, lingerer, dawdler

Sentence:”staff were under enormous pressure and there was no

time for laggards


 

 

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