Word, part of speech | Definition | Synonym & Antonym | Sentence |
Harrowing, adjective | Really disturbing or distressing | S: heartbreaking, agonizing, painful A: calm, comfort, heartening | What she went through when her mother died was truly harrowing. |
Fastidious, adjective | Giving extreme attention to details, excessively concerned with cleanliness, hard to please. | S: exacting, hypercritical, picky A: easy-going, sloppy | He was the most fastidious teacher I’ve known, picked out every tiny detail we did wrong and made a fuss about it. |
Ameliorate, verb | Make something bad better | S: improve, help A: worsen | The teacher decided to ameliorate the test since the pass rate last year was really low. |
Evince, verb | To reveal a feeling or quality of someone or something | S: reveal, show A: conceal | The tone of his voice clearly evinced how he felt about the new building. |
Countenance, verb and noun | Noun: a person’s face Verb: to tolerate something | Verb: S: tolerate, allow A: criticize | Her countenance was easily won without force. |
Repose, noun and verb | Noun: rest, sleep Verb: to put something somewhere | Verb: S: lie, rest, situated A: strain, hard-working | She was reposed on the bed after a long day. |
Poignant, adjective | A sense of sadness or regret | S: touching, pitiful A: unaffecting | The movie was so poignant that he even cried as he watched. |
Inexorable, adjective | Impossible to stop | S: unstoppable, unavoidable, inevitable A: preventale | It is inexorable to see her this way since she’d been hiding it for too long. |
Capitulate, verb | To admit defeat | S: yield, surrender A: resist | The kingdom had already capitulated to us, since they were damaged badly now. |
Endeavor, verb & noun | Verb: to try to look for something Noun: an attempt to achieve something | Verb S: try, attempt Verb A: neglect Noun S: effort, attempt Noun A: inactivity | Their endeavor pleased and touched the king’s heart, so their will was granted. |
Capacious, adjective | Having a lot of space/room | S: roomy, spacious A: cramped, enclosed | The new location is clean and capacious, we could fit more than 15 tables in there. |
Acquit, verb | To act or behave well | S: perform, behave A: fail, halt | She acquitted well in her test, she even got a reward from her parents. |
Dauntless, adjective | Showing fearlessness, not hesitant and determined | S: fearless, determined A: weakheared | Joan of Arc was a dauntless individual at the battle, praised by all for her fearlessness. |
Inure, verb | Used to something unpleasant | S: harden, adapt A: sensitize | The children were abused so much that they were inured to violence. |
Derive, verb | To get something/obtain something from somewhere | S: obtain, gain A: Forfeit, reject | Her home was where they derived comfort and security from. |
Conjecture, verb | To form an opinion on incomplete information | S: imagine, speculate A: fact | Lots conjectured that the lunch for the day was terrible |
Peruse, verb | To read something closely | S: examine, read A: neglect | She perused the passage thoughtfully and wrote down her answer. |
Foreboding, noun | A bad feeling, that something bad will happen | S: apprehensive, anxiety A: calm | He had the foreboding sense that something might have happened to her. |
Ardent, adjective | Enthusiastic or passionate | S: passionate, eager A: half hearted | She was an adent fan of his. |
Vehemence, noun | The display of strong feeling, passion | S: urgency, intensity A: mildness | It was shown in his vehemence, that he was very interested in her. |
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