Word, part of speech | Definition | Synonym & Antonym | Sentence |
Lament, verb | To mourn for a person’s lost | S: mourn, weep A: rejoice | She was lamenting over her husband’s death after the pestilence. |
Enigmatic, adjective | Difficult to understand | S: mysterious, baffling A: Straightforward | He was a man of many mysteries, an enigmatic teacher. |
Penance, noun | Voluntarily punishing oneself after doing wrong as an atonement | S: recompense, expiation A: remorselessness | He brought her flowers and chocolate as a penance for forgetting the time. |
Epithet, noun | A phrase describing a characteristic of a person/thing | S: sobriquet, byname A: N/A | He was awarded the epithet of a hero after he saved the cat. |
Solace, noun | Comfort during a time of distress | S: consolation, support A: torment | She was his place of solace during times of trouble. |
Sumptuous, adjective | Expensive looking | S: opulent, lavish A: plain | She had never seen a ball as sumptuous as this one was. |
Defile, verb | Ruining a good or clean thing | S: tarnish, taint A: purify | Her honor was defiled by that poor performance. |
Extenuate, verb | To make something offensive seem like not a big deal | S: vindicate, justify A: aggravate | His previous good deeds could not extenuate his poor behavior this time. |
Qualm, noun | An uneasy feeling | S: trepidation, unease A: confidence | He had felt some qualms about the new school. |
Entreat, verb | To ask something earnestly or anxiously for them to do something | S: beseech, obsecrate A: disregard | She entreated him to stop cutting strawberries into weird shapes. |
Amicable, adjective | Very friendly | S: courteous, civilized A: hostile | He was the most amicable person she’s known. |
Unmitigated, advective | Absolute and unqualified | S: downright, unmodified A: partial | She had an unmitigated amount of love for music. |
Rancor, verb | Longstanding bitterness for resentfulness | S: malignancy, perniciousness A: amicability | He stared at her with pure rancor in his face. |
Recompense, noun | A compensation for someone that had lost something | S: reparation, reimbursement A: repudiation | She did not ask him for a recompense, even after he did something so terrible. |
Reproach, verb | To address someone or something with a disapproving attitude | S:rebuke, lecture A: praise | She gave him a look of reproach after he betrayed everyone. |
Impediment, noun | Something that prevents something from doing something | S: hindrance, obstruction A: benefit | He told them that he had a driving impediment so he shouldn’t drive long distance. |
Vanquish, verb | To defeat thoroughly | S: conquer, subdue A: liberate | He vanquished his enemies during the game. |
Appertain, verb | To relate to or to concern | S: affect, pertain to A: irrelevant | The answer to that doesn’t appertain to her needs. |
Ensue, verb | Happened after something as a result | S: derive, emerge A: fade | Their meeting ensued a new loving relationship. |
Impious, adjective | Not showing respect, usually to God in context | S: profane, godless A: pious | His actions had proven to the school of his impious nature. |
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