WORDS OF THE DAY

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high-toned - Pretentiously elegant.
Synonyms: high-class
Usage: She felt awkward and out of place in the high-toned restaurant, with its elegant décor and elite clientele.

all-out - Using all available resources.
Synonyms: full-scale
Usage: Holding nothing back, the candidate launched an all-out attack on his critics.

paltry - Contemptibly small in amount.
Synonyms: petty, trivial, trifling, beggarly, derisory, measly, piddling
Usage: The miserly millionaire was criticized for his paltry donation, but even public shaming was not enough to make him part with more money.

staid - Characterized by sedate dignity and often a strait-laced sense of propriety.
Synonyms: serious, sober, quiet, calm, grave, steady, composed, solemn
Usage: I instinctively stood up a little straighter when the staid duke entered the parlor.

unflinching - Showing neither fear nor indecision; resolute.
Synonyms: unintimidated, unshrinking, unblinking
Usage: He held a silent combat with his inward agony, defying, meanwhile, my sympathy with an unflinching, ferocious stare.

rotor - the rotating armature of a motor or generator
Antonyms: stator

unpersuasiveness - inability to persuade
Antonyms: strength

tonicity - the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity"
Antonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atony

ignominy - Great personal dishonor or humiliation.
Antonyms: credit, honour, repute
Usage: The celebrated actor suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison.

difficulty - the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
Antonyms: ease, easiness, simpleness, simplicity
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self-seeking - Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others.
Synonyms: opportunism, self-interest, expedience
Usage: He had one devoted friend at least, and he had conquered one soul in the world that was neither rudimentary nor tainted with self-seeking.

wrapper - A loose dressing gown for women.
Synonyms: housecoat, negligee, peignoir
Usage: She wore a faded old wrapper, and her gray hair was decidedly untidy.

excrescence - Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings.
Synonyms: extrusion, gibbosity, hump, jut, bulge, protrusion, protuberance, swelling, bump, prominence
Usage: A roof, Richard contended, was a part of the edifice that the ancients always endeavored to conceal, it being an excrescence in architecture that was only to be tolerated on account of its usefulness.

prehension - The act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles).
Synonyms: taking hold, grasping, seizing
Usage: A well-developed tail … might subsequently come to be worked in for all sorts of purposes, as a fly-flapper, an organ of prehension, or as an aid in turning.

lather - Agitation resulting from active worry.
Synonyms: fret, stew, swither, sweat
Usage: "I'm not going to get into a lather over this defeat," said the manager.

legalize - make legal
Antonyms: outlaw, criminalise, illegalise, criminalize
consecrate - render holy by means of religious rites
Antonyms: unhallow

blur - become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred"
Antonyms: focalize, focalise, focus

synthesize - combine so as to form a more complex, product; "his operas synthesize music and drama in perfect harmony"; "The liver synthesizes vitamins"
Antonyms: analyze, dissect, analyse

untie - undo the ties of; "They untied the prisoner"
Antonyms: bind
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recline - Lean in a comfortable resting position.
Synonyms: recumb, repose
Usage: After a particularly stressful day at work, Paige was eager to get into pajamas, recline on her couch, and watch TV.

ameliorate - To make better.
Synonyms: improve, amend
Usage: I sought to improve her manners and ameliorate her general tone.

galvanize - To stimulate to action.
Synonyms: startle
Usage: The appeal has galvanized them into taking positive action.

deface - Mar or spoil the appearance of.
Synonyms: blemish, disfigure
Usage: The vandals defaced the statue by drawing a mustache on it.

enshrine - Hold sacred.
Synonyms: saint
Usage: The apartheid system enshrines racism.

evenly - in equal amounts or shares; in a balanced or impartial way; "a class evenly divided between girls and boys"
Antonyms: unequally

fortunately - by good fortune; "fortunately the weather was good"
Antonyms: alas, regrettably, unluckily

privately - kept private or confined to those intimately concerned; "it was discussed privately between the two men"; "privately, she thought differently"; "some members of his own party hoped privately for his defeat"
Antonyms: in public, publically, publicly

disagreeably - in a disagreeable manner; "`I took no harm from the journey, thank you,' she said disagreeably"
Antonyms: enjoyably, pleasantly

wholly - to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was wholly convinced"
Antonyms: part, partially, partly
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voidance - The act of removing the contents of something.
Synonyms: emptying, evacuation
Usage: The voidance of one's inbox after a long vacation is an unenviable task.

bugaboo - An imaginary monster used to frighten children.
Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, bugbear
Usage: For me no terrors resided in the thought of bugaboos and wicked ogres.

get-go - The time at which something is supposed to begin.
Synonyms: commencement, offset, outset, showtime, start, beginning, kickoff, first
Usage: She knew from the get-go that he was the man for her.

discourtesy - A lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others.
Synonyms: offense
Usage: Over-much civility is sometimes no better than over-much discourtesy, for, as the saying is, one can choke a guest with curds.

backer - A person who gives financial or other support.
Synonyms: angel
Usage: After the backers withdrew their support, the director was forced to cancel the troupe's upcoming Shakespeare production.

reversible - capable of being reversed or used with either side out; "a reversible jacket"
Antonyms: one-sided

truculent - Defiantly aggressive.
Antonyms: civil, gentle, co-operative, agreeable, amiable, placid, good-natured, peaceable
Usage: Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.

accentual - (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity; "accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line"; "accentual rhythm"
Antonyms: quantitative

intangible - incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch; "the intangible constituent of energy"- James Jeans
Antonyms: touchable

cool - (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets; "cool greens and blues and violets"
Antonyms: warm, heat
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