New Words for Today:
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Panacea (Noun)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists 2: (Greek mythology) the goddess of healing; daughter of Aesculapius and sister of Hygeia |
nostrum, catholicon, cure-all |
Colloquial (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English" |
formal, standard |
Felicity (Noun)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) 2: state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy |
happiness |
Affinity (Noun)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Noun |
1: a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; "an affinity for politics"; "the mysterious affinity between them"; "James's affinity with Sam" 2: inherent resemblance between persons or things; "there's a unique affinity between him and his father in the way they walk" 3: a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character; "found a natural affinity with the immigrants"; "felt a deep kinship with the other students"; "anthropology's kinship with the humanities" |
kinship |
Portentous (Adjective)
Type | Meaning | Synonyms | Antonyms |
Adjective |
1: of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision" 2: ominously prophetic 3: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek |
prodigious, fateful, foreboding, overblown, pompous |
Today's Vocabulary Challenges*** Answers will be in the next worksheet of this level *** |
Match Synonyms |
Match Antonyms |
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| 1 | vociferous | A | prodigious | 1: | 1 | gratuitous | A | stingy | 1: | |
| 2 | portentous | B | dogma | 2: | 2 | irrevocable | B | outsider | 2: | |
| 3 | panacea | C | nostrum | 3: | 3 | myopia | C | hyperopia | 3: | |
| 4 | tenet | D | kinship | 4: | 4 | clique | D | revocable | 4: | |
| 5 | affinity | E | blatant | 5: | 5 | benevolent | E | required | 5: | |
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| 1 | a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | A | colloquial | 1: |
| 2 | characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | B | clique | 2: |
| 3 | cause to lose courage | C | affinity | 3: |
| 4 | spend thoughtlessly; throw away | D | daunt | 4: |
| 5 | an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | E | squander | 5: |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Across: 1: an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority(8) 4: cause to lose courage(5) 5: tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health(8) 8: having a puzzling terseness(7) Down: 2: total forgetfulness(8) 3: place restrictions on(7) 6: inherent resemblance between persons or things(8) 7: a state or condition being blighted(6) |
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Engligh Language Trivia |
| What does Root word "auto" mean? Root word "auto" comes from Greek, meaning "self, same one". Examples: autocrat - a person who governs with absolute power; autograph - a person's own signature; automatic - moving by itself Did you know? - Study of grounds of knowledge is called "epistemology." |
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Recent Words Learned: portentous, affinity, felicity, colloquial, panacea, saccharine, relinquish, virtuoso, squander, irrevocable, daunt, tenet, vociferous, infinitesimal, peripatetic, implement, hedonism, guile, sanguine, peruse Answer to Crossword in worksheet 22: Across: 3: mitigate, 4: peruse, 5: placate, 7: flora, 8: permeate Down: 1: salutary, 2: efface, 3: monarchy, 6: tenet |
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