DAILY VOCABULARY FOR 16TH & 17TH AUGUST

Corroborate (Verb)
Meaning: Give evidence for, Back up with evidence.
Synonyms: Validate, support, confirm, verify, endorse.
Antonyms: Reject, Disapprove, contradict.
Usage: Every one hastened to corroborate this verdict with some piece of evidence.
Ephemeral (Adjective)
Meaning: Lasting for short time
Synonyms: Temporary, Short-lived, transient.
Antonyms: long-lived, enduring, everlasting, eternal, perpetual.
Usage: time is ephemeral so don’t waste it.
Approbation (Noun)
Meaning: Official Approval.
Synonyms: Approval, Favor.
Antonyms: disapprobation, disapproval, disfavor.
Usage: Government gives its approbation to his selection.
Altruist (Noun)
Meaning: who make charitable donations
Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, charitable,
humanitarian, philanthropist, generous
Antonyms: self-centered, self-concerned, selfish.
Usage: Animals can have more altruistic behavior than humans.
Ardent (Adjective)
Meaning: Characterized by strong enthusiasm
Synonyms: Passionate, enthusiastic, zealous
Antonyms: apathetic, dull, calm.
Usage: One should be an ardent supporter for the right cause.
Quagmire (noun)
Meaning: a difficult or embarrassing situation from
which there is no easy escape
Synonyms: bind, dilemma, impasse, jam, predicament
Antonyms: advantage, solution, contentment Usage: He’s caught in a quagmire of debt.
Subtler (adjective)
Meaning: clever at attaining one’s ends by indirect
and often deceptive means
Synonyms: artful, cunning, devious, shrewd
Antonyms: artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent
Usage: There have been many subtler,
more original and more systematic thinkers about the conditions of the social union.
Proffer (verb)
Meaning: to put before another for acceptance
Synonyms: extend, offer, tender, propose, submit.
Antonyms: decline, deny, disapprove, reject.
Usage: It is the ultimate manifestation of
the marketplace of ideas; the more people
who proffer their ideas to the world, the better the outcome will be for us all.
Hoary (adjective)
Meaning: dating or surviving from the distant past
Synonyms: age-old, ancient, antediluvian, dateless, hoar, immemorial
Antonyms: modern, new, recent
Usage: The hoary house was built in the
eighteenth century and is now part of a museum.
CONCOMITANT (adjective)
Meaning: naturally accompanying or associated.
Synonyms: attendant, collateral, linked, accessory.
Antonyms: unassociated, indifferent, unbound.
Usage: That it is apparently devoid of
psychical concomitant need not imply that
the impressions concerned in it are crude
and in elaborate.
IDIOMS
“beat a dead horse”
ANIMAL IDIOM
Meaning: dwell on a topic beyond resolution
Sentence:
I told you several times that I won’t do it. Don’t beat a
dead horse!
“beast of burden”
ANIMAL IDIOM
Meaning: someone carries others problems
Sentence:
I will never be your beast of burden. You have got to
deal with your own problems.
“bark up the wrong tree”
ANIMAL IDIOM
Meaning: look in the wrong place or falsely accuse
Sentence:
He asked me if I broke his laptop. I said he was
barking up the wrong tree.

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