- Arduous (adjective)
Meaning: Involving or requiring strenuous effort
Synonyms: Difficult, hard, heavy
Antonyms: Helpful, effortless, easy
Usage: It was not an arduous task as it seemed to be. - Gratis (adjective)
Meaning: Given or done nothing free
Synonyms: Costless, chargeless
Antonyms: Costly, expensive
Usage: Delhi government is planning to provide a gratis ride to all women travelers. - Verbosity (Noun)
Meaning: wordiness, the quality of using more words than needed.
Synonyms: garrulous, prolixity
Antonyms: brevity, taciturnity
Usage: He found his tribe in politics, a profession where his verbosity was an asset. - Bagatelle (Noun)
Meaning: A thing of little importance
Synonyms: Frippery, Nothing
Antonyms: Succeed, Importance
Usage: I would like to point out that that sum is a mere bagatelle of the whole revenue. - Resurge (Verb)
Meaning: To rise again.
Synonyms: Revival, rebirth
Antonyms: lapse, breakdown
Usage: If you have lost your inner motivation, do not worry, hopefully, it will resurge. - OVERTURE (noun)
Meaning: an introduction to something more substantial.
Synonyms: prelude, introduction, opening, voluntary.
Antonyms: conclusion, epilogue, aftermath, coda.
Usage: He spent more time with the orchestra, with the overture in the beginning of the show than the whole block of the show. - HEFT (verb)
Meaning: lift or carry (something heavy).
Synonyms: lift, heave, hoist, haul.
Antonyms: lower, drop, fix, dodge.
Usage: Reluctantly, she hefted herself up and picked up the phone. - SUPERANNUATED (adjective)
Meaning: outdated or obsolete through age or new developments
Synonyms: anachronistic, antiquated, obsolete.
Antonyms: modern, modish, newfangled, modernized.
Usage: The information on my website was superannuated and needed updating. - STEER (verb)
Meaning: Guide the movement or course of.
Synonyms: guide, conduct, direct, lead.
Antonyms: abandon, ashore, fuddle, trail.
Usage: I held back a smile at his obvious attempt to steer me back on course. - Brickbat (noun)
Meaning: an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another’s feelings
Synonyms: affront, barb, epithet, indignity.
Antonyms: accolade, compliment, acclaim.
Usage: The candidates were reduced to
hurling brickbats at each other. - IDIOMS
“face the music”
BODY IDIOM
Meaning: deal with unpleasant consequences
Sentence:
The man confessed to the crime and faced the music in prison.
“flesh and blood”
BODY IDIOM
Meaning: family
Sentence:
I can’t fire my brother. He’s my own flesh and blood.
“foot the bill”
BODY IDIOM
Meaning: pay for something
Sentence:
I’ll foot the bill and pay for everyone’s meal at the restaurant.
