- PUTSCH (Noun)
Meaning: a violent attempt to overthrow a government
Synonym: Group action, takeover
Antonym: Segregation, cooperation
Usage: It was also another putsch, another military putsch, very violent. - WRITHE (Verb)
Meaning: Make continual twisting
Synonym: Worm, Move
Antonym: Untwist, ride
Usage: They are born artists: dancers who writhe rhythmically. - INEXORABLE (Adjective)
Meaning: Impossible to stop or prevent
Synonym: intransigent, unbending
Antonym: Kind, Nice
Usage: Her inexorable discipline soon made the shivali a model for the rest of her team. - GARNER (Verb)
Meaning: gather or collect (something, especially information or approval).
Synonyms: gather, collect, accumulate, amass, assemble
Antonyms: disperse, distribute
Usage: The church members are trying to garner enough funds to purchase the pastor a new house. - TRAMMEL (Noun)
Meaning: restrictions or impediments to freedom of action.
Synonyms: restraint, constraint, curb, check, impediment,
Antonyms: help, assistance
Usage: Protesters refused to let anyone trammel their first amendment rights and pushed for freedom and equality for all. - DYNAMISM (noun)
Meaning: the fact of two or more events or circumstances happening or existing at the same time.
Synonym: beans, bounce, dash, drive, energy, esprit
Antonym: lethargy, sluggishness, torpidity
Usage: Voters were attracted to the young challenger’s dynamism, charisma, and progressive ideas. - PLURALISM (noun)
Meaning: the quality or state of being plural
Synonym: more than one, double, multiple.
Antonym: single, only one, one at a time.
Usage: He spoke of the benefits of cultural pluralism. - LAUDABLE (Adjective)
Meaning: deserving of high regard or great approval
Synonym: admirable, applaudable, commendable, credible, estimable
Antonym: censurable, discreditable, reprehensible
Usage: You showed laudable restraint in dealing with that ridiculously demanding customer. - FERVOUR (Noun)
Meaning: great warmth and earnestness of feeling
Synonym: ardor, passion, zeal.
Antonym: impassiveness, impassivity, insensibility, insensibleness
Usage: Surprised by the fervor that her parents’ old love letters contained when she discovered them in the attic. - EVANGELIZE (noun)
Meaning: to try to convert (a group or area) to a different religion (especially Christianity).
Synonym: lecture, preach, preachify, sermonize
Antonym: dissuade, endure, hold, idle, keep
Usage: The missionaries set out to evangelize the world. - IDIOMS
“old hand”
BODY IDIOM
Meaning: experienced person
Sentence:
Peter is an old hand when analyzing the stock market.
“over my dead body”
BODY IDIOM
Meaning: to do anything to prevent something from happening, an exaggerated way of saying, “Absolutely not”
Sentence: My son wanted to get a face tattoo, but I told him over my dead body.
“pat on the back”
BODY IDIOM
Meaning: give recognition
Sentence:
You deserve a pat on the back for fixing the furnace.
