DAILY VOCABULARY FOR 20TH & 21TH SEPTEMBER

PRATTLE (Verb)
Meaning: talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way.
Synonyms: chatter, babble, prate, ramble.
Antonyms: quiet, silence, enunciate, articulate.
Usage: To make others envious, Reena likes to prattle on about her great job.
TROVE (Noun)
Meaning: a store of valuable or delightful things.
Synonyms: accumulation, agglomeration, backlog, conglomeration.
Antonyms: junk, dispersion, reduction, shrinkage.
Usage: I discovered a trove of candy bars and pop tarts in my teen son’s pillowcase.
PALLIATE (Verb)
Meaning: make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe without removing the cause.
Synonyms: alleviate, relieve, soothe, assuage.
Antonyms: heighten, intensify, aggravate, exacerbate.
Usage: This medicine should palliate your cough at least a little.
REPINE (Verb)
Meaning: feel or express discontent; fret.
Synonyms: mope, languish, despondent, lament.
Antonyms: complacent, fulfilled, rejoice, contented.
Usage: The soldiers repine for their families when they are stationed overseas.
PROTEAN (Adjective)
Meaning: tending or able to change frequently or easily.
Synonyms: variable, inconsistent, erratic, fluctuating.
Antonyms: consistent. continual, incessant, constant.
Usage: I am unable to make a final decision because of my protean nature which makes me indecisive.
Concurrence (Noun)
Meaning: the fact of two or more events or circumstances happening or existing at the same time.
Synonym: concordance, cooperation, coincidence.
Antonym: dissonance, discord.
Usage: Because the events ran in concurrence, the coordinator could not attend both parties at the same time.
Unprecedented (Adjective)
Meaning: never done or known before.
Synonym: unequalled, unmatched, unrivalled.
Antonym: precedented, familiar, usual.
Usage: The damage caused by the hurricane is unprecedented and has never been experienced before in this country.
Culmination (Noun)
Meaning: the highest or climactic point of something, especially as attained after a long time.
Synonym: climax, pinnacle, peak.
Antonym: nadir, base, bottom.
Usage: Their arrest was the culmination of an operation in which 120 other people were detained.
Stable (Adjective)
Meaning: not likely to give way or overturn; firmly fixed.
Synonym: steady, secure, fixed
Antonym: unstable, unbalanced, rickety.
Usage: Markets are flourishing and prices are stable.
Bifurcation (Noun)
Meaning: the division of something into two branches or parts.
Synonym: pronged, diverge, bisect.
Antonym: adjoin, attach, add.
Usage: As the rivers creep farther down the delta, they become more and more sluggish, and their bifurcations more complicated.
IDIOMS :
“butter someone up”
FOOD IDIOMS
Meaning: be really nice to someone
Usage: You had better butter me up if you want a raise in salary.
“cheap as chips”
FOOD IDIOM
Meaning: very inexpensive
Usage: This cup of coffee was only 200 rupees. Cheap as chips!
“cook the books”
FOOD IDIOM
Meaning: dishonest accounting
Usage: Let’s cook the books so we can avoid paying higher taxes.

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