- SEDITION (Noun)
Meaning: conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
Synonyms: incitement, provocation, agitation.
Antonyms: submission, appeasement, devotion.
Usage: In some nations, the government censors television networks in order to prevent sedition. - CARTEL (Noun)
Meaning: an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.
Synonyms: consortium, alliance, union, confederation.
Antonyms: disunion, separation, distribution.
Usage: The price of corn is high due to the newly created cartel. - EXTERNALITY (Noun)
Meaning: the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior.
Synonyms: area, expanse, exterior, façade, face.
Antonyms: core, interior, middle, center, inside.
Usage: As industrial production has fallen so have associated negative externalities, leading to reductions in air, water, soil, and noise pollution. - BELEAGUER (Verb)
Definition: lay siege to.
Synonyms: besiege, beset, pester, badger.
Antonyms: aid, amend, alleviate, encourage.
Example: If we do not spray our house with insect repellant, mosquitos will beleaguer us all summer. - ASPERSION (Noun)
Meaning: an attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something.
Synonyms: denigration, defamation
Antonyms: adulation, commendation
Usage: Because I know Jenny is a kind person, I cannot believe the negative aspersion about her. - INCANDESCENT (Adjective)
Meaning: extremely bright.
Synonyms: bright, illuminating
Antonyms: gloomy, murky
Example: Before we put the incandescent lights in the front yard, we could barely see anything at night. - ACCRETIVE (Adjective)
Meaning: produced by or growing by a series of additions of identical or similar things
Synonyms: cumulative, additive
Antonyms: degressive, decremental
Example: None of these offers on the table are accretive to earnings. - ECHELON (Noun)
Meaning: a level or rank in an organization, a profession, or society.
Synonyms: status, rank, grade, stratum.
Antonyms: slope, unemployment, unsettle.
Usage: Only members of society’s highest echelon can afford to own airplanes. - HURL (Verb)
Meaning: throw or impel (someone or something) with great force.
Synonyms: fling, cast, project, propel.
Antonyms: dawdle, dally, amble, plod.
Usage: When Sarah teased her little brother, he took the book in his hand and decided to hurl it at her breaking her nose. - LOCUS STANDI (Noun)
Meaning: the right or capacity to bring an action or to appear in a court.
Synonyms: bring legal proceedings, right to litigation
Antonyms: boon, good fortune, solution
Usage: The result is that you have no locus standi as - IDIOMS
“From Soup to Nuts”
FOOD IDIOM
Meaning: Everything; from beginning to end
Usage:
Amazon started out as a bookseller, but now they offer everything from soup to nuts.“In a Pickle”
FOOD IDIOM
Meaning: In need of help, in a difficult spot
Usage: I’m really in a pickle. I spent all the money I had saved, and I have no way to pay next semester’s tuition bill.“Low-Hanging Fruit”
FOOD IDIOM
Meaning: Easy parts of a task; solutions easy to obtain
Usage: It’s easy to solve those puzzles – they’re low-hanging fruit. But the Sunday puzzle is much more difficult.
