- PRAGMATISM (Noun)
Meaning: the quality of dealing with a problem in a sensible way rather than following fixed theories.
Synonyms: prudence, expediency, practicality.
Antonyms: idealism, impracticality, timidity.
Usage: Detectives often practice pragmatism on a case by using common sense and cause and effect techniques to determine who is a suspect. - BOLSTER (Verb)
Meaning: to make something stronger or bolder.
Synonyms: strengthen, support, reinforce, boost
Antonyms: undermine
Usage: Raising your voice is not a good way to bolster your position during an argument. - ABET (Verb)
Meaning: encourage or assist (someone) to do something wrong.
Synonyms: foment, incite, instigate, provoke.
Antonyms: constrain, restrain, allay, soothe.
Usage: The grandmother was arrested for trying to abet her grandson, a prison escapee. - BUCOLIC (Adjective)
Meaning: relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life.
Synonyms: rustic, rural, pastoral, country
Antonyms: urban
Usage: Even though I was born in the city, I still prefer the quiet of a small bucolic village any day. - ENFEEBLEMENT (Noun)
Meaning: a gradual sinking and wasting away of mind or body.
Synonym: decaying, decline, degeneration, descent,
Antonym: comeback, improvement, rally, recovery,
Usage: He was now over fifty and his sight showed serious symptoms of enfeeblement. - COMMENCE (Verb)
Meaning: to start an event or work.
Synonyms: began, inaugurate, start, launch, arise.
Antonyms: close, end, finish, conclude, complete.
Sentence: The Saturday workshop will commence exactly at 8:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. sharp. - SLAMMED (Verb)
Meaning: shut or crtiticize forcefully or loudly.
Synonyms: smash, slap, criticize, beat, knock, strike.
Antonyms: praise, aid, assist, open.
Sentence: The little girl accidentally slammed her hand in the door, crushing her fingers under its weight. - FIERY (Adjective)
Meaning: consisting of fire or burning strongly and brightly.
Synonym: burning, blazing
Antonym: bland, indifferent
Usage: The depressed teenager said that he wanted to die in a fiery explosion that would blow up his school. - ETCHING (Noun)
Meaning: a print produced by the process of etching.
Synonym: engraving, print,
Antonym: erase, expunge, obliterate.
Usage: There are three types of patterns formed by acid-etching. - AXIOMATIC (Adjective)
Meaning: evident without proof or argument.
Synonym: understood, given, granted, self-evident
Antonym: misunderstood, uncertain
Usage: There was a time when it was regarded as axiomatic that the sun revolves around the earth. - IDIOMS
Dead wood
Meaning: People or things which are no longer useful or necessary.
Example: The company bought in a lot of new computers. They no longer want the dead woods.Get the axe
Meaning: lose the job.
Example: The projects team was undergoing a major restructuring, recruitment executives were the first to get the axe.Plum job
Meaning: Desirable position which is well-paid and considered relatively easy.
Example: This looks like a plum job but it has its own bunch of complications.
