- SALUBRIOUS (Adjective)
Meaning: something that is good for you or is beneficial to mind or body.
Synonyms: medicinal, tonic.
Antonyms: unhealthy, insalubrious.
Usage: Vegetables are salubrious foods which provide essential nutrients. - GRISLY (Adjective)
Meaning: causing horror or disgust.
Synonyms: gruesome, ghastly, frightful, horrid.
Antonyms: pleasant, attractive.
Usage: Because the crime scene video was extremely grisly, the television station decided to not air the footage. - ESOTERIC (Adjective)
Meaning: known about or understood by very few people.
Synonyms: abstruse, obscure, arcane.
Antonyms: simple, familiar.
Usage: Gerald was an eight-year-old genius who had esoteric interests much different from kids of a similar age. - SPLURGE (Verb)
Meaning: to spend extravagantly or ostentatiously.
Synonyms: squander, fling, dissipate, disburse.
Antonyms: accumulate, hoard, conserve, preserve.
Usage: Should I splurge on the really nice camera or just buy one of the cheap models? - REFRACTORY (Adjective)
Meaning: stubborn or unmanageable.
Synonyms: recalcitrant, obstreperous, insubordinate.
Antonyms: obedient, manageable, compliant.
Usage: To make his life easier, the store owner decided to fire the refractory workers who were difficult to manage. - PROTAGONISTS (Noun)
Meaning: the leading character or one of the major characters in a play, film, novel, etc.
Synonym: supporter, upholder.
Antonym: opponent.
Usage: The protagonist was willing to give his life for the woman he loved. - FLAWED (Adjective)
Meaning: having or characterized by a fundamental weakness or imperfection.
Synonym: unsound, defective.
Antonym: sound.
Usage: The only problem is that his research was flawed. - JUVENILE (Adjective)
Meaning: for or relating to young people.
Synonym: young, teenage.
Antonym: adult.
Usage: My forty-year-old brother and his friends are still pulling juvenile pranks on each other. - DILEMMA (Noun)
Meaning: a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives.
Synonym: quandary, predicament.
Antonym: benefit, a boon.
Usage: Our teacher presented us with a dilemma when he shared that we could choose where to take our yearly field trip. - DROVES (Noun)
Meaning: a herd or flock of animals being driven in a body.
Synonym: herd, flock, pack, fold.
Antonym: trickles.
Usage: The Medical Board will be back in droves tomorrow, he informed her. - IDIOMS
There are other fish in the sea
Meaning: It’s ok to miss this opportunity. Others will arise.There’s a method to his madness
Meaning: He seems crazy but actually he’s clever.There’s no such thing as a free lunch
Meaning: Nothing is entirely free.
