- TEDIOUS (Adjective)
Meaning: too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous.
Synonyms: dull, unexciting, unvaried, mundane
Antonyms: exciting, interesting
Usage: My professor’s tedious history lectures have the entire class yawning. - DISPOSITION (Noun)
Meaning: a person’s inherent qualities of mind and character.
Synonyms: nature, temperament
Antonyms: disinclination
Example: Although he may look ferocious, my pit bull has a gentle disposition. - ONUS (Noun)
Meaning: something that is one’s duty or responsibility.
Synonyms: burden, responsibility, liability, obligation
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, blessing
Example: As your mother, it is my onus to prepare you for a successful future. - EMBLEMATIC (Adjective)
Meaning: serving as a symbol of a particular quality or concept; symbolic.
Synonyms: symbolic, representative, demonstrative,
Antonyms: representational, realistic
Example: Waving to someone is an emblematic way to say goodbye. - INTERNMENT (Noun)
Meaning: the state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons.
Synonyms: restraint, restriction, entrapment,
Antonyms: emancipation, liberation, redemption,
Example: More than 110, 000 people were deposited in internment camps. - MIRE (Noun)
Meaning: a situation or circumstance from which it is difficult to escape.
Synonyms: entangle, embroil, enmesh, involve
Antonyms: cleanliness, solution, define, extricate
Example: The woman worked two jobs in order to remove herself from the mire of poverty. - INCITE (Verb)
Meaning: to encourage someone to do or feel something unpleasant or violent
Synonyms: abet, agitate
Antonyms: dampen, dissuade
Example: Did you know you could be arrested for trying to incite an uprising against the government? - ACUMEN (Noun)
Meaning: the ability to make good judgments and take quick decisions.
Synonyms: shrewdness, cleverness, smartness.
Antonyms: guilelessness, ingenuousness, artlessness,
Usage: His sharp business acumen meant he quickly rose to the top. - PLACATE (Verb)
Meaning: make (someone) less angry or hostile.
Synonym: appease, assuage, conciliate, pacify
Antonym: aggravate, annoy, bother, provoke
Usage: I tried to placate the sad little boy by giving him a cookie. - NUDGE (Verb)
Meaning: coax or gently encourage (someone) to do something.
Synonyms: prompt, encourage, coax, stimulate
Antonyms: discourage, dissuade
Sentence: We’re trying to nudge them towards a practical solution. - IDIOMS
Spick and span
Meaning: neat and clean
Example: The house was spick and span when the guests arrived. Jane must have been cleaning for hours.come to think of/about it
Meaning: something that has just occurred to us as we speak
Example: Come to think of it, add potatoes and carrots to the list.worm in the apple
Meaning: the presence of something very bad in the best
Example: There’s nothing worse than getting a worm in your apple!
