- HECKLE (Verb)
Meaning: to interrupt a speaker with insulting or rude comments.
Synonyms: bully, ridicule
Antonyms: please, praise
Usage: As they began to heckle the speaker with insulting gestures, the two protesters were escorted from the building. - REMINISCE (Verb)
Meaning: indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events.
Synonyms: recall, remind
Antonyms: disregard, ignore
Usage: When I eat sugar cookies, I reminisce about the childhood hours I spent making the treats with my grandmother. - INTIMIDATE (Verb)
Meaning: frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants.
Synonyms: dishearten, dismay, terrify
Antonyms: please, praise
Usage: The mob tries to intimidate shop owners into paying protection fees. - DOOMSDAY (Noun)
Meaning: the last day of the world’s existence.
Synonym: destiny, fate
Antonym: time off
Usage: You could wait till Doomsday and he’d never show up. - BECKONS (Verb)
Meaning: appear attractive or inviting; to motion for an individual to come closer.
Synonym: entice, invite
Antonym: repel, turn off
Usage: Because I was hungry, the restaurant seemed to beckon to me. - STATUTORY (Adjective)
Meaning: decided, controlled, or required by law.
Synonyms: legitimate, permissible, admissible,
Antonyms: illegal, irrelevant, unofficial.
Usage: When you buy foods you have certain statutory rights. - PREMONITION (Noun)
Meaning: a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant.
Synonym: foreboding, presage, presentiment,
Antonym: unawareness, disregard, ignorance.
Sentence: Although I had a dream of death that I took as a premonition, nobody I know has died yet. - PURITANICAL (Adjective)
Meaning: having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence.
Synonyms: prudish, puritan, prim, priggish.
Antonyms: lecherous, indulgent, indecent, debauched.
Usage: Their parents had a puritanical streak and didn’t approve of dancing. - MILEAGE (Noun)
Meaning: actual or potential benefit or use to be derived from a situation or event.
Synonyms: advantage, utility, gain, profit.
Antonyms: inappropriateness, uselessness, loss.
Usage: The newspapers wanted to get as much mileage from the story as they could. - FARCE (Noun)
Meaning: an absurd event; a ridiculous situation or event.
Synonyms: travesty, sham, masquerade, charade.
Antonyms: solemnity, reverence, seriousness,
Usage: The playwright wanted a thoughtful tragedy, but he ended up with a mere farce. - IDIOMS
Bring owls to Athens
Meaning: something that is pointless
Example: The chancellor has a plan to increase taxes, thinking that this would improve the economy. It would bring owls to Athens.bring up
Meaning: in the literal form, it means to take something to a higher place
Example: Please bring up some more blankets when you come to bed.buy the farm
Meaning: to die
Example: Mister Jack was really ill from the past two months and yesterday he bought the farm.
