- EMANCIPATE (Verb)
Meaning: to give people social or political freedom and rights.
Synonyms: discharge, liberate
Antonyms: confine, restrain
Usage: Women are still struggling to be fully emancipated. - SHUNT (Verb)
Meaning: to push or shove something
Synonyms: avoid, deter
Antonyms: aid, allow
Usage: Talk with my friend. Don’t shunt him aside. - UNABATED (Adjective)
Meaning: without any reduction in intensity or strength.
Synonyms: incessant, persistent
Antonyms: intermittent, relenting
Usage: The fighting has continued unabated for over 24 hours. - GRANULAR (Adjective)
Meaning: Resembling or consisting of small grains or particles.
Synonyms: powdery, grainy, gritty, sandy.
Antonyms: soft, fine, smooth, glossy.
Usage: Freeze dried instant coffee is always more granular and chunky than instant coffee powder. - ABHORRENT (Adjective)
Meaning: causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred
Synonyms: detestable, hateful, abominable, repugnant
Antonyms: acceptable, agreeable, alluring, delightful
Usage: As I looked around the filthy apartment, I had to wonder who could live in such abhorrent conditions. - CASTIGATED (Verb)
Meaning: reprimand (someone) severely.
Synonym: reprimand, rebuke
Antonym: praise, commend
Usage: How dare you castigate him when you have done the same thing in the past? - AMNESTY (Noun)
Meaning: an official pardon for people who have been convicted of criminal or political offences.
Synonyms: forgiveness, immunity, reprieve, absolution
Antonyms: acquittal, amnesty, compurgation,
Usage: The man’s petition for political amnesty was declined because of his violent criminal past. - BANE (Noun)
Meaning: a cause of great distress or annoyance.
Synonyms: scourge, plague, ruination, destruction.
Antonyms: benefit, blessing, boon, felicity.
Usage: The neighbours’ kids are the bane of my life. - VITIATE (Verb)
Meaning: spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.
Synonyms: annihilate, negate, quash
Antonyms: allow, permit
Usage: If you think that crossing your fingers behind your back is going to vitiate the promise you made, think again. - RETAIN (Verb)
Meaning: continue to have (something); keep possession of.
Synonyms: keep, hold, preserve
Antonyms: abandon, release
Usage: You have the right to retain possession of the goods. - IDIOMS
Under his thumb
Meaning: Used to describe a person who is under the control of someone.
Sentence: Ken is totally under his manager’s thumb.Make yourself at home
Meaning: Used in a context when you ask your guests to make themselves comfortable as if they were in their own homes.
Sentence: Anisa, this is your room. Make yourself at home!A Man of action
Meaning: Used to describe a person who talks less and acts more.
Sentence: Ben is really a man of action. Ever since he arrived he has done so much for the organization.
