Daily Vocabulary 27-February-2016

1. Grim:

Part of Speech: adjective

Definition: hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance

Synonyms: austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glowering, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, horrid, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, scowling, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, splenetic, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding

Antonyms: bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny

2.Trajectory :

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: course

Synonyms: curve, direction, flight, flow, line, movement, orbit, path, range, route, track, trail


3.Outpost:

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: remote station

Synonyms: boundary, frontier, position, settlement, station


4.Turbulence :

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: agitation

Synonyms: bluster, commotion, disorder, disturbance, fight, fracas, frenzy, fury, havoc, tumult, turmoil, uproar

Antonyms: calmness, peace


5.Impede:

Part of Speech: verb

Definition: obstruct, hinder

Synonyms: bar, block, blow whistle on, brake, check, clog, close off, cramp one's style, curb, cut off, dam, delay, deter, discomfit, disconcert, disrupt, embarrass, faze, flag one, freeze, hamper, hang up, hold up, interfere, oppose, rattle, restrain, retard, saddle with, shut down, shut off, slow, slow down, stonewall, stop, stymie, thwart

Antonyms: advance, aid, assist, facilitate, forward, help, support



6.Entice:

Part of Speech: verb

Definition: allure; persuade

Synonyms: attract, bait, bat eyes at, beguile, cajole, coax, decoy, draw, entrap, inveigle, lead on, lure, prevail on, seduce, tempt, toll, turn on, wheedle

Antonyms: disgust, dissuade, repel, repulse, turn away, turn off


7.Rehabilitation:

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: restoration

Synonyms: improvement, overhaul, reclamation, reconstruction, recovery, reestablishment, reformation, repair


8.Reckon:

Part of Speech: verb

Definition: add up; evaluate

Synonyms: account, appraise, approximate, calculate, call, cast, cipher, compute, conjecture, consider, count, count heads, count noses, deem, enumerate, esteem, estimate, figure, figure out, foot, gauge, guess, hold, judge, keep tabs, look upon, number, place, put, rate, regard, run down, square, sum, surmise, take account of, tally, think of, tick off, tot, tot up, total, tote, tote up, view

Antonyms: neglect, subtract

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