Wordly Wize Chapter 13
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- abstain
- Part of Speech: verb Definition: hold back from doing Synonyms: abjure, abnegate, avoid, cease, constrain, curb, decline, deny oneself, do without, eschew, evade, fast, fence-sit, forbear, forgo, give the go by, give up, go on the wagon, keep from, pass, pass up, quit, refrain, refuse, renounce, shun, sit on one's hands, sit on the fence, sit out, spurn, starve, stop, take the cure, take the pledge, withhold
- aggravate
- Part of Speech: verb Definition: annoy Synonyms: be at, be on the back of, bother, bug, bum*, dog, drive up the wall, exasperate, gall, get, get on one's nerves, get to, give a hard time, grate, hack, irk, irritate, nag, needle, nettle, peeve, pester, pick on, pique, provoke, tease, vex, wig Antonyms: appease, gladden, make happy, mollify, soften
- avalanche
- Part of Speech:noun Definition: falling large mass; sudden rush of large quantity Synonyms: barrage, deluge, flood, inundation, landslide, landslip, snowslide, torrent
- collaborate
- Part of Speech: verb Definition: work together Synonyms: be in cahoots, coact, cofunction, collude, come together, concert, concur, conspire, cooperate, coproduce, do business with, get together, glue oneself to, go partners, hook on, hook up, interface, join forces, join together, join up with, participate, team up, throw in together, throw in with, tie in, work with Antonyms: disagree, divorce, part
- creditor
- Part Of Speech: Noun Definition: a person or firm to whom money is due
- exaggerate
- Part of Speech: verb Definition: overstate, embellish Synonyms: amplify, blow out of proportion, boast, boost, brag, build up, caricature, color, cook up, corrupt, distort, embroider, emphasize, enlarge, exalt, expand, fabricate, falsify, fudge, go to extremes, heighten, hike, hyperbolize, inflate, intensify, lay it on thick, lie, loud talk, magnify, make too much of, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, overdo, overdraw, overemphasize, overestimate, pad, pretty up, puff, put on, pyramid, romance, romanticize, scam, stretch, up* Antonyms: depreciate, minimize, play down, reduce, understate
- expose
- Part of Speech:noun Definition: disclosure Synonyms:betrayal, confession, construction, divulgence, exegesis, explanation, explication, exposal, exposition, exposure, interpretation, revelation, truth, uncovering Antonyms: secret, silence
- fateful
- Part of Speech: adjective Definition: significant Synonyms: acute, apocalyptic, conclusive, critical, crucial, decisive, determinative, direful, doomful, eventful, important, inauspicious, momentous, ominous, portentous, resultful Antonyms:insignificant, unimportant
- fume
- Part of Speech: verb Definition: get very upset about Synonyms:anger, blow up, boil, bristle, burn, chafe, chomp at the bit, get hot, get steamed up, rage, rant, rave, seethe, smoke*, storm* Antonyms:be calm, be happy
- impasse
- Part of Speech: noun Definition: stalemate Synonyms: Catch-22, box*, cessation, corner*, cul-de-sac, dead end, deadlock, dilemma, fix, gridlock, jam, mire*, morass, pause, pickle, plight, predicament, quandary, rest, scrape*, standoff, standstill Antonyms: agreement, breakthrough
- mite
- Part of Speech: noun Definition: small insect Synonyms: acarid, atom, bit, bug, insect, iota, minim, minute, molecule, mote, nit, parasite, particle, smidgen, speck, tick
- passage
- Part of Speech: noun Definition: path for travel Synonyms: access, alley, alleyway, avenue, channel, corridor, course, doorway, entrance, entrance hall, exit, gap, hall, hallway, lane, line, lobby, opening, pathway, road, route, shaft, subway, thoroughfare, tunnel, vestibule, way Antonyms: blockage, stop
- premonition
- Part of Speech: noun Definition: feeling that an event is about to occur Synonyms:apprehension, apprehensiveness, feeling, feeling in bones, foreboding, forewarning, funny feeling, handwriting on wall, hunch, idea, intuition, misgiving, omen, portent, prenotion, presage, presentiment, sign, sinking feeling, suspicion, vibes, vibrations, warning, wind change, winds, winds of change, worriment
- shrew
- Part of Speech: noun Definition: mean lady Synonyms: amazon, backbiter, battle-ax, biddy, bitch, calumniator, carper, detractor, dragon, fire-eater, fishwife, fury, harpy, harridan, hell cat, hellion, hussy, madcap, muckraker, nag, ogress, old biddy, porcupine, reviler, scold, she-devil, she-wolf, siren, spitfire, termagant, tigress, virago, vituperator, vixen, wench
- toady
- Part of Speech: noun Definition: sycophant Synonyms: adulator, apple polisher, ass-kisser, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlicker, brownnoser, doormat, doter, fan, fawner, flatterer, flunky, groupie, hanger-on, kiss-up, lackey, minion, teacher's pet, yes-person
- unearthly
- Part of Speech: adjective Definition: supernatural; very strange Synonyms: abnormal, absurd, appalling, demoniac, devilish, eerie, ethereal, extraordinary, fiendish, frightening, funereal, ghastly, ghostly, ghoulish, hair-raising, haunted, heavenly, hyperphysical, miraculous, nightmarish, not of this world, phantom, preternatural, ridiculous, scary, sepulchral, spectral, spooky*, sublime, superhuman, uncanny, ungodly, unholy, unreasonable, weird Antonyms: earthly, natural, physical