VOCAB OF THE DAY

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  1. DISCLOSE (VERB): To make known (something private or secret).

Synonyms: divulge, expose

Antonyms: cover, hide

Example Sentence: Then bending again to Raoul, he whispered: “Above all things do not diclose your name.

  1. SMIRK (VERB): smile coyly

Synonyms: sneer, simper

Antonyms: frown, cry

Example Sentence: “I hope I see you well, Miss Florence,” she smirked.

  1. AMBULATORY (ADJECTIVE): recovering from illness

 Synonyms: ambulatory, healing

 Antonym: regressing, deteriorating

Example Sentence: I treated him as an ambulatory person, not as a sick man.

  1. COMPREHEND (VERB): understand

Synonyms: comprehend, fathom

 Antonyms: neglect, ignore

 Example Sentence: It is hard to comprehend the pain felt at the death of a child.

  1. BLURRED (ADJECTIVE): unclear

Synonyms: incoherent, ambiguous

Antonyms: clear, unambiguous

Example Sentence: He made a blurred sketch at the back of his book.

  1. REVENGE(NOUN): reaction to a wrong action

Synonyms: vengeance, retribution

 Antonym: forgiveness, pardon

Example Sentence:Yes, I will take revenge from all the failures that I have suffered.

  1. IMPLORE (VERB): beg earnestly

Synonyms: beseech, adjure

Antonyms: donate, give

Example Sentence: She implored him to cut his drinking and smoking.

  1. ABRADE(VERB): to be angry

Synonyms: irritate, chafe

Antonyms: soothe, appease

Example Sentence: He abraded at having to take orders from a junior.

 

  1. DIMINUTIVE (ADJECTIVE): small and weak

Synonyms: inconsequential, puny

Antonyms: giant, mammoth

 Example sentence: His mother stood looking on, with a sad kind of a smile on her lips and in her eyes, to see the zealous and yet diminutive efforts of her little boy.

 

  1. HUNCH (NOUN): guess; speculation

Synonyms: guesswork, conjecture

Antonyms: certainty, fact

 Example Sentence: The commentators had various hunches about the outcome of the next election.