VOCABULARY
- STEELY (ADJECTIVE): cruel, heartless
Synonyms: brutal, callous
Antonyms: sympathetic, gentle
Example Sentence: My landlord is a steely lady.
- REMISS (ADJECTIVE): careless, thoughtless
Synonyms: lazy, forgetful
Antonyms: scrupulous, mindful
Example Sentence: You seem remiss with your future goals.
- STERN (ADJECTIVE): serious, authoritarian
Synonyms: harsh, rigid
Antonyms: easy, flexible
Example Sentence: My boss always carries a stern look on his face.
- IMMACULATE (ADJECTIVE): very clean; unspoiled
Synonyms: spotless, flawless
Antonyms: defective, imperfect
Example Sentence: His house is immaculate and surrounded by fresh flowers.
- SIMULACRUM (NOUN): copy
Synonyms: carbon, duplicate
Antonyms: dissimilarity, opposite
Example Sentence: The two sisters are a simulacrum of each other.
- EXIGUOUS (ADJECTIVE): scanty
Synonyms: bare, confined
Antonyms: plenty, many
Example Sentence: There are plenty of references to them indeed, but they are exiguous and dull.
- YORE (NOUN): time gone by
Synonyms: history, antiquity
Antonyms: future, present
Example Sentence: Those are the yore days when for teenagers their family was a priority than friends.
8 RECLAME (NOUN): promotion of something, someone
Synonyms: attention, fame
Antonyms: obscurity, secret
Example Sentence: This product needs a lot of reclame to be a successful product.
- QUERULOUS (ADJECTIVE): grouchy, hard to please
Synonyms: carping, captious
Antonyms: cheerful, happy
Example Sentence: Querulous people are hardly liked by anyone.
- MURKY (ADJECTIVE): gloomy, obscure
Synonyms: dark, dismal
Antonyms: bright, apparent
Example Sentence: Nobody knows why he likes to sit in murky surroundings.
