VOCABURY FOR SEPTEMBER 30, 2017
- DIVULGE (VERB): To make known (something private or secret). Synonyms: disclose, expose
Antonyms: conceal, hide
Example Sentence: Then bending again to Raoul, he whispered: “Above all things do not divulge your name.
- SIMPER (VERB): smile coyly
Synonyms: sneer, smirk
Antonyms: frown, growl
Example Sentence: “I hope I see you well, Miss Florence,” she simpered.
- CONVALESCENT (ADJECTIVE): recovering from illness
Synonyms: ambulatory, healing
Antonym: regressing, sickly
Example Sentence: I treated him as a convalescent, not as a sick man.
- FATHOM (VERB): measure the depth (of feeling)
Synonyms: comprehend, penetrate
Antonyms: neglect, misinterpret
Example Sentence: It is hard to fathom the pain felt at the death of a child.
- INARTICULATE (ADJECTIVE): unable to express oneself clearly Synonyms: incoherent, blurred
Antonyms: articulate, communicative
Example Sentence: He made an inarticulate noise in the back of his throat.
- VENGEANCE (NOUN): revenge; punishment for a wrong
Synonyms: reprisal, requital
Antonym: forgiveness, pardon
Example Sentence: Yes, I would bear my sorrows, and become great, that in a day to be I might wreak vengeance on the king.
- BESEECH (VERB): beg earnestly
Synonyms: implore, adjure
Antonyms: refuse, give
Example Sentence: She beseeched him to cut his drinking and smoking.
- CHAFE (VERB): be angry
Synonyms: irritate, abrade
Antonyms: aid, placate
Example Sentence: He chafed at having to take orders from someone else.
- PUNY (ADJECTIVE): small and weak
Synonyms: inconsequential, diminutive
Antonyms: giant, strong
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 puny efforts of her little boy.
- CONJECTURE (NOUN): guess; speculation
Synonyms: guesswork, hunch
Antonyms: certainty, reality
Example Sentence: The commentators made various conjectures about the outcome of the next election.
