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Friday, June 7, 2019

Daily Vocab part 1

✅1). Perpetrators (Noun)
👉Definition: a person who carries out a harmful, illegal, 
or immoral act
👉Synonyms: criminal, offender, felon
👉Usage: the perpetrators of this horrific crime must be 
brought to justice

✅2). Agonizingly (Adjective)
👉Definition: Causing extreme worry
👉Synonyms: badly, vigorously, severely, arduously
👉Usage: She went through an agonizing few weeks 
waiting for the test results

✅3). Fudging (Verb)
👉Definition: present or deal with (something) in a 
vague or inadequate way, especially so as to conceal 
the truth or mislead.
👉Synonyms: evade, dodge, skirt, avoid, duck, shift 
ground about
👉Usage: the authorities have fudged the issue

✅4). Affluent (Adjective)
Definition: (especially of a group or area) having a 
great deal of money; wealthy
Synonyms: wealthy, rich, prosperous, opulent, well 
off, moneyed, cash rich
Usage: the affluent societies of the western world

✅5). Anonymises (Verb)
👉Definition: remove identifying particulars or details 
from (something, especially medical test results) for 
statistical or other purposes.
👉Synonyms: testing, analyzing, finding
👉Usage: anonymized testing of routine blood samples

✅6). Stifle (Verb)
👉Definition: make (someone) unable to breathe 
properly; suffocate
👉Synonyms: suffocate, choke, asphyxiate
👉Usage: those in the streets were stifled by the fumes

✅7). Augurs (Verb)
👉Definition: (of an event or circumstance) portend a 
good or bad outcome
👉Synonyms: bode; portend, herald, be a sign of, be an 
indication of, be a warning of, warn of
👉Usage: the end of the cold war seemed to augur well

✅8). Deception (Noun)
👉Definition: the action of deceiving someone
👉Synonyms: deceit, deceitfulness, duplicity, double-
dealing, fraud
👉Usage: obtaining property by deception

✅9). Dodgy (Adjective)
👉Definition: of low quality
👉Synonyms: second-rate, third-rate, substandard, low-
grade, low-quality
👉Usage: Spurs' dodgy defence had thrown away a 2-0 
lead

✅10).Allegation (Noun)
👉Definition: a claim or assertion that someone has done 
something illegal or wrong, typically one made 
without proof.
👉Synonyms: 
claim, assertion, declaration, statement, proclamation,
contention, argument, affirmation
👉Usage: he made allegations of corruption against the 
administration

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