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Friday, June 7, 2019

♦️Daily vocab part 11♦️

✅101). Posturing (Verb)
👉Definition: behave in a way that is intended to impress 
or mislead
👉Synonyms: pose, strike an attitude, put on 
airs, attitudinize, behave affectedly
👉Usage: a masking of fear with macho posturing

✅102). Intricate (Adjective)
👉Definition: very complicated or detailed
👉Synonyms: 
complex, complicated, convoluted, tangled, entangled,
ravelled
👉Usage: an intricate network of canals
 
✅103).Unprecedented (Adjective)
👉Definition: never done or known before
👉Synonyms: unparalleled, unequalled, unmatched, 
unrivalled.
👉Usage: The government took the unprecedented step 
of releasing confidential correspondence

✅104).Echelons (Noun)
👉Definition:a level or rank in an organization, a 
profession, or society
Synonyms: Level, rank, grade, step, rung, tier, 
stratum, plane, position
👉Usage:The upper echelons of the business world

✅105).Germ (Noun)
👉Definition:An initial stage from which something may 
develop.
👉Synonyms:start, beginning(s), commencement, 
starting point, genesis, inception
👉Usage:The germ of a brilliant idea

✅106).Delineate (Verb)
👉Definition:Describe or portray (something) precisely
👉Synonyms:Describe, set forth, set out, present, 
outline, depict, portray
👉Usage:The law should delineate and prohibit behavior 
which is socially abhorrent

✅107).Dispels (Verb)
👉Definition:make (a doubt, feeling, or belief) disappear
👉Synonyms:Banish, eliminate, dismiss, chase away, 
drive away
👉Usage:The brightness of the day did nothing to dispel
Elaine's dejection

✅108).Inexplicably (Adverb)
👉Definition: in a way that cannot be explained or 
accounted for
👉Synonyms: unaccountable, unexplainable, 
incomprehensible 
👉Usage: Many crucial documents had inexplicably
disappeared

✅109).Fester (Verb)
👉Definition:become worse or more intense, especially 
through long-term neglect or indifference.
👉Synonyms:rankle, chafe, gnaw (at one's mind), eat 
away at one's mind, ferment
👉Usage:Below the surface, the old antagonisms
festered

✅110).Posterity (Noun)
👉Definition:The descendants of a person
👉Synonyms:Descendants, heirs, successors, offspring, c
hildren
👉Usage:God offered Abraham a posterity like the stars 
of heaven

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