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Friday, June 7, 2019

♦️Daily Vocab part 15♦️

✅141). Shockingly (Adverb)
👉Definition: in a way that causes indignation, horror, or 
disgust
👉Synonyms: fearfully, hopelessly, appallingly 
👉Usage: the debts were shockingly revealed to total 
£23m

✅142). Confine (Verb)
👉Definition: keep or restrict someone or something 
within certain limits of (space, scope, or time).
👉Synonyms: enclose, incarcerate, imprison, intern, 
impound
👉Usage: he does not confine his message to high 
politics

✅143). Reiteration (Noun)
👉Definition: the action of repeating something, 
typically for emphasis or clarity
👉Synonyms: Echo, Renew, Repeat.
👉Usage: the reiteration of his campaign promise to cut 
taxes

✅144). Apprehensions (Noun)
👉Definition: anxiety or fear that something bad or 
unpleasant will happen
👉Synonyms: 
anxiety, angst, alarm, worry, uneasiness, unease, nervo
usness
👉Usage: he felt sick with apprehension

✅145). Intimidation (Noun)
👉Definition: the action of intimidating someone, or the 
state of being intimidated
👉Synonyms: 
frightening, menacing, terrifying, scaring, alarming, ter
rorization
👉Usage: the intimidation of witnesses and jurors

✅146). Taint (Noun)
👉Definition: a trace of a bad or undesirable substance 
or quality
👉Synonyms: 
trace, touch, suggestion, hint, tinge, tincture
👉Usage: the lingering taint of creosote

✅147). Inasmuch (Adverb)
👉Definition: to the extent that; in so far as
👉Synonyms: Because, Since, While
👉Usage: These provisions apply only inasmuch as 
trade between Member States is affected

✅148). Turbulent (Adjective)
👉Definition: characterized by conflict, disorder, or 
confusion; not stable or calm
👉Synonyms: 
tempestuous, stormy, unstable, unsettled, tumultuous,
explosive
👉Usage: the country's turbulent history

✅149). Apex (Noun)
👉Definition: the highest point of achievement; a climax.
👉Synonyms: climax, culmination, culminating 
point, apotheosis
👉Usage: the apex of his career was in 1966 when he 
hoisted aloft the World Cup for England

✅150). Wield (Verb)
👉Definition: hold and use (a weapon or tool)
👉Synonyms: 
brandish, flourish, wave, twirl, display, flaunt, hold 
aloft
👉Usage: a masked raider wielding a handguns

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