♦️Daily Vocab part 17♦️

✅161).Abridged (Verb)
👉Definition: shorten (a book, film, speech, etc.) without 
losing the sense
👉Synonyms: shorten, cut, cut short/down,
curtail, truncate, lessen, trim, crop
👉Usage: an abridged text of his speech

✅162). Fended (Verb)
👉Definition: look after and provide for oneself, without 
any help from others.
👉Synonyms: take care of oneself, look after 
oneself, provide for oneself, shift for oneself
👉Usage: she left her 14-year-old daughter to fend for 
herself

✅163). Mystery (Noun)
👉Definition: something that is difficult or impossible to 
understand or explain
👉Synonyms: 
Puzzle, enigma, conundrum, riddle, secret, unsolved 
problem
👉Usage: the mysteries of outer space

✅164). Disengage (Verb)
👉Definition: separate or release (someone or 
something) from something to which they are attached 
or connected.
👉Synonyms: 
remove, detach, disentangle, extricate, separate, releas
e, loosen
👉Usage: I disengaged his hand from mine

✅165). Disruptors (Noun)
👉Definition: a person or thing that prevents something, 
especially a system, process, or event, from continuing 
as usual or as expected
👉Synonyms: Firebrand, leftist, radical, reactionary. 
👉Usage: to disrupt a connection.

✅166). Lieutenant (Noun)
👉Definition: a deputy or substitute acting for a superior.
👉Synonyms: deputy, second in command, right-hand 
man/woman, number two
👉Usage: one of the Prime Minister's most trusted
lieutenants

✅167). Perquisites (Noun)
👉Definition: a benefit which one enjoys or is entitled to 
on account of one's job or position
👉Synonyms: advantage, extra, bonus, dividend 
👉Usage: the wife of a president has all the perquisites
of stardom

✅168). Affirmative (Adjective)
👉Definition: expressing approval or agreement
👉Synonyms: positive, assenting, consenting, agreeing, 
concurring, corroborative
👉Usage: an affirmative answer

✅169). Pecuniary (Adjective)
👉Definition: relating to or consisting of money
👉Synonyms: 
financial, monetary, money, fiscal, economic, capital,
commercial
👉Usage: he admitted obtaining a pecuniary advantage 
by deception

✅170). Speculation (Noun)
👉Definition: the forming of a theory or conjecture 
without firm evidence
👉Synonyms: 
conjecture, theorizing, hypothesizing, supposition, gue
sswork
👉Usage: there has been widespread speculation that he 
plans to quit