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Friday, June 7, 2019

♦️Daily vocab part 45♦️

✅441). Fragile (Adjective)
👉Definition: easily destroyed or threatened.
👉Synonyms: tenuous, easily broken, easily destroyed, 
easily threatened, vulnerable
👉Usage: you have a fragile grip on reality

✅442). Mammoth (Adjective)
👉Definition: Huge, Very large
👉Synonyms: 
huge, enormous, gigantic, giant, colossal, massive, vast, immense, mighty
👉Usage: a mammoth corporation

✅443). Scandal (Noun)
👉Definition: an action or event regarded as morally or 
legally wrong and causing general public outrage
👉Synonyms: outrageous wrongdoing, outrageous 
behaviour, immoral behaviour, unethical behaviour
👉Usage: a bribery scandal involving one of his key 
supporters

✅444). Amidst (Adjective)
👉Definition: easy to confuse,
👉Synonyms: complicate, muddle, jumble, garble, make 
complex, make
👉Usage: I stood amidst the familiar instruments

✅445). Disillusionment (Noun)
👉Definition: a feeling of disappointment resulting from 
the discovery that something is not as good as one 
believed it to be.
👉Synonyms: disenchantment, 
disillusionment, disappointment, disaffection, 
dissatisfaction
👉Usage: the high abstention rate at the election reflected 
the voters' growing disillusionment with politics

✅446). Verdicts (Noun)
👉Definition: a decision on an issue of fact in a civil or 
criminal case or an inquest
👉Synonyms: 
judgement, adjudication, adjudgement, decision, finding, ruling, resolution
👉Usage: the jury returned a verdict of not guilt

✅447). Conviction (Noun)
👉Definition: a formal declaration by the verdict of a 
jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law that 
someone is guilty of a criminal offence.
👉Synonyms: declaration/pronouncement of guilt, 
sentence, judgment
👉Usage: she had a previous conviction for a similar 
offence

✅448). Antecedents (Noun)
👉Definition: a thing that existed before or logically 
precedes another.
👉Synonyms: precursor, forerunner, predecessor
👉Usage: some antecedents to the African novel might 
exist in Africa's oral traditions

✅449). Affidavits (Noun)
👉Definition: a written statement confirmed by oath or 
affirmation, for use as evidence in court.
👉Synonyms: evidence, legal instrument, official 
document. 
👉Usage: a former employee swore an affidavit relating 
to his claim for unfair dismissal

✅450). Amassing (Verb)
👉Definition: gather together or accumulate (a large 
amount or number of material or things) over a period 
of time.
👉Synonyms: gather, collect, assemble
👉Usage: he amassed a fortune estimated at close to a 
million pounds

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