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Friday, June 7, 2019

Daily Vocab part 7⃣

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✅61). Votary (NOUN)
👉Definition: a devoted follower, adherent, or advocate 
of someone or something
👉Synonyms: follow, buff
👉Usage: he was a votary of John Keats

✅62). Travesty (Noun)
👉Definition: distorted representation of something
👉Synonyms: 
misrepresentation, distortion, perversion, corruption
👉Usage: the absurdly lenient sentence is a travesty of 
justice

✅63). Dissuaded (Verb)
👉Definition: persuade (someone) not to take a 
particular course of action
👉Synonyms: discourage, deter, prevent, disincline, turn 
aside
👉Usage: his friends tried to dissuade him from flying

✅64). Belatedly (Adverb)
👉Definition: later than should have been the case
👉Synonyms: slowly, behind, tardily
👉Usage: the High Command had belatedly altered its 
tactics

✅65). Hubbub (Noun)
👉Definition: a chaotic din caused by a crowd of people.
👉Synonyms: noise, loud
noise, din, racket, commotion, clamour
👉Usage: a hubbub of laughter and shouting

✅66). Breached (Verb)
👉Definition: make a gap in and break through (a wall, 
barrier, or defence)
👉Synonyms: break (through), burst 
(through), rupture, force itself through, split
👉Usage: the river breached its bank

✅67). Disseminating (Verb)
👉Definition: spread (something, especially information) 
widely
👉Synonyms: 
spread, circulate, distribute, disperse, diffuse, proclaim
, promulgate
👉Usage: health authorities should foster good practice 
by disseminating information

✅68). Coterie (Noun)
👉Definition: a small group of people with shared 
interests or tastes, especially one that is exclusive of 
other people.
👉Synonyms: clique, set, circle, inner circle, crowd, in-
crowd, gang, band, pack, crew
👉Usage: a coterie of friends and advisers

✅69). Fury (Noun)
👉Definition: wild or violent anger.
👉Synonyms: rage, anger, wrath, passion, outrage, 
spleen, temper
👉Usage: Tears of fury and frustration

✅70). Embattled (Adjective)
👉Definition: (of a place or people) involved in or 
prepared for war, especially because surrounded by 
enemy forces.
👉Synonyms: fighting, beset, prepared
👉Usage: the embattled northern province

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