Tuesday, May 14, 2013

1:18 AM

1. ABASE

abase
  • Meaning  - To lower in rank, prestige, or esteem, to humiliate.
  • Synonyms - Debase,degrade,humiliate.
  • Antonyms - dignify, honor, respect.
  • Usage - He felt abased when his clothes were removed.

2. ABASH

abash
  • Meaning - To make ashamed or uneasy, disconcert, to embarrass.
  • Synonyms - confound, confuse, embarrass.
  • Antonyms - composed, emboldened, proud, reassured.
  • Usage - Salman was abashed when Ash married Abhishek.

3. ABATE

abate2
  • Meaning - to decrease in force or intensity, to decrease in amount or value.
  • Synonyms - Subside, Decrease, Wane, Slack, Slake.
  • Antonyms - increase, intensify, magnify.
  • Usage - We were waiting for the storm to abate.

4. ABBREVIATE

abbreviate
  • Meaning - To make short or shorter, To reduce in force, efficacy, or intensity.
  • Synonyms - shorten, abridge, curtail, truncate.
  • Antonyms - expand, extend, increase, lengthen.
  • Usage - SHIT is abbreviation of __ __ __ __ .

5. ABDICATE

renounce
  • Meaning - to renounce a throne, to give up, to surrender.
  • Synonyms - relinquish, renounce, reject, cast off, disclaim.
  • Antonyms  - assert, assume, challenge, claim, defend, defy, hold, maintain, remain, retain, treasure, usurp.
  • Usage - Bush abdicated his power.

6. ABERRANT

aberrant
  • Meaning – straying from the right or normal way, deviating from the usual or natural type.
  • Synonyms - deviation, variation, distortion, disorientation, error.
  • Antonyms - truth,  sanity.
  • Usage - The aberrant nature of Heart pulses.

7. ABET

abet-11
  • Meaning - to actively encourage, to assist or support.
  • Synonyms - aid, assist, support, encourage, incite, instigate.
  • Antonyms - hinder, obstruct, interrupt, restrict.
  • Usage - Abu Allibi was killed for abetting Bin laden.

8. ABEYANCE

abeyance
  • Meaning - temporary inactivity, condition of being undetermined.
  • Synonyms - suspended, withheld, inoperative, out of action, pending.
  • Antonyms - ongoing, action, activity, continuance, continuation.
  • Usage - The task was held in abeyance.

9. ABHOR

hate
  • Meaning - to regard with horror or detestation, to regard with extreme repugnance.
  • Synonyms - Hate, dislike, detest, loathe, despise, abominate.
  • Antonyms - Love, liking, admiration, affection, infatuation, idolatry.
  • Usage - Abhor the sin, not the sinner.

10. ABJECT

abject-1
  • Meaning - Sunk to a low condition, cast down in spirit
  • Synonyms - beggarly, degraded, wretched, miserable.
  • Antonyms - Exalted, proud.
  • Usage - Children dwelling in abject poverty.

11. ABJURE

abjure
  • Meaning - to renounce upon oath, to give up.
  • Synonyms - renounce, repudiate, forswear, recant.
  • Antonyms - desire, wish, long for.
  • Usage - Mr. Bush abjured his rights.

12. ABLUTION

ablution
  • Meaning - the act of washing or cleansing as a religious rite.
  • Synonyms - bath, washing, cleaning.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know
  • Usage - Man taking ablution in the pure waters of Ganga.

13. ABNEGATION

  • Meaning - to deny oneself, self-denial, self-renunciation.
  • Synonyms - give up, renunciation, denial, relinquish.
  • Antonyms - assert, assume, defend, defy, hold, remain, retain, usurp.
  • Usage - Swami Vivekananda abnegated all the luxurious of material life.

14. ABODE

abode
  • Meaning - A place where someone lives.
  • Synonyms - residence, home, dwelling place, house, place.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know
  • Usage - The dream abode.

15. ABOLISH

abolish
abolish_work
  • Meaning -put an end to, to make null.
  • Synonyms - annul, terminate, nullify, cancel, abrogate.
  • Antonyms – continue, approve, retain.
  • Usage - World should abolish nuclear weapons as well as work :) .

16. ABOMINABLE

hate1
  • Meaning - unpleasant, causing disgust.
  • Synonyms - abhor, hatred, detestable, loathe.
  • Antonyms - love, adore, admire, worship.
  • Usage - everyone abominates terrorists.

17. ABORIGINAL

aboriginal
  • Meaning - having existed in a region from the beginning.
  • Synonyms - indigenous, native, originals.
  • Antonyms - immigrant, foreigner, incomer.
  • Usage - Its difficult to find  aboriginals in metros.

18. ABRADE

abradeabrade
  • Meaning - to wear down or tear away by friction.
  • Synonyms - chafe, rub off, wear away, erase, erode, scour, scrape.
  • Antonyms – smooth.
  • Usage - Frequent brakes abrade tyres fast.

19. ABRASIVE

abrasive-1
  • Meaning - Harsh and rough in manner, substance that abrades.
  • Synonyms - scape, rough.
  • Antonyms – likable, pleasant, smooth soft, pleasing.
  • Usage - abrasive brushes.

20. ABRIDGE

abridge
  • Meaning - to cut short, to reduce the length.
  • Synonyms - condense, shorten, abbreviate, reduce.
  • Antonyms - elaborate, expand, extend, increase, lengthen.
  • Usage - The London bridge abridges the gap between two islands.

21. ABROGATE

abolish_work
  • Meaning - to abolish, to cancel by an authority.
  • Synonyms - abolish, annul, annihilate.
  • Antonyms - continue approve, retain.
  • Usage – Let us see if new laws abrogate the right to work.

22. ABSCISSION

abscission1
  • Meaning - the act or process of cutting off.
  • Synonyms - removal, cutting off, shedding, sloughing.
  • Antonyms - attach, join.
  • Usage - The picture depicts the abscission of a branch.

23. ABSCOND

abscond
  • Meaning -to depart in a sudden and secret manner, esp. to avoid capture and legal prosecution.
  • Synonyms - hide, depart, run away, flee.
  • Antonyms – arrive, stay, reappear, remain, be present.
  • Usage - Forces are searching the absconded Bin Laden.

24. ABSOLUTE

absolute
  • Meaning - Loosed from any limitation, perfect in quality and nature.
  • Synonyms - Uncontrolled, Unrestricted, Authoritative, dictatorial, autocratic.
  • Antonyms – Accountable, limited, responsible.
  • Usage - Adolf Hitler wanted the absolute power.

25. ABSOLVE

absolve
  • Meaning - to set free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt.
  • Synonyms - forgive, discharge, pardon, vindicate, set free.
  • Antonyms - charge, convict, excoriate.
  • Usage - Lord Jesus absolves us all from our sins.

26. ABSTAIN

abstain_011
  • Meaning – To refrain from something by one’s own choice.
  • Synonyms – refrain, withhold, resist.
  • Antonyms - pursue, persist.
  • Usage - Abstinence is the key of life. abstain from sex. ;)

27. ABSTRACT

abstract
  • Meaning - a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance, existing only in the mind.
  • Synonyms - theoretical, complex, conceptual, unrealistic, unpractical, hypothetical, abstract.
  • Antonyms - concrete, definite, real.
  • Usage - abstract art is very valuable these days.

28. ABSTRUSE

abstruse-1
  • Meaning - hard to understand.
  • Synonyms – obscure, abstract, esoteric, difficult, obsolete, recondite.
  • Antonyms - clear, easy, lucid, simple, concrete.
  • Usage - Abstruse subjects are hard to understand.

29. ABUSIVE

abusive-11
  • Meaning - characterized by wrong or improper use or actionusing harsh insulting language.
  • Synonyms – Insulting, slanderous, calumniating, disparage, maligning.
  • Antonyms - Praising, eulogistic, laudatory, panegyric.
  • Usage - Using abusive language and insulting prisoners.

30. ABUT

abut
  • Meaning - to touch along the border, to border upon or end at.
  • Synonyms - adjoin, border, neighbor, meet, touch.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know
  • Usage - The 2 properties shown in Figure abut one another.

31. ABYSMAL

abysmal
  • Meaning - Extending far downward or inward from a surface, extremely or hopelessly bad or severe.
  • Synonyms - deep, abyss, bottomless, profound, fathomless, immeasurable, extremely bad.
  • Antonyms - measurable, fathomable.
  • Usage -The abysmal well.

32. ABYSS

abyss
  • Meaning - An immeasurably deep chasm.
  • Synonyms - chasm, deep, hallow, ravine, cavity, deep, abysmal.
  • Antonyms – measurable, not deep.
  • Usage -Lost in the deep abysses of water.

33. ACCEDE

accede
  • Meaning -to express approval.
  • Synonyms – assent, agree, acquiesce, comply, concede, accept, nod.
  • Antonyms - deny, refuse, condemn, demur, denounce.
  • Usage -The two acceded to work together.

34. ACCLAIM

acclaim
  • Meaning - To praise enthusiastically and often publicly, to acknowledge.
  • Synonyms - praise, applaud, acclamation, hail, herald
  • Antonyms – dishonor, disapproval, berate, vituperate.
  • Usage - Acclaim the deserved.

35. ACCLIMATIZE

acclimatize
  • Meaning - To adapt oneself to environmental or climatic changes.
  • Synonyms – adapt, adjust, conform.
  • Antonyms - unacclimatize.
  • Usage -people acclimatize when there is change in weather.

36. ACCLIVITY

acclivity
  • Meaning -An upward slope.
  • Synonyms – ascent, rise, raise, climb, upgrade, incline, slope.
  • Antonyms - declivity, decline.
  • Usage - Sign showing acclivity ahead.

37. ACCOLADE

accolade
  • Meaning – an award or privilege granted as a special honor or as an acknowledgment of merit.
  • Synonyms – award, recognition, prize, trophy, honor, reward.
  • Antonyms – criticism.
  • Usage - His works were accoladed.

38. ACCOMPLICE

abet
  • Meaning - A person who knowingly participates with another in an unlawful act, crime or wrongdoing, partner in crime.
  • Synonyms – confederate, associate, assistant, helper, decoy, steerer, supporter.
  • Antonyms - adversary, enemy, opponent.
  • Usage - Abu Allibi was an accomplice of Bin Laden.

39. ACCORD

accord
  • Meaning - An agreement between parties.
  • Synonyms - agree, agreement, concord, consort, harmonize, rapport, treaty.
  • Antonyms - disagreement, dissonance, dissension.
  • Usage – The two parties accorded for peace.

40. ACCOST

accost
  • Meaning - To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively.
  • Synonyms – come up to, address, greet, recognize, approach, snare, hook, solicit, waylay.
  • Antonyms - avoid, dodge, evade, ignore, scorn, shun.
  • Usage - President is being accosted by body guards.

41. ACCOUTRE

accoutre
  • Meaning - To outfit and equip, as for military duty.
  • Synonyms – furnish, equip, outfit, fit out, fit, attire.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage – The army man accoutred for the mission.

42. ACCRETION

accretion-2
  • Meaning – increase by external addition or accumulation.
  • Synonyms - increase, accrue, growth.
  • Antonyms - attrition, decrease, lose.
  • Usage - The accretion of snow.

43. ACCRUE

accrue
  • Meaning - to be added as a matter of periodic gain or advantage, as interest on money.
  • Synonyms - to increase, accretion, augment, collect, gather, accummulate.
  • Antonyms - attrition, decrease, lose.
  • Usage - the interest accrues.

44. ACERBITY / ACRID

acerbity-1
  • Meaning - Sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone. / (ACRID) harshness or severity, as of temper or expression.
  • Synonyms - bitter, acidity, sour. / (ACRID) tartness, jaundice, acrimony.
  • Antonyms - mellowness, mildness, sweetness. / (ACRID) kindness, sweetness
  • Usage - taste of acerbity.

45. ACME

acme
  • Meaning - The highest point, as of achievement or development.
  • Synonyms - peak, summit, apex, zenith, top, pinnacle.
  • Antonyms – bottom, low point, zero, nadir.
  • Usage - try harder to reach the acme of your career.

46. ACNE

acne
  • Meaning – Its a common skin disease characterized by pimples on the face, chest, and back.
  • Synonyms - pimples
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know
  • Usage - acne is a common disease.

47. ACQUIESCE

acquiesce
  • Meaning - to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or agree passively.
  • Synonyms – assent, agree, comply, connive.
  • Antonyms - disagree, deny, refuse, condemn, demur, denounce.
  • Usage - I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request.

48. ACQUIT / ACQUITTAL

acquittal-1
  • Meaning – Judgment, as by a jury or judge, that a defendant is not guilty of a crime as charged.
  • Synonyms - absolve, discharge, exculpate, exonerate, release, vindicate.
  • Antonyms - charge, condemn, blame, convict, sentence.
  • Usage - If it does not fit, must you acquit?

49. ACRIMONIOUS

acrimonious
  • Meaning – caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner.
  • Synonyms – acerbic, caustic, bitter, peevish, pungent, tart, sharp.
  • Antonyms - kind, sweet, affable, benign.
  • Usage - remain calm in acrimonious situations.

50. ACROPHOBIA

acrophobia
  • Meaning – Fear of heights.
  • Synonyms – // comment if you know
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know
  • Usage - People having acrophobia miss lot of fun, like the one in photo.

51. ACTUARY

actuary
  • Meaning - A statistician who computes insurance risks and premiums.
  • Synonyms – analyst,auditor, bookkeeper,calculator,clerk,comptroller, public accountant, reckoner.
  • Antonyms – // comment if you know
  • Usage - actuaries estimate the preferred interest rates of insurance companies.

52. ACTUATE

Actuate
  • Meaning -To put into motion or action; activate; Motivate.
  • Synonyms - drive,impel,mobilize,activate,motivate.
  • Antonyms - impede, stop.
  • Usage - crisis actuate employees to work hard.

53. ACUMEN

Acumen
  • Meaning -ability to understand and judge things quickly and clearly.
  • Synonyms - shrewdness, astuteness, sagacity.
  • Antonyms - denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity
  • Usage - Einstein approached matters with great acumen

54. ACUTE

acute
  • Meaning - Extremely sharp or severe; intense;
  • Synonyms – sharp, pointed, sensitive, shrill.
  • Antonyms – dense, imperceptive, insensitive,blunt, dull
  • Usage - Sitting infront of computer for long hours causes acute back pains.

55. ADAMANT

adamant
  • Meaning -An extremely hard, firmly or stubbornly determined.
  • Synonyms - die-hard, grim, implacable,stubborn,rigid
  • Antonyms - flexible, soft, supple
  • Usage - Dogs can be adamant at times

56. ADAGE

adage
  • Meaning -A pithy statement expressing an observation or principle generally accepted as wise or true,
  • Synonyms - aphorism, maxim, proverb, saying.
  • Antonyms - //comment if you know
  • Usage - She said she always believed in the old adage,’Leave them while you’re looking good.’      -Loos, Anita

57. ADDENDUM

addendum
  • Meaning -Something added or to be added, especially a supplement to a book.
  • Synonyms - supplement, appendix, postscript.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage -This is an addendum to the book.

58. ADDLE

addle
  • Meaning – to become confused.
  • Synonyms - confuse, muddle, bewilder.
  • Antonyms - clear, understanding
  • Usage - My Brain is addled by the volume of this work.

59. ADDUCE

adduce
  • Meaning - to cite as an example or means of proof in an argument.
  • Synonyms - cite, present, abduce.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage - The picture adduce the fact of evolution.

60. ADEPT

adept1
  • Meaning -A highly skilled person; an expert.
  • Synonyms – expert,master,skillful,proficient.
  • Antonyms – awkward, clumsy, incompetent, inept, unskilled.
  • Usage - There is great demand for adept employees these days.

61. ADIEU

adieu
  • Meaning -Used to express farewell
  • Synonyms - farewell, goodbye, parting
  • Antonyms - greeting,hello
  • Usage -Bidding them adieu we departed.

62. ADJUDGE

adjudge
  • Meaning -To award by law,To determine or decide by judicial procedure.
  • Synonyms - decide, decree,determine, judge,rule umpire.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage -A person adjudged guilty is one who has been convicted in court.

63. ADJUNCT

Adjunct
  • Meaning - Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position.
  • Synonyms  - accessory, supplement, attachment.
  • Antonyms - detriment, lessening, subtraction
  • Usage - PCC looking for adjunct faculty through job fair.

64. ADJURATION

adjuration
  • Meaning -An earnest, solemn appeal.
  • Synonyms - appeal, earnest command.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage  - Picture depicting people taking adjuration.

65. ADJUTANT

adjutant
  • Meaning - A staff officer who helps a commanding officer with administrative affairs.
  • Synonyms - aide, assistant,auxiliary, helper, deputy
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage - The picture of an adjutant officer.

66. ADJOURN

adjourn1
  • Meaning -To suspend until a later stated time.
  • Synonyms – defer, delay, postpone, shelve, suspend.
  • Antonyms -begin, convene, convoke, encourage, further, keep on, open, rally, stimulate, urge
  • Usage  - The court adjourned the meeting .

67. ADMONISH

admonish
  • Meaning -To reprove gently but earnestly.
  • Synonyms - reprove, rebuke, castigate, chastise, warn .
  • Antonyms -applaud, approve, commend, compliment, extol, flatter, laud, praise
  • Usage - admonish your friends privately but praise them openly. :)

68. ADONIS

adonis
  • Meaning -Greek Mythology. A strikingly beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite, A very handsome young man.
  • Synonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage - is anyone nicknamed adonis.. ? :)

69. ADORE

adore
  • Meaning -To regard with deep passion and love.
  • Synonyms - idolize, revere, worship, love
  • Antonyms -abhor, condemn, despise, detest, hate.
  • Usage - who doesn’t adore red rose..?

70. ADROIT

adroit1
  • Meaning - Exhibiting or possessing skill and ease in performance
  • Synonyms - skillful,dexterous, deft, nimble, slick
  • Antonyms -awkward, clumsy, dense, inept, stupid, unskilled
  • Usage - Safety Sam is definitely an adroit worker.

71. ADULTERATE

adulteration
  • Meaning - make poorer in quality by adding another substance
  • Synonyms – alloyed, impure, dirty, mixing, debased, loaded.
  • Antonyms - clean, moral, virtuous, free, purify, refine
  • Usage Adulterating food has become habit for some people now :( .

72. ADUMBRATE

Adumbrate
  • Meaning -To draw up a preliminary plan or version of, To give a sketchy outline of.
  • Synonyms - augur, bode, forecast, daft, sketch, outline.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage - The recent development adumbrate a world – wide revolution in computer technology.

73. ADVENT

advent
  • Meaning -The coming or arrival, especially of something extremely important.
  • Synonyms – appearance, arrival, coming, start.
  • Antonyms - departure, end.
  • Usage - People preparing for the advent of lord.

74. ADVERSE / ADVERSITY

Adverse
  • Meaning - Unfavourable conditions.
  • Synonyms - antagonistic, antipathetic, opposing, unfavourable, disadvantages.
  • Antonyms - advantageous, aiding, auspicious, favorable, fortunate, helpful, lucky, propitious
  • Usage - Soldiers give up their life for ours and serve in adverse conditions to have a better life for us.

75. ADVERT

advert
  • Meaning -To call or direct attention to something.
  • Synonyms - mention, point, refer, advertise, pay attention.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage - Advert the situation which you can’t handle.

76. ADVOCACY


advocacy
  • Meaning -The act of pleading or arguing in favor of something cause, idea.
  • Synonyms – support.
  • Antonyms – attack, criticism, opposition, protest, rejection.
  • Usage - Advocates plead on behalf of their clients.

77. ADZ / ADZE


adze
  • Meaning -An axlike tool with a curved blade at right angles to the handle, used for shaping wood.
  • Synonyms // comment if you know.
  • Antonyms // comment if you know.
  • Usage - people use it to dig and plant tree in gardens.

78. AEGIS

aegis
  • Meaning - Greek Mythology. The goatskin shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena. Athena’s shield carried at its center the head of Medusa.
  • Synonyms – shield, backing, patronage.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage - under the council’s aegis the new law was approved.

79. AERIE

aerie
  • Meaning -The nest of a bird, such as an eagle, built on a cliff or other high place.
  • Synonyms - nest.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage - The condors flew to their new aerie.

80. AESTHETIC

asthetic
  • Meaning -An artistically beautiful or pleasing appearance
  • Synonyms - artistic.
  • Antonyms - ugly.  // comment here me if i wrong !!
  • Usage – aesthetic performance by the artists.

81. AEROSTAT

aerostat
  • Meaning – A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
  • Synonyms – Balloon
  • Antonyms – // comment if you know.
  • Usage -Aerostats are used for lifting military airborne radar equipment.

82. AFFABLE

affable
  • Meaning - Easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable.
  • Synonyms – gracious, congenial, cordial, genial, sociable,sonsy, amiable, genial.
  • Antonyms - complaining, disdainful, grouchy, grumbling, impolite, miserable, reserved, surly, unfriendly.
  • Usage – affable kitty gives everyone hugs.

83. AFFECT

affect
  • Meaning -Have an influence on,  produce an effect on.
  • Synonyms - influence, touch, move, impress, assume, fake.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage – This article will affect my thinking.

84. AFFECTATION

affectation
  • Meaning -A particular habit, as of speech or dress, adopted to give a false impression.
  • Synonyms - pose, pretense.
  • Antonyms -naturalness, simplicity
  • Usage -Freedom from affectation or embarrassment.

85. AFFILIATE

affiliate
  • Meaning -A person, organization, or establishment associated with another as a subordinate, subsidiary, or member.
  • Synonyms - ally, associate, bind, combine, connect, join.
  • Antonyms - disjoin, separate, stay away.
  • Usage - want to affiliate with the association above?

86. AFFRONT

affront
  • Meaning -To insult intentionally, especially openly
  • Synonyms - huff, insult, miff, offend, outrage.
  • Antonyms -appeasement, compliment, pleasantry, gratify, mollify, placate, please, satisfy, soothe.
  • Usage - People don’t tolerate affront and commit suicide.

87. AFOOT

Afoot
  • Meaning -In the process of being carried out.
  • Synonyms - walking, underway, on foot.
  • Antonyms - nonmoving, unmoving, nonsurrent.
  • Usage - did u came all the way afoot?

88. AGAPE

agape
  • Meaning - In a state of wonder or amazement, as with the mouth wide open.
  • Synonyms - aghast, ajar, opened, overwhelmed, shocked.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage - Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape. –Milton.

89. AGILE

agile
  • Meaning – Characterized by quickness, lightness, and ease of movement.
  • Synonyms - quick, nimble, brisk, facile.
  • Antonyms -brittle, clumsy, stiff
  • Usage - dogs are extremely agile.

90. AGGLOMERATE

agglomerate
  • Meaning -become collected into a mass.
  • Synonyms – accrue, accumulate, aggregate, amass, collect.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage - The system determine the size and distribution of the agglomerate.

91. AGGRANDIZE

aggrandize
  • Meaning - to make appear great or greater:praise highly
  • Synonyms – amplify, augment, boost, build, burgeon, magnify,                                            multiply, glorify.
  • Antonyms -belittle, debase, degrade, depress, disgrace, humble, lower.
  • Usage -The king wanted to aggrandize himself and his kingdom.

92. AGGRAVATE

aggravate
  • Meaning -make worse or more serious.
  • Synonyms -intensify, deepen, enhance, heighten, intensate, magnify
  • Antonyms -appease, gladden, make happy, mollify, soften, alleviate, help, improve, relieve, soothe.
  • Usage -Threats only served to aggravate people in such cases.

93. AGGREGATE

aggregate
  • Meaning – Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.
  • Synonyms - amount, sum, summation, total, gross, whole.
  • Antonyms – individual, part, particular,break up, disperse, divide.
  • Usage - aggregate stockpiled for additional underground drains.

94. AGGRESS / AGGRESSION

aggress1
  • Meaning -To initiate an attack, war, quarrel, or fight.
  • Synonyms - assail, assault, attack, beset, strike.
  • Antonyms -meekness
  • Usage -Aggression, the writer’s main source of energy.” – Ted Solotaroff

95. AGGRIEVE

aggrieve1
  • Meaning -to give pain or trouble to.
  • Synonyms - distressgrievehurtinjurepain, oppress, outrage, wound.
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage - Deer was aggrieved by the leopard’s attack.

96. AGHAST

aghast
  • Meaning -filled with horror or amazement.
  • Synonyms - shock, terror, amazement,afraidapprehensivefearfulfearsomefunkypanicky.
  • Antonyms -unsurprised.
  • Usage - John stood aghast looking the report card.

97. AGITATE

agitate1
  • Meaning – cause anxiety to (a person, his feelings, etc).
  • Synonyms - churnconvulserockshake,botherdiscomposedisquietdistractdisturb.
  • Antonyms - calm, not bother, quiet, soothe,tranquilize.
  • Usage - She was agitated by the attacks.

98. AGNOSTIC

agnostic
  • Meaning - One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
  • Synonyms - doubter, non-believer, non-committed.
  • Antonyms - believer, gnostic.
  • Usage - are you an agnostic fellow ?

99. AGOG

agog
  • Meaning -Full of keen anticipation or excitement; eager.
  • Synonyms - ardentathirstavidburstingeagerimpatientkeensolicitousthirstingthirsty.
  • Antonyms -incurious, uninterested.
  • Usage - are you agog to learn more words ?

100. AGRARIAN

agrarian
  • Meaning -Relating to or concerning the land and its ownership, cultivation, and tenure.
  • Synonyms - agriculturalfarming
  • Antonyms - // comment if you know.
  • Usage - A movement for equitable distribution of land and for agrarian reform.

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