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Re: Power your vocabulary
« Reply #225 on: June 23, 2011, 03:19:00 PM »
Can you fill the blank of the following sentence????

The audience shuddered as they listened to the details of the ________ massacre.
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Re: Power your vocabulary
« Reply #226 on: June 23, 2011, 03:21:05 PM »
New words:

1. Hibernal
2. Hilarity
3. Hirsute
4. Hortatory
5. Hover
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« Reply #227 on: June 23, 2011, 08:08:25 PM »
Mam this would b the possible answer............

1. Hibernal
2. Hilarity : exceeding funny.
3. Hirsute : hairy..
4. Hortatory : art of cultivation..
5. Hover : remain in one place in the air..
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Re: Power your vocabulary
« Reply #228 on: June 25, 2011, 02:05:11 PM »
aunoo...after such a long time...

Hibernal means wintry. (hibernal sleeps)

Hover means hang about; wait nearby. ( The police helicopter hovered above the accident.)

Hirsute: (He was a hirsute individual with a heavy black beard.)
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« Reply #229 on: June 25, 2011, 02:11:36 PM »
Find out the ANTONYMS for the words below:

1. Hibernal
   
  a) musical   b) summerlike     c) local    d) seasonal     e) discordant

2. Hilarity
 
   a) gloom   b) heratiness     c) weakness   d)casualty   e) paucity

3. Hirsute

   a) scaly  b) bald  c) erudite  d) quite  e) long

4. Hortatory

  a) inquiring   b)denying  c) killing  d) frantic  e) dissuading

5. Hover

  a) commence  b) soothe  c) leave  d) transform  e) solidify
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Re: Power your vocabulary
« Reply #230 on: June 25, 2011, 02:13:46 PM »
New Words:

1. Hummock
2. Husbandry
3. Hypercritical
4. Hypocritical
5. Hypothetical
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Re: Power your vocabulary
« Reply #231 on: June 26, 2011, 06:18:37 PM »


The audience shuddered as they listened to the details of the gory massacre.
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« Reply #232 on: June 26, 2011, 06:23:16 PM »
W/M:
1. Hummock: small hill
2. Husbandry: agriculture, frugality
3. Hypercritical: excessively exacting
4. Hypocritical: deceiving
5. Hypothetical: supposed, based on assumptions or hypotheses
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« Reply #233 on: June 26, 2011, 06:26:05 PM »
Today's words are:

1.trek
2.trite
3.traumatic
4.torpor
5.traverse
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Re: Power your vocabulary
« Reply #234 on: June 27, 2011, 06:36:03 PM »
answer of the quiz:

Antonyms:

1.B
2.A
3.B
4.C
5.C
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« Reply #235 on: June 27, 2011, 06:39:44 PM »
W/M:

1.trek: travel, journey
2.trite: hackneyed, commonplace
3.traumatic: pertaining to an injury caused by violence
4.torpor: lethargy
5.traverse: go through or across
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« Reply #236 on: June 27, 2011, 06:43:21 PM »
New words:

1.Vilify
2.Vindicate
3.Vindictive
4.Viper
5.Vigor
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Re: Power your vocabulary
« Reply #237 on: June 29, 2011, 02:00:39 PM »
thank u Mam for wishing me in my birthday. :) and i really want to offer a chocolate pastry   for u and Aliza. :)

her is my answers ..

1.Vilify-criticize very harshly,abuse, asperse
2.Vindicate-prove one's innocence,absolve, acquit, advocate
3.Vindictive-menacing,calamitous, deadly, dire, evil.
4.Viper-basilisk, dragon, ophidian, snake
5.Vigor-power, energy,   ability, action, activity, agility, alertness.



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« Reply #238 on: June 29, 2011, 07:24:18 PM »
Tarek...Thanks for 'Chocolate Pastry'!
 
and also for replying me.

Here are some new words:

1. venial
2. veracious
3. verbose
4. versatile
5. viable

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« Reply #239 on: June 29, 2011, 07:31:35 PM »
Find out synonym/antonym for the word in capital letters:

1. VINDICTIVE

a) revengeful  b) feraful  c) divided  d) literal  e) convincing

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