vocabulary#1: I have a dream Flashcards
default:
(noun) failing in not being in time asked by duty or law// failing on completing something
(verb) to fail on going to court
sentence:
To prevent the recurrence of such defaults, states rewrote their constitutions to sharply limit the debt they could incur.
synonyms:
neglect, deliquency, failure, misprision, negligence, overlook, slide, slip, ignore, overpass
Antonyms:
discharge, comply, carry out, perform
desolate:
(adj) with no habitants
(verb) to deprive from habitants
sentence:
The place has been desolated since 1960. It is a desolate wasteland.
synonyms:
gloomy, cloudy, cold, sepulchral, tenebrous, somber, wretched, demolished, detroy, extinguish, ruin
antonyms:
heartwarming, joyful, festive, friendly, enocuraging
degenerate:
(adj) lost of courage
(noun) person who sunk below moral standard
(verb) to become worse than something valuable
sentece:
The old explanation was that marchen are degenerate heroic myths.
On his father’s side, his ancestors had all been big men, and he was no degenerate scion.
synonyms:
decaying, wasted, weak, inmoral, corrupt, depraved, demoralized, unclean, pervert, profligate
antonyms:
undecadent, ethical, righteous, saint
inextricable:
(adj) something impossible to get free like a maze. not being capable of solving it
sentece:
Some mazes are inextricable.
I don’t like when there is an inextricable question or problem.
synonyms:
Difficult, insoluble, unexplainable, impossible, absurd
antonyms:
answerable, explainable, resolvable, soluble, analyzable
redemptive:
(adj) to do with redepmtion
sentence:
Knowing one’s past has no redemptive qualities.
Actions done in the present cannot be the redemption of the past.
synonyms:
salvation, forgiveness, expiation, rebirth, purification, remission, grace
antonyms:
pollution, corruption, profanation, blasphemy
decline:
(verb) less than in amount, state or in an inferior possition or condition.
(noun) to lower a state or level, period in which something is deteriorating or approching the end.
sentence:
My brothers health has been declining since he got very sick.
synonyms:
turn down, refuse, reject, reprobate, negative,
antonyms:
accept, embrace, agree, approve, support, allow,
enable:
(verbs) provide possibility or opportunity, to make it possible, to opparate
sentence:
I’ll ride over on horseback to enable a quick escape if needed, she insisted.
synonyms:
allow, fit, confirm, authorize, lincese, invest,
antonyms:
prevent, prohibit, forbid, disquilify
impose:
(verb) to stablish authority, force company,
sentence:
He impose fright in his workers with his cold and serious face.