vocabulary#1: I have a dream Flashcards

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default:

(noun) failing in not being in time asked by duty or law// failing on completing something
(verb) to fail on going to court

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sentence:
To prevent the recurrence of such defaults, states rewrote their constitutions to sharply limit the debt they could incur.

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synonyms:

neglect, deliquency, failure, misprision, negligence, overlook, slide, slip, ignore, overpass

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Antonyms:

discharge, comply, carry out, perform

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desolate:

(adj) with no habitants
(verb) to deprive from habitants

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sentence:

The place has been desolated since 1960. It is a desolate wasteland.

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synonyms:

gloomy, cloudy, cold, sepulchral, tenebrous, somber, wretched, demolished, detroy, extinguish, ruin

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antonyms:

heartwarming, joyful, festive, friendly, enocuraging

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degenerate:

(adj) lost of courage
(noun) person who sunk below moral standard
(verb) to become worse than something valuable

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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.

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synonyms:

decaying, wasted, weak, inmoral, corrupt, depraved, demoralized, unclean, pervert, profligate

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antonyms:

undecadent, ethical, righteous, saint

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inextricable:

(adj) something impossible to get free like a maze. not being capable of solving it

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sentece:
Some mazes are inextricable.
I don’t like when there is an inextricable question or problem.

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synonyms:

Difficult, insoluble, unexplainable, impossible, absurd

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antonyms:

answerable, explainable, resolvable, soluble, analyzable

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redemptive:

(adj) to do with redepmtion

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sentence:
Knowing one’s past has no redemptive qualities.
Actions done in the present cannot be the redemption of the past.

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synonyms:

salvation, forgiveness, expiation, rebirth, purification, remission, grace

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antonyms:

pollution, corruption, profanation, blasphemy

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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.

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sentence:

My brothers health has been declining since he got very sick.

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synonyms:

turn down, refuse, reject, reprobate, negative,

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antonyms:

accept, embrace, agree, approve, support, allow,

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enable:

(verbs) provide possibility or opportunity, to make it possible, to opparate

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sentence:

I’ll ride over on horseback to enable a quick escape if needed, she insisted.

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synonyms:

allow, fit, confirm, authorize, lincese, invest,

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antonyms:

prevent, prohibit, forbid, disquilify

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impose:

(verb) to stablish authority, force company,

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sentence:

He impose fright in his workers with his cold and serious face.

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synonyms:

lay, inflict, set

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antonyms:

lessen, remit, excuse, disregard

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integrate:

(verb) incorporate to a large group, unified and work as a whole

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sentence:

She integrate with the team very quickly.

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synonyms:

absorb, incorporate, combine, blend

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antonyms:

break down, break up, dissolve, cleave

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reveal:

(verb) to make known or public
(noun) to act in showing, reaveling

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sentence:

After being in a two years relationship they decide to reveal they where dating.

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synonyms:

discover, unmask, show up, tell, expose, display, manifest,

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antonyms:

disguise, overshadow, gild, cover