Category: Advanced Vocabulary (Page 8 of 8)

Write a sentence using the word assuage in the comments. Practicing new words in sentences will help you remember them, and it allows me to see if your usage and understanding of the word is correct. If you are not sure, guess! Guessing about how to use new vocabulary also helps make it stick. I will provide correction and feedback for your sentence.

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assuage /əˈsweɪdʒ, əˈsweɪʒ/

verb (used with object) assuaged, assuaging.

1. to make milder or less sever; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one’s grief; to assuage one’s pain.
2. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one’s hunger.
3. to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.

Origin of assuage

Middle English, Old French 1250-1300

Related forms: assuagement, noun; assuager, noun

Synonyms

1. alleviate, lessen.

Antonyms

1. intensify.

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Write a sentence using the word onus in the comments. Practicing new words in sentences will help you remember them, and it allows me to see if your usage and understanding of the word is correct. If you are not sure, guess! Guessing about how to use new vocabulary also helps make it stick. I will provide correction and feedback for your sentence.

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onus /ˈoʊ nəs/

noun, plural onuses

1. a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
2. burden of proof.
3. blame or responsibility.

Origin of onus

Latin 1630-1640

Synonyms

1. responsibility, weight, duty, load.

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Write a sentence using the word colossal in the comments. Practicing new words in sentences will help you remember them, and it allows me to see if your usage and understanding of the word is correct. If you are not sure, guess! Guessing about how to use new vocabulary also helps make it stick. I will provide correction and feedback for your sentence.

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colossal /kəˈlɒs əl/

adjective

1. extraordinarily great in size, extent, or degree; gigantic, huge.
2. of or resembling a colossus.
3. (initial capital letter) Architecture. noting or pertaining to a classical order whose columns or pilasters span two or more stories of a building.

Origin of colossal

1705-1715

Related forms: collosality /ˌkɒl əˈsæl ɪ ti/, noun; colossally, adverb

Synonyms

1. gigantic.

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Write a sentence using the word quotidian in the comments. Practicing new words in sentences will help you remember them, and it allows me to see if your usage and understanding of the word is correct. If you are not sure, guess! Guessing about how to use new vocabulary also helps make it stick. I will provide correction and feedback for your sentence.

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quotidian /kwoʊˈtɪd i ən/

adjective

1. daily: a quotidian report.
2. usual or customary; everyday: quotidian needs.
3. ordinary; commonplace: paintings of no more than quotidian artistry. 
4. (of a fever, ague, etc.) characterized by paroxysms that recur daily.

noun

1. something recurring daily.
2. a quotidian fever or ague.

Write a sentence using the word rudimentary in the comments. Practicing new words in sentences will help you remember them, and it allows me to see if your usage and understanding of the word is correct. If you are not sure, guess! Guessing about how to use new vocabulary also helps make it stick. I will provide correction and feedback for your sentence.

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rudimentary /ˌru dəˈmɛn tə ri, -tri/

adjective

1. pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry. 
2. of the nature of a rudiment: undeveloped or vestigial.
3. primitive.

1. fundamental, initial
2. embryonic

Antonyms

1. advanced
2. mature

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Write a sentence using the word vociferous in the comments. Practicing new words in sentences will help you remember them, and it allows me to see if your usage and understanding of the word is correct. If you are not sure, guess! Guessing about how to use new vocabulary also helps make it stick. I will provide correction and feedback for your sentence.

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vociferous /voʊˈsɪf ər əs/

adjective

1. crying out noisily; clamorous
2. characterized by or uttered with vociferation: a vociferous manner of expression.

Origin of vociferous

1605-1615

Related forms: vociferously, adverb; vociferousness, noun

Can be confused with veracious, voracious

Synonyms

1. loud, noisy, vocal, uproarious, boisterous.

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Write a sentence using the word robust in the comments. Practicing new words in sentences will help you remember them, and it allows me to see if your usage and understanding of the word is correct. If you are not sure, guess! Guessing about how to use new vocabulary also helps make it stick. I will provide correction and feedback for your sentence.

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robust /roʊˈbʌst, ˈroʊ bʌst/

adjective

1. strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
2. strongly or stoutly built: his robust frame.
3. suited to or require in bodily strength or endurance: robust exercise.
4. rough, rude, or boisterous: robust drinkers and dancers.
5. rich and full-bodied: the robust flavor of freshly brewed coffee.
6. strong and effective in all or most situations and conditions: The system requires robust passwords that contain at least one number or symbol. Our goal is to devise robust statistical methods. 

Origin of robust

Latin 1540-1550

Related forms: robustly, adverb; robustness, noun

Synonyms

1. powerful, sound. 4. coarse, rambunctious.

Anonyms

1. feeble. 2. weak.

Write a sentence using the word pithy in the comments. Practicing new words in sentences will help you remember them, and it allows me to see if your usage and understanding of the word is correct. If you are not sure, guess! Guessing about how to use new vocabulary also helps make it stick. I will provide correction and feedback for your sentence.

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pithy /ˈpɪθ i/

adjective

1. brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation. 
2. of, like, or abounding in pith. 

Origin of pithy

Middle English 1300-1350

Related forms: pithiness, noun; pithily, adverb

Synonyms

1. succinct, meaty, pointed, concise