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29/4/2015- Wednesday
1. Intransigent
- completely unwilling to change
- Synonyms: adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hardened, hardheaded, hard-nosed, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible
No one could Chang his intransigent behavior except for himself.
2. Modicum
- a small amount
- Synonyms: beans, bubkes , continental, damn, darn (also durn), diddly, diddly-squat , doodley-squat, fig, ghost, hoot, iota, lick, jot, rap, squat
only a modicum of skill is necessary to put the kit together.
3. Perfunctory
- used to describe something that is done without energy or enthusiasm because of habit or because it is expected
- Synonyms: apathetic, casual, complacent, disinterested, incurious, insensible, insouciant, nonchalant
Perfunctory performance make that occasion dull.
4. emaciated
- to waste away physically
- Synonyms: decay, droop, weaken, fade, fail, flag, go, lag, languish
5. Gritty
- containing very small pieces of sand or stone
28/4/2015- Tuesday
1. Mitigate
- to make (something) less severe, harmful, or painful
- Synonyms: allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, help, mollify, palliate, relieve, soothe
This medicine should mitigate the pain until the strained muscle heals itself.
2. Suppress
- to end or stop (something) by force
- Synonyms: burke, cover (up), hush (up)
The government tried to suppress the truth about that incident but it seems like the effort would never work because of some irresponsible side.
3. Virulent
- full of hate or anger
- Synonyms: bad, bitchy, catty, cruel, despiteful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, vicious, hateful
I never talk to him because of his virulent face that he showed me every time we meet.
4. Gambol
- to run or jump in a lively way
- Synonyms: binge, frisk, frolic, fling, idyll, lark, ploy, revel, rollick, romp, spree
She don't want to ruin up her life again to another useless man instead, she gambol herself to isolated island to tfind tranquility.
5. Covetous
- feeling or showing a very strong desire for something that you do not have and especially for something that belongs to someone else
- Synonyms: acquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, greedy, grabby, grasping, mercenary, moneygrubbing, rapacious
A covetous person will never satisfied with the things that they have.
27/4/2015- Monday
1. Attenuate
- to make something weaker or less in amount, effect, or force
- Synonyms: depreciate, break, cheapen, depress, devaluate, devalue, downgrade, lower, mark down, reduce
2. Peremprory
- having or showing the insulting attitude of people who think that they should be obeyed without question
- Synonyms: authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic , despotic, dictatorial, domineering, imperious, masterful, overbearing, bossy
She had such a peremptory approach to running the club that people started to avoid her
3. Bemoan
- to say that you are unhappy about something
- Synonyms: lament, bewail, deplore, grieve for, mourn, wail for
She bemoaned the death of her mother at the funeral.
4. Emancipate
- to free someone from someone else's control or power
- Synonyms: discharge, disenthrall, free, enfranchise, enlarge, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, release
5. Whet
- to make (something, such as a person's appetite or curiosity) sharper or stronger
- Synonyms: edge, grind, hone, stone, strop, sharpen
Somehow, to whet others spirit isn't a crude things to do.
26/4/2015- Sunday
1. Squaff
- to drink a large amount of something quickly
- Synonyms: belt (down), gulp, guzzle, hoist, imbibe, knock back, pound (down), drink, sip
It's funny looking at that 'mat saleh' quaffed when he tried 'sambal belacan' for the first time.
2. Staunch
- very devoted or loyal to a person, belief, or cause
- Synonyms: constant, dedicated, devoted, devout, down-the-line, fast, good, loyal
She is a staunch advocate of women's rights.
3. Vilification
- blackening someone's name
- Synonyms: aspersing, blackening, calumniation, calumny, character assassination, defamation, defaming, libel, libeling
Because of revenge, he vilicate his cousin for that position.
4. Quagmire
- a situation that is hard to deal with or get out of
- Synonyms: bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot
For every problem, we have to find alternative way to get out of it so that we can avoid quagmire.
5. Vindicate
- to show that someone should not be blamed for a crime, mistake
- Synonyms: absolve, acquit, clear, exonerate, exculpate
Recent discoveries have generally vindicated the physicist's theories.
25/4/2015- Saturday
1. Parachial
- narrow-minded
- Synonyms: illiberal, insular, little, petty, picayune, provincial, sectarian, small
The parochial outlook of the people in that rural backwater.
2. Felicitous
- very well suited for some purpose or situation
- Synonyms: agreeable, blessed (also blest), congenial, darling, delectable, delicious, delightful, delightsome, dreamy
Her scarf felicitously matched with her shirt.
3. Dirge
- a slow song that expresses sadness or sorrow
-Synonyms: lament, elegy, requiem
The dirge song remind me to my boyfriend that passed away 4 years ago.
4. Skimish
- a minor or brief argument or disagreement
- Synonyms: brush, hassle, run-in, scrape, encounter
Rebel groups are skirmishing with military forces.
5. Discern
- to detect with senses
- Synonyms: behold, catch, descry, see, distinguish, espy, eye, look (at), note, notice
We're still trying to discern the meaning of that meaning.