Vocabulary Set – 33

1. Inkling – a slight knowledge or suspicion; a hint

Synonyms: hunch, impression, indication, insinuation, intimation

Antonyms: information

Usage: The records give us an inkling of how people saw the world.

 

2. Accredit – give credit to (someone) for something.

Synonyms: ascribe, refer, authorize, attribute

Antonyms: deny, disapprove, reject

Usage: He was accredited with being one of the world’s fastest sprinters

 

3. Topple – overbalance or cause to overbalance and fall.

Synonyms: tumble, overturn, plunge, capsize, collapse, plummet

Antonyms: hold, rise, straighten

Usage: Disagreement had threatened to topple the government

 

4. Filch – steal (something, especially an item of small value) in a casual way.

Synonyms: embezzle, pilfer, purloin, hustle, misappropriate, scrounge

Antonyms: give, receive, contribute

Usage: The old woman used her cane to beat the teenager who tried to filch her purse.

 

5. Vindictive – having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge.

Synonyms: vengeful, avenging, resentful, implacable, unrelenting, acrimonious. rancorous, venomous, poisonous, malicious, malevolent,

Antonyms: compassionate, considerate, forgiving, merciful, sympathetic

Usage: My aunt is a vindictive woman who once burned all my uncle’s clothes.

 

6. Usurious – relating to or characterized by usury; extortionate.

Synonyms: acquisitive, avaricious, covetous, desirous, niggardly, penurious

Antonyms: generous, unselfish

Usage: The acts were directed to restrain the lending of money at usurious rates.

 

7. Unabated – without any reduction in intensity or strength.

Synonyms: incessant, persistent, punishing, sustained, tenacious, unflagging, unrelenting, unremitting, unstoppable

Antonyms: intermittent, relenting, surrendering, yielding

Usage: During the war the political reaction continued with unabated force.

 

8. Prurient – having a restless desire or longing.

Synonyms: erotic, salacious, licentious, depraved, obscene

Usage: I became concerned about my neighbor’s prurient curiosity when I caught him.

 

9. Ineffable – too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.

Synonyms: ethereal, indescribable, transcendent, celestial, divine, empyreal

Antonyms: definable, describable, utterable

Usage: The model’s beauty is ineffable and has everyone tongue-tied.

 

10. Axiomatic – evident without proof or argument

Synonyms: aphoristic, absolute, apothegmatic, undamental, indubitable

Antonyms: misunderstood, questionable, uncertain

Usage: It is axiomatic to write that we are living in an age of technology.

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