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Learn how to manipulate word forms to expand your vocabulary effortlessly. Make nouns plural, change verb tenses, and turn adjectives into adverbs effortlessly. Discover various word forms and meanings of words.
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WORD FORMS: Easy Tricks - Nouns: make them plural - Verbs: change the tense - Adjectives: make them adverbs ( -ly) - Most nouns can become adjectives and/or adverbs - Most adjectives, adverbs, and verbs can become nouns
Approbation • Approbations (n) • Approve (v) • Approved (v) • Approving (v; adj) • Approvingly (adv)
Transcend • Transcends (v) • Transcended (v) • Transcending (v) • Transcendent (adj) • Transcendently (adv) • Transcendence (n) • Transcendences (n)
Ameliorate • (v) to improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming • Syn: amend, better • Ant: worsen, aggravate, exacerbate
Aplomb • (n) poise, assurance, great self- confidence • Syn: composure, self-possession, levelheadedness • Ant: confusion, embarrassment, abashment
Bombastic • (adj) pompous or overblown in language; full of high sounding words intended to conceal lack of ideas • Syn: inflated, pretentious • Ant: unadorned, simple, plain, austere
Callow • (adj) without experience; immature, not fully developed; lacking sophistication and poise • Syn: green, raw, unfledged, inexperienced • Ant: mature, grown-up, polished, sophisticated
*Drivel • (n) aimless talk or thinking; nonsense; (v) to utter nonsense or childish babbling; to waste or fritter away foolishly • Syn: hogwash, balderdash
Epitome • (n) a summary, condensed account; an instance that represents a larger reality • Syn: abstract, model, archetype
*Exhort • (v) to urge strongly, advise earnestly • Syn: entreat, implore, abjure • Ant: discourage, advise against, deprecate
Infringe • (v) to violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds • Syn: encroach, impinge, intrude, poach
Ingratiate • (v) to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others (sometimes used in a critical derogatory sense) • Syn: cozy up to, curry favor with, brown-nose • Ant: alienate
Interloper • (n) one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be; intruder • Syn: trespasser, meddler
*Intrinsic • (adj) belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part • Syn: immanent, organic • Ant: extrinsic, external, outward
*Inveigh • (v) to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval • Syn: rail, harangue, fulminate, remonstrate • Ant: acclaim, glorify, extol
*Lassitude • (n) a weariness of body or mind, lack of energy • Syn: fatigue, lethargy, torpor, languor • Ant: energy, vitality, animation, liveliness
Millennium • (n) a period of one thousand years; a period of great joy
*Occult • (adj) mysterious, magical, supernatural; secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means; (v) to hide, conceal; eclipse; (n) matters involving the supernatural • Syn: supernatural, esoteric, abstruse, arcane • Ant: mundane, common, public, exoteric
Permeate • (v) to spread through, penetrate, soak through
Precipitate • (v) to fall as moisture; to cause to bring about suddenly; to hurl down from a great height; to give distinct form to; (adj) characterized by excessive haste; (n) moisture; the product of an action or process • Syn: provoke, produce, reckless, impetuous • Ant: wary, cautious, circumspect
Stringent • (adj) strict, severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp, bitter taste • Syn: stern, rigorous, tough, urgent, imperative • Ant: lenient, mild, lax, permissive
Surmise • (v) to think or believe without certain supporting evidence; to conjecture or guess; (n) likely idea that lacks definite proof • Syn: infer, gather, presumption