TODAYS WORDS

Today’s Words:

1. Prolific(adj): Producing offspring or fruit in great abundance; fertile; characterized by abundant production.
Synonyms: teeming, fecund, abundant.
Antonyms: barren.

2. Consonant(adj): in agreement; agreeable; in accord; consistent ; corresponding in sound, as words
Synonyms: concordant, congruous, conformant, accordant, compatible, congenial, harmonious.
Antonyms: dissonant

3. Boast(v): to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, esp. about oneself; to glorify oneself in speech; talk in a self-admiring way
Boast(n): The act or an instance of bragging.
Synonyms(n): brag, braggadocio, fanfaronade, gasconade, rodomontade, vaunt
Synonyms(v): brag, crow, gasconade, rodomontade, vaunt

4. Accolade(n): any award, honor, an expression of approval; praise; a ceremonial embrace, as of greeting or salutation.
Synonyms: award, guerdon, honorarium, plum, premium.

5. Prig(n): A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
Priggish(adj): exaggeratedly proper
Synonyms: Victorian, bluenosed, old-maidish, precise, prim, prudish, puritanical, strait-laced, stuffy, genteel

6. Straddling(n): to stand or sit with a leg on each side of; to stand wide apart, as the legs; the taking of a noncommittal position

7. Belie(v): to show to be false; contradict; to misrepresent.
Synonyms: refute, disprove, controvert, repudiate, confute, gainsay, besiege, betray, camouflage, contradict, counterfeit, deceive, defame, deny, disguise, disprove, distort, slander.
Antonyms: prove, verify, support.

8. Dissipated(adj): indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; Wasted or squandered.
Synonyms: dissolute, incontinent, licentious, profligate, unbridled, unconstrained, unrestrained, wanton.

9. Nuance(n): a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response; a very slight difference or variation in color or tone
Synonyms: subtlety, nicety, hint, refinement, variation.

10. Pernicious(adj): causing insidious harm or ruin; injurious; hurtful
Synonyms: baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, fatal, malign, noxious, ruinous, toxic, lethal.

11. Gossamer(n): something extremely light, flimsy, or delicate; a fine, a fine film of cobwebs often seen floating in the air or caught on bushes or grass; a soft sheer gauzy fabric.

12. Elusive(adj): eluding clear perception or complete mental grasp; hard to express or define; difficult to describe.
Synonyms: baffling, cagey, cunning, eely, ephemeral, equivocal, evasive, fleeting, foxy, impalpable, insidious, intangible, lubricious, mysterious, saponaceous, slippery, subtle, tricky, wily.

13. Impede(v): to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; to prevent or delay the start or progress of.
Synonyms: clog, curb, deter, disrupt, hamper, harass, hinder, interfere, obstruct, stymie, thwart.

14. Encumbrance(n): something that encumbers; something burdensome, useless, or superfluous; burden; hindrance; a dependent person; a charge against property; any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome.
Synonyms: complication, debt, embarrassment, handicap, hindrance, impediment, incubus, obstacle, perplexity.

15. Quarantine(n): a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease; to exclude, detain, or isolate for political, social, or hygienic reasons.
Synonyms: ban, confine, exclude, interdict, isolate, restrain, restrict.


Analogies:

1. Impede: Encumbrance

2.Quarantine: Isolate