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Study Notes
Synonyms and Antonyms Overview
- Scapegoat: Synonyms are patsy and sucker, indicating someone who bears the blame for others.
- Peremptory: Synonyms include authoritative and unconditional, suggesting a commanding or assertive tone.
- Peremptory Antonyms: Antonyms are roundabout, passive, and equivocal, reflecting a lack of directness or assertiveness.
Further Definitions
- Axiom: Synonyms are fundamental and theorem, representing widely accepted principles or propositions.
- Axiom Antonym: Antonym is absurdity, referring to something that is nonsensical or illogical.
Usurp and Its Context
- Usurp: Synonyms include commandeer, seize, and co-opt, all suggesting taking control or possession illegitimately.
- Usurp Antonym: Antonyms are abdicate and relinquish, pointing to voluntary giving up of power or control.
Descriptive Expressions
- Patronizing: Synonyms are lofty and arrogant, indicating a condescending attitude towards others.
- Patronizing Antonyms: Antonyms are humble and friendly, representing an approachable and modest demeanor.
Morality and Language
- Iniquity: Synonyms include abomination, injustice, and sin, denoting immoral or wicked behavior.
- Archaic: Synonyms are obsolete and outmoded, signifying something that is outdated or no longer in use.
- Archaic Antonyms: Antonyms are current and modern, indicating relevance in the present time.
Decision-Making and Insight
- Vacillate: Synonyms are fluctuate, swing, and waffle, suggesting indecision or fluctuation in choices.
- Vacillate Antonym: Antonym is decide, indicating a clear and definitive choice.
Cognitive Abilities
- Perspicacious: Synonyms include shrewd, keen, and clever, defining someone with sharp insight and understanding.
- Perspicacious Antonyms: Antonyms are dull and stupid, referring to an absence of mental sharpness.
Consumption Behavior
- Abstemious: Synonyms include frugal and moderate, indicating restraint in consumption or indulgence.
- Abstemious Antonyms: Antonyms are gluttonous and greedy, denoting excessive or selfish consumption.
Censorship and Clarity
- Expurgate: Synonyms are censor, bowdlerize, and sanitize, involving the removal of inappropriate content.
- Pellucid: Synonym is limpid, exemplifying clarity and transparency.
- Pellucid Antonyms: Antonyms include obscure and opaque, reflecting lack of clarity or visibility.
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