Synonyms and Antonyms Lesson 3 Flashcards

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• Archaic: Synonyms are obsolete and outmoded, signifying something that is outdated or no longer in use.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.