Word Definitions and Synonyms Quiz

Word Definitions and Synonyms

• Towering: very high, tall, or large
• Inferno: a very large uncontrolled fire
• Abound: to exist in large numbers
• Adorn: to add something decorative to a person or thing
• Advent: the fact of an event happening, an invention being made, or a person arriving
• Annually: once every year
• Apparel: clothes in general or clothes of a particular type when they are being sold in a shop (e.g., sports apparel)
• As good as: almost, not completely
• Ascend: to move up or climb something
• Auction houses: places for public sales of goods or property, where people make higher and higher bids (offers of money) for each thing until the thing is sold to the person who will pay the most
• Being put on notice: to warn or alert someone about something
• Benefits: helpful or good effects, or things intended to help
• Beyond estimate: to a very great degree, very much (literally: you can't guess how much)
• Beyond measure: to a very great degree, very much (literally: you can't measure it)
• Blending: a mixture of different things or styles
• Borrowing: to get or receive something from someone with the intention of giving it back after a period of time
• Bottoms up: sometimes said by people in a friendly way just before drinking an alcoholic drink together
• Brand: a type of product made by a particular company and sold under a particular name
• By all means: used to give permission
• Carbon emissions: carbon dioxide (CO2) that planes, cars, factories, etc., produce, thought to be harmful to the environment
• Castoffs: something, especially a piece of clothing, that you no longer want and give away
• Ceaslessly: in a way that does not stop, or seems to have no end
• Cleats: a type of special shoe worn when playing football (football boot)
• Compelling: to force someone to do something
• Conception: an idea of what something or someone is like, or a basic understanding of a situation or a principle
• Coved: to want to have something very much, especially something that belongs to someone else
• Credibility: the fact that someone or something can be believed or trusted
• Credible: having this quality
• Crimson: having a dark, deep red color
• Crucibles: a severe test
• Cruscible: (same as crucible)
• Defiant: (1) proudly refusing to obey authority / (2) not willing to accept criticism or disapproval
• Defy: to do this
• Demographic: relating to demography (the study of populations and the different groups that make them up)
• Demography: the study of populations and the different groups that make them up (same as demographic above)
• Discarded: to throw something away or get rid of it because you no longer want or need it
• Disclose: to make something known publicly, or to show something that was hidden
• Discredited: to have caused people to stop respecting someone or believing in an idea or person
• Disenchanted: no longer believing in the value of something, especially having learned of the problems with it
• Disposing of: to get rid of someone or something or deal with something so that the matter is finished
• Dowdy: (especially of clothes or the person wearing them) not attractive or fashionable
• Dredges: the lowest or poorest parts
• Durable: able to last and be used for a long time without becoming damaged
• Embroidered: to decorate cloth or clothing with patterns or pictures consisting of stitches that are sewn directly onto the material
• Emergence: the fact of something becoming known or starting to exist
• Enamored: liking something a lot
• Encrusted: covered with something hard or decorative
• Endorsed: (1) to appear in an advertisement, saying that you use and like a particular product / (2) to make a public statement of your approval or support for something or someone
• Entrepeneurship: skill in starting new businesses, especially when this involves seeing new opportunities
• Estimates: to guess or calculate the cost, size, value, etc. of something
• Excess: an amount that is more than acceptable, expected, or reasonable
• Exhibits: to show something publicly (e.g., in an art gallery)
• Exhibitions: same as exhibits
• Eye-popping: astonishing or strikingly impressive
• Foretell the future: to say what is going to happen in the future
• Frivolous: behaving in a silly way and not taking anything seriously
• Garments: pieces of clothing
• Get [one's] due: to surprise someone by doing something that they are not expecting or ready for / getting one's right or what someone or something deserves
• Gratitude: the feeling or quality of being grateful
• Grounding: a knowledge of the basic facts about a particular subject
• Habitats: the natural environments in which an animal or plant usually lives
• Harshness: the quality of being unkind or severe (very strict), harsh
• Hauler: a business or a person involved in a business that transports goods by road
• Get caught off guard: to surprise someone by doing something they are not expecting
• Getting their due: to get one's right or what someone or something deserves
• Gown: a woman's dress, especially a long one worn on formal occasions
• Intertwine: to twist or be twisted together, or to be connected so as to be difficult to separate
• Loom large: Jit becomes very important and often causes worry
• Mark up: to increase the price of something
• Menacing: making you think that someone is going to do something bad
• Nimble: quick and exact either in movement or thoughts.
• Obsolete: not in use anymore, having been replaced by something newer and better or more fashionable
• On good footing: to be in an equal or good relationship with someone
• On par: the same as or equal to someone or something
• Paradoxical/Paradox: seeming impossible or difficult to understand because of containing two opposite facts or characteristics
• Patriarchal/Patriarch: relating to a patriarchy or to the idea that men are more important than women. Patriarch: a man who holds the position of authority over a family, group of people, or organisation
• Perish: to die, especially in an accident or by being killed, or to be destroyed
• Permanence/Permanent: staying the same or continuing for a long time
• Persistence/Persistent: the fact that someone or something persists / continuing in a severe or extreme way
• PhD: the highest college or university degree, or someone who has this ('doctor of philosophy')
• Pivotal: central and important
• Polluter/Polluters: people or organizations that make an area or substance (usually air, water, or soil) dirty or harmful to people, animals, and plants, especially by adding harmful chemicals.
• Precious: of great value because of being rare, expensive, or important
• Priceless: an object has such a high value, especially because it is rare that the price of it cannot be calculated
• Pride and joy: a person or thing that gives someone great joy and satisfaction
• Pristine: new or almost new, and in very good condition
• Protagonist: one of the main characters in a story or a play. This is often the 'hero' or 'heroine' of the story
• Put up with: to accept or continue to accept an unpleasant situation or experience, or someone who behaves unpleasantly
• Quintessential: being the most typical example or most important part of something
• Rags: clothes that are old and torn
• Reduce: to become or to make something become smaller in size, amount, degree, importance, etc.
• Regeneration: the act of improving a place or system, especially by making it more active or successful
• Reinforced: to make something stronger
• Relentless: continuing in a severe or extreme way
• Rendititions: particular ways of performing a song, piece of music, or poem
• Renting: offered by the owner for someone else to use in exchange for money (to borrow something for money)
• Repercussions: the effects that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially bad effects
• Repurpose: to find a new use for an idea, product, or building
• Responsibility: something that it is your job or duty to deal with
• Revenue: the income that a government or company receives regularly
• Rise above: to not allow something bad to affect your behavior or upset you
• Rogue: behaving in ways that are not expected or not normal, often in a way that causes damage
• Rookie: a person who is new to an organization or an activity
• Rub them the wrong way: to annoy someone without intending to
• Rubies: a transparent, dark red precious stone often used in jewelry
• Run-of-the-mill: ordinary and not special or exciting in any way
• Runway: the long, narrow stage that models walk along in a fashion show (catwalk)
• Severed: to break or separate, especially by cutting
• Shedding: to get rid of something you do not need or want
• Shortchanged: to give someone back less money than they are owed when the person is buying something from you / to treat someone unfairly, by giving them less than they deserve
• Skyrocketed: to rise extremely quickly or make extremely quick progress towards success
• Sought-after: much in demand; generally desired
• Suffocating: to (cause someone to) die because of not having enough oxygen
• Supply chain: the system of people and things that are involved in getting a product from the place where it is made to the person who buys it
• Swanky: US: very expensive and fashionable, in a way that is intended to attract people's attention and admiration / UK: behaving too confidently
• Taunt: to intentionally annoy and upset someone by making unkind remarks to them, laughing unkindly at them, etc.
• Technicolor: a brand name for a special process for making cinema films in color
• Atonement/To atone for: to do something that shows that you are sorry for something bad that you did
• Engage with/Engaging in: to take part in something
• Follow suit: to do the same thing as someone else
• Traipsing: to walk from one place to another, often feeling tired or bored
• Tropes: something such as an idea, phrase, or image that is often used in a particular artist's work, in a particular type of art, in the media, etc. (e.g., robots are a classic trope of science fiction)
• Trials and tribulations: troubles and events that cause suffering
• Unsustainable/Sustainability: something that is unsustainable cannot continue at the same rate / causing damage to the environment by using more of something than can be replaced naturally
• Vanity: the fact that you're too interested in your appearance or achievements
• Vibrate with life: full of energy
• Wardrobe: a tall cupboard (piece of furniture) in which you hang your clothes
• Wits: intelligence and the ability to think quickly
• You have big shoes to fill: to have to be extremely good in order to be as good as the person who had a particular job or position before you

Idioms or Phrases

• If the shoe fits, wear it: used to tell someone that they should accept a criticism that another person has made.
• To take it for granted: to believe something to be the truth without even thinking about it.
• On good footing: to be in an equal or good relationship with someone
• On par: the same as or equal to someone or something
• Someone's pride and joy: a person or thing that gives someone great joy and satisfaction
• Try walking in my shoes: to imagine how someone else feels in a difficult situation