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📚Gds  Weekly vocabulary session📚 

26/03/2022(Saturday-09:05 pm) 📰

1. ASSERTIVE (ADJECTIVE): : Confident

Synonyms: Forceful, Self-confident

Antonyms: Retiring

Example Sentence:


The job may call for assertive behavior.

2. SLOPPY (ADJECTIVE): : Careless

Synonyms: Slapdash, Slipshod

Antonyms: Careful

Example Sentence:

We gave away a goal through sloppy defending.

3. THRIVE (VERB): : Flourish

Synonyms: Prosper Burgeon

Antonyms: Increase

Example Sentence:

Education groups tend to thrive on organization.

4. CONVENTIONAL (ADJECTIVE):: Normal

Synonyms: Standard, Regular

Antonyms: Original

Example Sentence:

A conventional morality had dictated behavior.

5. SABOTAGE (VERB): 
: Wreck

Synonyms: Vandalize, Destroy

Antonyms: Strengthen

Example Sentence:

Power lines from South Africa were sabotaged by rebel forces.

6. ABEYANCE (ADJECTIVE): : Suspension

Synonyms: Remission, Suspense

Antonyms: In Hand

Example Sentence:

Matters were held in abeyance pending further enquiries.

7. ABRIDGE (VERB): : Shorten

Synonyms: Cut, Curtail

Antonyms: Lengthen

Example Sentence:

The introduction is abridged from the author's afterword to the novel.

8. SPUR (VERB): : Stimulate

Synonyms: Encourage, Prompt

Antonyms: Discourage

Example Sentence:

Her sons' passion for computer games spurred her to set up a software business.

9. COMPLACENCY (NOUN) : : Smugness

Synonyms: Self-satisfaction,Self-approval

Antonyms: Dissatisfaction

Example Sentence:

The figures are better, but there are no grounds for complacency.

10. DESCEND (VERB): : Drop

Synonyms: Go down, Come down

Antonyms: Ascend

Example Sentence:

The aircraft began to descend.


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