📚Gds  Weekly vocabulary session📚 

19/03/2022(Saturday-09:05 pm) 📰

1.INCURSION (NOUN): : attack on

Synonyms: assault on, raid on

Antonyms: retreat

Example Sentence:

Government forces were able to halt the rebel incursion.

2. AVARICIOUS (ADJECTIVE): : grasping

Synonyms: acquisitive, covetous

Antonyms: generous

Example Sentence:

He showed none of the avaricious temper so common among the politicians.

3. MYRIAD (ADJECTIVE): : innumerable

Synonyms: countless infinite

Antonyms: countable

Example Sentence:

He gazed at the myriad lights of the city.

4. EXORBITANT (ADJECTIVE): : extortionate

Synonyms: extremely, high

Antonyms: reasonable

Example Sentence:

Some hotels charge exorbitant rates for phone calls.
5.TRIVIALITY (NOUN): : unimportance

Synonyms: insignificance, pettiness

Antonyms: importance

Example Sentence:

There is mediocrity and triviality in the current popular culture.

6. NARCISSISTIC (ADJECTIVE): : vain

Synonyms: self-absorbed, self-obsessed

Antonyms: modest

Example Sentence:

She is a narcissistic actress.

7. LINGER (VERB): : persist

Synonyms: continue, remain

Antonyms: vanish

Example Sentence:

The tradition seems to linger on.

8. BENEVOLENT (ADJECTIVE): : kind

Synonyms: kindly, kind-hearted

Antonyms: unkind

Example Sentence:

He was something of a benevolent despot.

9. DUBIOUS (ADJECTIVE): : equivocal

Synonyms: ambiguous, indeterminate

Antonyms: decisive

Example Sentence:

He holds the dubious distinction of being lowered by every club he has played for.

10. FLOUT (VERB): : defy

Synonyms: go against, scorn

Antonyms: observe

Example Sentence:

He flouted all the rules and regulations.

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