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  📚Gds  Weekly vocabulary session📚 
26/05/2022(Thursday -09:05 pm) 📰


1. ANNIHILATE (VERB): : destroy

Synonyms: wipe out, obliterate

Antonyms: create

Example Sentence:

A simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all.

2. INHERENT (ADJECTIVE): : intrinsic

Synonyms:
 innate, immanent

Antonyms: acquired

Example Sentence:

Any form of mountaineering has its inherent dangers.

3. PROTRACT (VERB): : prolong

Synonyms: 
extend, draw out

Antonyms: curtail

Example Sentence:


He had certainly taken his time, even protracting the process.

4. ABREAST (ADVERB): : up with

Synonyms:
 up to date with, in touch with

Antonyms: 
out of touch with

Example Sentence:

In modern times, one has to keep abreast of developments.

5.RESTITUTION (NOUN): : return

Synonyms:
 restoration, replacement

Antonyms: seizure

Example Sentence:

The ANC had demanded the restitution of land seized from black people.

6. WITHER (VERB): : wilt

Synonyms: 
droop, fade

Antonyms:
 thrive

Example Sentence:

The grass had withered to an unappealing brown.

7. ANTIPATHY (NOUN): : hostility

Synonyms:
 antagonism, animosity

Antonyms: liking

Example Sentence:

He certainly had antipathy to capitalism.


8. LIBERAL (ADJECTIVE): : generous

Synonyms:
 magnanimous, open-handed

Antonyms: miserly

Example Sentence:

Sam was too liberal with the wine.

9.EMPATHY (NOUN): : affinity with

Synonyms:
 rapport with, togetherness

Antonyms: distance

Example Sentence:

She'd been incapable of empathy or remorse.

10. ACCEDE (VERB): : accept

Synonyms:
 endorse, go along with

Antonyms: refuse

Example Sentence:

He did not accede to his child’s demands.

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