📚Gds  Weekly vocabulary session📚 
17/05/2022(Tuesday -09:05 pm) 📰

1. BURGEON (VERB): : expand

Synonyms: 
shoot up, swell

Antonyms: shrink

Example Sentence:
The city's suburbs have burgeoned, sprawling out from the centre.

2. RADICAL (ADJECTIVE): : thorough

Synonyms:
 thoroughgoing, complete

Antonyms: superficial

Example Sentence:
A radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework is needed.

3.ABRASIVE (ADJECTIVE): : caustic

Synonyms: 
cutting, grating

Antonyms: kind

Example Sentence:
Her abrasive and arrogant personal style won her few friends.

4.ANNIHILATE (VERB): : destroy

Synonyms: 
wipe out, obliterate

Antonyms: create

Example Sentence:

A simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all.

5.COMPATIBLE (ADJECTIVE): : consistent

Synonyms:
 reconcilable consonant

Antonyms: inconsistent

Example Sentence:

The symptoms were compatible with gastritis or a peptic ulcer.

6.PROVOCATIVE (ADJECTIVE): : annoying

Synonyms:
 irritating, exasperating

Antonyms: soothing

Example Sentence:

He got offended by a provocative article.

7.IMPAIR (VERB): : damage

Synonyms:
 harm, diminish

Antonyms: improve

Example Sentence:

A noisy job could permanently impair their hearing.

8.FORMIDABLE (ADJECTIVE): : intimidating

Synonyms:
 forbidding, redoubtable

Antonyms: comforting

Example Sentence:

In debate he was a formidable opponent.

9. EXPLICABLE (ADJECTIVE): : comprehensible

Synonyms:
 understandable, definable

Antonyms: inexplicable

Example Sentence:

Differences in schools were not explicable in terms of differences in intake.

10.DREADFUL (ADJECTIVE): : terrible

Synonyms:
 frightful, horrible

Antonyms: mild

Example Sentence:

He survived a dreadful accident.



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