📚Gds  Weekly vocabulary session📚 
03/05/2022(Tuesday -09:05 pm) 📰

1.CONFER (VERB): : bestow on

Synonyms: 
present with/to, grant to

Antonyms: withhold

Example Sentence:

The Minister may have exceeded the powers conferred on him by Parliament.

2.SHED (VERB): : dismiss

Synonyms:
 let go, discharge

Antonyms: hire

Example Sentence:


Many firms use relocation as an opportunity to shed jobs.

3.WRANGLE (NOUN): : argument

Synonyms:
 dispute, disagreement

Antonyms: agreement

Example Sentence:

An insurance wrangle is holding up compensation payments.

4.INCLUSIVE (ADJECTIVE): : all-in

Synonyms:
 all-inclusive comprehensive

Antonyms: exclusive

Example Sentence:

They have menus stating fully inclusive prices.

5.IMPLICIT (ADJECTIVE): : implied

Synonyms: 
indirect, inferred

Antonyms: explicit

Example Sentence:

Comments seen as implicit criticism of the policies.

6.ILLICIT (ADJECTIVE): : illegal

Synonyms:
 unlawful, illegitimate

Antonyms: licit

Example Sentence:

She was in possession of illicit drugs.

7.HUMILIATE (VERB): : embarrass

Synonyms:
 mortify, humble

Antonyms: aggrandize

Example Sentence:

You'll humiliate me in front of the whole school!

8.DESTRUCTIVE (ADJECTIVE): : negative

Synonyms:
 hostile, antagonistic

Antonyms: constructive

Example Sentence:

One should never practice destructive criticism.

9.MORATORIUM (NOUN): : embargo

Synonyms: 
ban, prohibition

Antonyms: permission

Example Sentence:

A moratorium has been put on the use of drift nets.

10.INDISPENSABLE (ADJECTIVE): : essential

Synonyms:
 crucial necessary

Antonyms: dispensable

Example Sentence:

He made himself indispensable to the parish priest.




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