Synonym: Subside

Antonym: Intensify

Chicanery: The use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose.

Synonym: Trickery

Antonym: Bluntness

Disseminate: To scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse.

Synonym: Advertise

Antonym: Hide

Gainsay: Deny or contradict (a fact or statement).

Synonym: Combat

Antonym: Confirm

Latent: Existing in hidden or dormant form.

Synonym: Lurking

Antonym: Obvious

Aberrant: Departing from an accepted standard.

Synonym: Abnormal

Antonym: Traditional

Exult: Lively, or triumphant joy.

Analogy: A form of comparison.

A. Video recording is a useful technique for evaluating your own speech. The benefits include easy access, online, you can try multiple times to record, etc.

B. There was no time to exult; we were out of the building, but the enemy was on our trail. It would waste precious time and energy to stand around and waste time that could put us in an even more dangerous circumstance.

C. Consider the analogy of a narrow road winding along the edge of a cliff. Using this comparison, we can understand better that it is dangerous and requires caution at use.

Recede:

Entry: I decided to recede because of the pressure.

Synonym: Backward

Antonym: Forward

Enthusiastic:

Entry: I was very enthusiastic about going to the party.

Synonym: Excited

Antonym: Scared

Formidable:

Entry: My parents can be very formidable.

Synonym: Terrifying

Antonym: Welcoming

Entry: The lady was very impertinent.

Synonym: Rude

Antonym: Kind

Unanimous:

Entry: The document was found to be unanimous.

Synonym: Agreeable

Antonym: Disagreeable

Immune:

Entry: I am apparently immune to all sickness.

Synonym: Protected

Antonym: Disclosed

Hypocrisy: The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not confirm; pretense.

Inference: A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

Entry- The students randomly chose different desired concepts for the upcoming essay.

Entry- The candidate was called a hypocrite after talking about how terrible it is that innocent people become falsely accused, he continued to blame an innocent man for his own crime.

Entry- The people of the town were convinced that the mayor was immune to their pleas, so they created a strategy to sway the hypocritical man.

Sentence- Though the man was quite strange, he was a good man and was very considerate when he donated all that money to the charity.

Bad- nasty, terrible, awful, grim, dreadful, unfortunate, disagreeable, adverse, unwelcome, regrettable.

Sentence- The bad guy in this movie I want to watch is awesome, I've heard he is absolutely dreadful.

Big- large, sizable, substantial, colossal, immense, massive, huge, significant, major, weighty.

Sentence- The boat was very sizable, the immense size of the colossal thing was insane!

Little- small, compact, mini, miniature, tiny, minute, minuscule, toy, pocket, undersized.

Sentence- The little teddy bear was so cute and minuscule, the toy was cherished by the children for years within their childhood.

Happy- contented, content, cheerful, glad, cheery, merry, joyful, gleeful, jocular, fortunate.

Sentence- I am so happy after the party last night, my family was glad to have a night to themselves as well.

Sad- unhappy, sorrowful, dejected, regretful, depressed, downcast, miserable, down, despondent, disconsolate.

Pretty- attractive, lovely, good-looking, fetching, prepossessing, quite, rather, passably, fairly, reasonably.

Ugly- unattractive, ill-favored, hideous, plain-looking, plain-featured, tense, charged, disagreeable, perilous, hostile.

Terrible- dreadful, abominable, abhorrent, frightful, fearful, atrocious, shocking, hideous, horrendous, horrible.

Wonderful- admirable, magnificent, superb, glorious, lovely, delightful, sublime, first-class, first-rate, great.

Dull- uninteresting, dark, somber, boring, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, dry, ease, allay.

Exciting- thrilling, exhilarating, stirring, rousing, stimulating, intoxicating, electrifying, moving, inspiring, compelling.

"Thrilling", the synonym for exciting, is my favorite synonym of the many provided above.

Sentence using "Thrilling"- The roller coaster at the amusement park was absolutely thrilling.

After Tommy's joke, everyone looked jovial.

Bizarre- Very strange or unusual.

The sheep are acting very bizarre today.

Renegade- A person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.

The renegade had recently made threats to the government.

Thomas Jefferson Quote Rewrite:

We practice these truths to be assured that all people are created equal. And that they are created with these right as a human being, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

On Veterans Day, city officials lower all flag to half-staff to celebrate the sacrifices of the military personnel and their families.

The price of gas evened out in mid-summer.

Letting sleeping dogs lie, means to not cause a situation where there isn't one.

Renaissance- The revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries

Decorum- Behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety.

a. It was full of many who need to be tamed.

b. This fad was popular at the time, hence the reference in the art.

c. ...she prepared herself to be camera ready.

Synonym- Cartoon.

Antonym- Reality.

1. He had looked like a caricature of who he used to be.

2. The boy in the cartoon was very lively and laughable.

3. The reality is, cartoons are not real.

Laconic- Short; brief; pithy; sententious; expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Spartans; as a laconic phrase.

Despondent- Losing courage at the loss of hope; sinking into dejection; depressed and inactive in despair.

1. The office was full of laughter.

2. By how his son was working, the dad could tell that his son was not interested in their conversation.

3. The young father was very upset after the loss of his job as well as the death of his wife, he later searched the depths of the river.

The little chairs are filled with primary children.  The prelude music is playing and everything is being made ready to start.  When the opening prayer was said and the rows of children are being eyed by the teachers, one little fellow wouldn't be found.  Suddenly the lights are turned out and the classroom is filled with darkness.  Fearful shouts can be heard as chairs are jostled and knocked over.  The problem is known to the Sunbeam teacher.  The sound of her calls to “Wilson Siukitu’atonga!” can be heard by everyone.  The teacher is moving toward the table as little giggles are starting. She is bending down when her leg is brushed by little hands and Wilson is apprehended.

Chronology- The arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence.

Despondent- Feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression.

Laconic- (of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words.

Parasite- an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.

Accentuate- Make more noticeable or prominent.

Fallacy- a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.

Decorum- Behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety.

Undulate- To move with a sinuous or wavelike motion.

• His answer was very blunt when what she wanted was a helpful explanation.

• His life was one of resourcefulness.

• The group was too open for viewing as a vengeful mob.

• The belief, while not very talked about, of a flat world, was a popular notion long ago.

• The schedule of outcomes for your day begins when you wake up and ends when you go to bed.