Vocabulary English for specific purpose
Words | Means | IPA | Synonym | Antonym | Example of sentences |
Widdershins | This obsolete adverb(used only facetiously and in some Scottish dialects) | Wid’er-shinz | counter clockwise | clockwise | I point out that the day may soon come when clockwise with hands are obsolete. |
vilipend | Related to vile and vilification, vilipend is a word that implies disparagement, slander or critics, but usually with a fairly light and mocking tone. | Vil’i-pend | disparagement | praise | A particularly good term to refer to a certain style of literary and academic mockery and god knows there are enough people out there who need to be vilipend. |
xenium | A gift made to guest or ambassador and any compulsory gift. | Zee’ni-um | Jewellery expensive | Artificial jewellery | My gift of xenium to you is most definitely desired. |
Tregetour | Someone who uses cunning deceive others (sometimes but not limited to stage performance magician. | Trej’e-ter | Huckster | customer | A useful poetic word for a magician, but also a more pleasant sounding name for a huckster. |
Skeuomorph | Originally used in architecture and archaeology to refer to a feature whose origin was a functional, but whose only vestige was as a decorative ornament. | Skyoo’e-murf | artefact | Natural object | The scientist has found an artefact at the cave that have in Malaysia. |
Nepenthe | Something, such as a drink or a drug, capable of making one forgets suffering. | Ni-pen’thee | intoxicated | sober | The use of nepenthe today largely reflects the reputed powers of alcohol to get rid of the memory of one’s woes. |
Peccavi | An admission of sin or silt, not only is this word’s meaning unique and its sound very interesting but it gave rise to the most witty multilingual pun of all time. | Pek-ah-vee | Sinned | reward | Who make a sinned must be have forgiveness from the God. |
Miasma | Foul vapours emitted from rotting matter, unwholesome air atmosphere. | mi-az’me | pollution | conservation | I can safely predict with the current state of the environment that miasma may become a much more common word in the next fifty years. |
zetetic | A term originally used to refer to pyrhonists, a group of ancient greek sceptics; it has come to mean both the process of inquiry and one who so proceeds. | Ze-tet’ik | investigation | indifferent | A zetetic is thus a sort of intellectual agnostic who while seeking greater truths is always wary of falsehood. |
tantivy | Tantivy is most often used today as an adverb but can also be used as a noun (a hunting cry) an adjective (swift, speedy) and an interjection (the sound of the horn of horses hooves. No one knows the origins of this peculiar. | Tan-tiv’ee | speedy | slowed | The driver was drive in high speedy that make all people in the bus was scared. |
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