Week 8  5/16

1.      Census (n.)

Meaning: the official process of counting the number of people in a country, city, or town and collecting information about them

Sample sentence: According to the latest census, the racial makeup of the town has changed dramatically in the last 50 years.

Synonyms: count, tale, tally

 

2.      Displace (v.)

Meaning 1: to take the job or position of (someone or something)

Meaning 2: to force (people or animals) to leave the area where they live

Meaning 3: to remove (someone) from a job or position

Sample sentence: The hurricane displaced most of the town's residents.

Synonyms: budge, dislocate, move, disturb, relocate, remove, reposition, shift, transfer, transpose

Antonyms: crown, enthrone, throne

 

3.      Restore (v.)

Meaning 1: to give back (someone or something that was lost or taken) : to return (someone or something)

Meaning 2: to put or bring (something) back into existence or use

Meaning 3: to return (something) to an earlier or original condition by repairing it, cleaning it, etc.

Sample sentence: The government needs to restore confidence in the economy.

Synonyms: freshen, recharge, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regenerate, rejuvenate, repair, renew, resuscitate, revitalize, revive, revivify

 

4.      Partition (n.) (v.)

Meaning 1: a wall or screen that separates one area from another

Meaning 2: the division of a country into separate political units

Meaning 3: to divide (something) into parts or shares

Meaning 4: to divide (a country) into two or more parts having separate political status

Sample sentence: It was necessary to partition the work to be done to make the job easier to accomplish.

Synonyms: member, part, portion, section, segment

Antonyms: unification, union

 

5.      Layout (n.)

Meaning: the design or arrangement of something : the way something is laid out

Sample sentence: The layout of the apartment was good, but the kitchen was too small.

Synonyms: arrangement, configuration, conformation, formation, format, setout, setup

 

6.      Shift (v.) (n.)

Meaning 1: to move or to cause (something or someone) to move to a different place, position, etc.

Meaning 2: to change or to cause (something) to change to a different opinion, belief, etc.

Meaning 3: to go or to cause (something) to go from one person or thing to another

Meaning 4: a change in position or direction

Meaning 5: a change in how something is done or how people think about something

Meaning 6: a group of people who work together during a scheduled period of time

Sample sentence: There will be a shift of responsibility when she takes the new position.

Synonyms: expedient, means, move, measure, step

Antonyms: motionlessness

 

7.      Radiance (n.)

Meaning 1: a quality of brightness and happiness that can be seen on a person's face

Meaning 2: a warm, soft light that shines from something

Sample sentence: She had a youthful radiance about her.

Synonyms: brightness, brilliancy, candor, dazzle, effulgence, illumination, lambency, lightness, luminance, luminosity, luminousness, brilliance, refulgence, splendor

Antonyms: blackness, dark, darkness, duskiness

 

8.      Mount (n.) (v.)

Meaning 1: to go or climb up (something) : to climb up onto (something)

Meaning 2: to increase in amount

Meaning 3: to seat yourself on a horse, bicycle, etc.

Sample sentence: The cowboy mounted his horse and then quickly dismounted.

Synonyms: expand, gain, increase, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, rise, roll up, snowball, spread, swell

Antonyms: contract, decrease, diminish, dwindle, lessen, recede, wane

 

9.      Rack (n.) (v.)

Meaning 1: a wind-driven mass of high often broken clouds

Meaning 2: to fly or scud in high wind

 

10.  Hinged (n.) (v.)

Meaning 1: a usually metal piece that attaches a door, gate, or cover to something and allows it to open and close

Meaning 2: to attach (a door, gate, or cover) by hinges

Synonyms: hang, depend, ride, turn

 

11.  Impose (v.)

Meaning 1: to cause (something, such as a tax, fine, rule, or punishment) to affect someone or something by using your authority

Meaning 2: to establish or create (something unwanted) in a forceful or harmful way

Meaning 3: to force someone to accept (something or yourself)

Sample sentence: I needed to break free from the limits imposed by my own fear of failure.

Synonyms: assess, charge, exact, fine, lay, levy, put

Antonyms: remit

 

12.  Briefcase (n.)

Meaning: a flat case that is used for carrying papers or books

 

13.  Suspend (v.)

Meaning 1: to force (someone) to leave a job, position, or place for a usually short period of time as a form of punishment

Meaning 2: to stop (something) for a usually short period of time

Meaning 3: to make (something) happen later : to delay (something)

Sample sentence: He was suspended from the team for missing too many practices.

Synonyms: prorogate, prorogue, recess, adjourn

Antonyms: interrupt; defer, hold off, postpone, put off, reserve, shelve, table; dissolve, end, halt, stop, terminate; break up

 

14.  Attorney (n.)

Meaning: one who is legally appointed to transact business on another's behalf; especially : lawyer

Sample sentence: <talked to the count's attorney about buying land from his estate>

Synonyms: assignee, agent, commissary, delegate, deputy, envoy, factor, minister, procurator, proxy, rep, representative

 

15.  Incite (v.)

Meaning 1: to cause (someone) to act in an angry, harmful, or violent way

Meaning 2: to cause (an angry, harmful, or violent action or feeling)

Sample sentence: The news incited widespread fear and paranoia.

Synonyms: abet, brew, ferment, foment, instigate, pick, provoke, raise, stir (up), whip (up), set in motion

 

16.  Supremacy (n.)

Meaning: the quality or state of having more power, authority, or status than anyone else : the state of being supreme

Sample sentence: White supremacy implies black inferiority.

Synonyms: ascendancy (also ascendency), dominance, domination, dominion, hegemony, imperium, predominance, preeminence, reign

Antonyms: helplessness, weakness; impotence, impotency, powerlessness

 

17.  Entrench (v.)

Meaning: to place (someone or something) in a very strong position that cannot easily be changed

Sample sentence: <a father who entrenched in our minds the belief that hard work pays off>

Synonyms: bed, embed (also imbed), enroot, fix, impact, implant, ingrain (also engrain), lodge, root

Antonyms: dislodge, root (out), uproot

 

18.  Menial (n.) (adj.)

Meaning 1: a person (such as a servant) who does boring or unpleasant work for little money : someone who does menial work

Meaning 2: used to describe boring or unpleasant work that does not require special skill and usually does not pay much money

Sample sentence: <every command was obeyed in the menial manner of someone who seemed grateful just to be in the presence of a celebrity>

Synonyms: base, humble, abject, servile, slavish

Antonyms: arrogant, haughty, high-handed, imperious, lordly, supercilious, superior, uppity

 

19.  Breed (v.) (n.)

Meaning 1: to keep and take care of animals or plants in order to produce more animals or plants of a particular kind

Meaning 2: to produce young animals, birds, etc. : to produce offspring by sexual reproduction

Meaning 3: to take care of and teach (a child who is growing up)

Meaning 4: a particular kind of dog, cat, horse, etc. : a kind of animal that has been produced by breeding

Meaning 5: a kind of person

Sample sentence: The collie is a working breed.

Synonyms: sort, class, description, feather, genre, ilk, kidney, kind, like, manner, nature, order, species, strain, stripe, type, variety

Antonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mishandle, mistreat; ignore, neglect; harm, hurt, injure

 

20.  Render (v.) (n.)

Meaning 1: to cause (someone or something) to be in a specified condition

Meaning 2: to give (something) to someone

Meaning 3: law : to officially report or declare (a legal judgment, such as a verdict)

Meaning 4: a return especially in goods or services due from a feudal tenant to his lord

Sample sentence: Depression can render a person helpless.

Synonyms: cede, cough up, deliver, give up, hand over, lay down, relinquish, surrender, turn in, turn over, yield

Antonyms: originate

 

21.  Surveillance (n.)

Meaning: the act of carefully watching someone or something especially in order to prevent or detect a crime

Sample sentence: The bank robbery was recorded by surveillance video cameras.

Synonyms: care, charge, guidance, headship, oversight, regulation, stewardship, superintendence, supervision

 

22.  Illegitimacy

Meaning: the quality or state of being illegitimate

Sample sentence: <she had learned of her illegitimacy while rummaging through old family records in the attic>

Synonyms: bar sinister, bastardy, spuriousness

Antonyms: legitimacy

 

23.  Fester (n.) (v.)

Meaning 1: to become painful and infected

Meaning 2: to become worse as time passes

Sample sentence: His wounds festered for days before he got medical attention.

Synonyms: break down, corrupt, decompose, disintegrate, decay, foul, mold, molder, perish [chiefly British], putrefy, rot, spoil

Antonyms: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate

 

24.  Endorse (v.)

Meaning 1: to publicly or officially say that you support or approve of (someone or something)

Meaning 2: to publicly say that you like or use (a product or service) in exchange for money

Meaning 3: to write your name on the back of (a check)

Sample sentence: That brand of sneaker is endorsed by several basketball stars.

Synonyms: advocate, back, champion, support (also indorse), patronize, plump (for), plunk (for)

Antonyms: baffle, foil, frustrate, interfere, oppose, sabotage, thwart; desert, disappoint, fail, let down

 

25.  Menfolk (n.)

Meaning: the men of a family, town, etc.