Day 36

TOP 10 WORDS OF THE DAY

1) Word: Ineptitude (N)
Meaning: Awkwardness, inability
Opposite: Skill
Example: They joked about his ineptitude.

2) Word: Pandemic (Adj,N)
Meaning: Widespread
Opposite: Uncommon
Example: What action can a country take against a pandemic?

3) Word: Dinky(Adj,N)
Meaning: Attractively small
Opposite: Huge
Example: We stayed in a dinky old hotel.

4) Word: Shrill(Adj,V)
Meaning: High-pitched
Opposite: Low,soft
Example: A shrill cry penetrated the silence.

5) Word: Inure (V)
Meaning: Harden, familiarise
Opposite: Sensitise
Example: We should inure ourselves to hard life.

6) Word: Cessation (N)
Meaning: Termination,cease
Opposite: Commencement, activity
Example: He would not agree to a cessation of hostilities. 

7) Word: Whittling (Verb present participle)
Meaning: Diminish,ruin
Opposite: Increase
Example: Inflation has been whittling away their savings.

8) Word: Desist (V)
Meaning: Suspend,give up
Opposite: Continue
Example: You should desist from such foolish activities.

9) Word: Imprimatur (N)
Meaning: Permission
Opposite: Prohibition
Example: Best of all,the imprimatur seems to last for years.

10) Word: Inscrutable (Adj)
Meaning: Unreadable, unintelligent
Opposite: Understandable
Example: He stood silent and inscrutable.