Daily Vocabulary – 8 May 2025

Synonyms: Analyze, Determine, Investigate, Pinpoint

Antonyms: Miss, Overlook, Misdiagnose

Example: She was <strong>diagnosed</strong> as having cancer.

Trick: The boy was supposed to be diagnosed.

Synonyms: Aggravate, Make Worse, Worsen, Inflame.

Antonyms: Calm, Reduce, Aid, Appease.

Example: The proposed factory shutdown would only <strong>exacerbate</strong> our unemployment problems.

Trick: The boy exacerbates and aggravate the situation.

Synonyms: Criticize, Demean, Deprecate, Diminish.

Antonyms: Elevated, Praised, Promoted, Celebrated.

Example: The effect of this has been to increasingly <strong>marginalize</strong> the local authority sector.

Trick: This team is marginalized and subsidized.

Synonyms: Depend, Count, Bank, Bargain

Antonyms: Distrust, Disbelieve, Forbid, Disallow

Example: My mother <strong>relied</strong> on me for financial support.

Trick: The man relied on the person who lied to him.

Synonyms: Drinking, Expenditure, Utilization, Burning

Antonyms: Building, Construction, Creation, Development

Example: Most of the wine was unfit for human <strong>consumption</strong>.

Trick: The consumption of medicine is required in this situation.

Synonyms: Exhort, Teach, Address, Deliver

Antonyms: Attack, Deny, Disagree, Disallow

Example: The minister <strong>preached</strong> to the congregation about the need for tolerance.

Trick: The man is preaching by teaching.

Synonyms: Collaborate, Combine, Connect, Cooperate

Antonyms: Discord, Divide, Part, Separation

Example: Dominique's teacher says that she <strong>interacts</strong> well with the other children.

Trick: They all rejected the way they interacted.

Synonyms: Circumstances, Conditions, Surroundings, Factors

Antonyms: Ignorance, Nothing, Insignificance, Meaninglessness

Example: The book puts these events in their proper historical and social <strong>contexts</strong>.

Trick: The context is to an extent.

Synonyms: Endure, Persevere, Prevail, Pursue

Antonyms: Quitted, Submitted, Yielded, Bowed

Example: He <strong>persisted</strong> in his efforts to free them.

Trick: They persisted and assisted towards the goal.

Synonyms: Acquisition, Ownership, Accession, Possession

Antonyms: Discourage, Dissuade, Fail, Forfeit

Example: Laws will simplify <strong>procurement</strong> in the public sector.

Trick: The procurement was done by management.

Synonyms: Begun, Initiated, Launched, Started

Antonyms: Dropped, Quit, Gave Up, Quitted

Example: he would not have <strong>attempted</strong> the life of a friend.

Trick: The people are attempting for exempting the tax.

Synonyms: Result, Outcome, Sequel, Effect

Antonyms: Cause, Origin, Source, Beginning,

Example: The money was of little <strong>consequence</strong> to Tony.

Trick: The sequences are changes due to bad consequences.

Synonyms: Absolutely, Assuredly, Exactly, Surely

Antonyms: Doubtfully, Questionably, Dubiously, Equivocally

Example: She <strong>certainly</strong> has a lot of talent.

Trick: This man was mainly and certainly from this group

Synonyms: Conclude, Envision, Forecast, Foresee

Antonyms: Ignore, Calculate, Disbelieve, Measure

Example: The <strong>predicted</strong> growth in road traffic.

Trick: His addicted work was predicted.

Synonyms: Allowed, Permitted, Conceded, Authorized

Antonyms: Denied, Refused, Rejected, Withheld

Example: She was <strong>granted</strong> permission to attend the conference.

Trick: They grant a vibrant life to the kids.