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Vocabulary - 23.01.2016

Bankers Guru

1. JAB (NOUN): poke

Synonyms: dig, punch 

Antonyms: pull, stretch

Example Sentence:

Even Gingrich, after complimenting Cain's attempt to simplify a complex idea, took a jab at the pizza guy.


2. GOOSE (NOUN): encouragement

Synonyms: assistance, support Antonyms: hindrance, check

Example Sentence:

It does no good to goose your manufacturing exports with a devaluation if your manufacturers can't buy raw materials.


3. DOGNAP (VERB): take by force and without permission

Synonyms: seize, snatch Antonyms: give, release 

Example Sentence:

In another change since his transit days, crooks now dognap cellphones, not gold chains.


4. JILLION (NOUN): abundance

Synonyms: bunch, bulk Antonyms: part, little

Example Sentence:

I've said all this a jillion times before, but it is simply not a mainstream political party in the traditional American sense.


5. VIGIL (NOUN): watch

Synonyms: observance, patrol Antonyms: ignorance, negligence

Example Sentence:

It was left to a handful of workers' rights advocates to hold a quiet candlelight vigil in his honor.


6. TRUCULENT (ADJECTIVE): ready to fight, cruel

Synonyms: sarcastic, scathing Antonyms: soothing, nice

Example Sentence:

This club doesn’t really attract the dangerous types, so why was that bouncer being so truculent?


7. APODICTIC (ADJECTIVE): of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain

Synonyms: unerring, dependable Antonyms: faulty, imperfect

Example Sentence:

It is apodictic that inadvertent disclosures may work a waiver of the attorney-client privilege.


8. TENEBROUS (ADJECTIVE): dark, ominous

Synonyms: ambiguous, dingy Antonyms: inviting, light

Example Sentence:

The Republicans, however, sat with tenebrous expressions that matched the black curtain hiding their legs.


9. RAPACIOUS (ADJECTIVE): plundering

Synonyms: ferocious, greedy Antonyms: satisfied, contented

Example Sentence:

The jury found it easier to see her as the rapacious sinner than as the beautiful blue-eyed saint.


10. BEATITUDE (NOUN): a state of supreme happiness or blessedness

Synonyms: bliss, ecstasy Antonyms: sorrow, misery

Example Sentence:

His face had taken on the expression of imbecile beatitude the religious sometimes adopt.

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