Vocabulary

Arc

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:14:00 -0800

Noun:

Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
A continuous portion of a circle
Something curved in shape

Usage:
Verb:

Form an arch or curve
Form an electrical arc

Usage:

"her back arcs"

Synonyms:

Arch
Bow
Curve
Discharge
Electric Arc
Electric Discharge
Spark

Boldface

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:29:00 -0800

Noun:

A typeface with thick heavy lines

Usage:

Print in boldface

Synonyms:

Bold Face

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:27:00 -0800

Noun:

A typeface with thick heavy lines

Usage:

Print in boldface

Synonyms:

Bold
Boldface

Supernal

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Mon, 7 Jan 2019 21:34:00 -0800

Adjective:

Being or coming from on high
Of heaven or the spirit

Usage:

"interpret the plague as a visitation from heaven, a supernal punishment for the sins of men"
"the supernal happiness of a quiet death"

Adverb:

Supernally

Synonyms:

Celestial
Ethereal
Etherial

Celestial

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Mon, 7 Jan 2019 21:31:00 -0800

Adjective:

Of or relating to the sky
Relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven
Of heaven or the spirit

Usage:

"celestial map"
"celestial beings"
"celestial peace"

Noun:

Heaven
Sky
Celestialness

Adverb:

Celestially

Synonyms:

Ethereal
Etherial
Heavenly
Supernal

Airy

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Mon, 7 Jan 2019 21:27:00 -0800

Adjective:

Open to or abounding in fresh air
Not practical or realizable; speculative
Having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air

Usage:

"airy rooms"
"airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"
"airy gauze curtains"
"an airy apparition"

Noun:

Air
Airiness

Adverb:

Airily

Synonyms:

Aerial
Aeriform
Aery
Aired
Ethereal
Etherial
Impractical
Laputan
Visionary
Windy

Aery

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Mon, 7 Jan 2019 21:23:00 -0800

Adjective:

Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air

Noun:

The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
Any habitation at a high altitude

Synonyms:

Aerial
Aerie
Aeriform
Airy
Ethereal
Etherial
Eyry

Aeriform

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Mon, 7 Jan 2019 20:32:00 -0800

Adjective:

Resembling air or having the form of air
Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air

Usage:

"figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"

Synonyms:

Aerial
Aery
Airlike
Airy
Ethereal
Etherial

Aerial

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:03:00 -0800

Adjective:

(botany) existing, living, growing or operating in the air

Usage:
"aerial roots of a philodendron"; "aerial particles"; "small aerial creatures such as butterflies"; "aerial warfare"; "aerial photography"; "aerial cable cars"

2. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
Usage:

"aerial fancies"

Noun:

An electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals
A pass to a receiver downfield from the passer

Synonyms:

Aeriform
Aery
Airy
Antenna
Ethereal
Etherial
Forward pass
Transmitting aerial

Noun:

Air
Aerialist
Aerialness

Adverb:

Aerially

Four Flush

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:26:00 -0700

Noun: The act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards

Synonyms:
Bluff

Bluff Out

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:24:00 -0700

Noun: (card game) deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand

Synonyms:
Bluff

Inviolable

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:28:00 -0700

Adjective:
1. Incapable of being transgressed or dishonored

Usage:
"the person or the king is inviolable"; "an inviolable oath"

2. Immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with

Usage:
"fortifications that made the frontier inviolable

3. Must be kept sacred

Usage:
"western ethical thinking singled out human life as inviolable

4. Not capable of being violated or infringed

Usage:
"inviolable human rights"

Synonyms:

Absolute
Impregnable
Infrangible
Inviolate
Irrefrangible
Sacrosanct
Secure
Strong
Unassailable
Unattackable

Infrangible

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:42:00 -0700

Adjective:

Difficult or impossible to break or separate into parts

Usage:

"an infrangible series"

2. Not capable of being violated or infringed

Usage:

"Infrangible human rights"

Synonyms:

Absolute

Inviolable

Volatilizable

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:42:00 -0700

Adjective:
1. (Used of substances): capable of being volatilized

Synonyms:
1. Evaporable
2. Vaporific
3. Vaporizable

Vaporizable

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:40:00 -0700

Adjective:
1. (Used of substances): capable of being volatilized

Synonyms:
1. Evaporable
2. Vaporific
3. Volatilizable

Evaporable

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:38:00 -0700

Adjective:
1. (Used of substances) capable of being volatilized

Synonyms:
1. Vaporific
2. Vaporizable
3. Volatilizable

Pellucid

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:12:00 -0700

Adjective:

1. Transmitting light; able to be seen through clarity
(Usage: Able to be seen through clarity)

2. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
(Usage: Pellucid prose)

Synonyms:

Crystal Clear
Crystalline
Limpid
Lucid
Luculent
Perspicuous
Transparent

Lucid

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:07:00 -0700

Adjective:

1. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
(Usage: Lucid directions)

2. Having a clear mind
(Usage: A lucid moment in his madness)

3. Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
(Usage: A lucid thinker)

4. Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
(Usage: Lucid air)

Synonyms:

Coherent
Crystal Clear
Crystalline
Limpid
Logical
Luculent
Pellucid
Perspicuous
Transparent

Limpid

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:03:00 -0700

Adjective:

1. Clear & bright
(Usage: Limpid blue eyes)

2. Transmitting light; able to be seen through clarity
(Usage: could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool)

3. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable

(Usage: writes in a limpid style)

Synonyms:

Crystal Clear
Crystalline
Liquid
Lucid
Luculent
Pellucid
Perspicuous
Transparent

Guileless

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Adjective:

Free of deceit

Synonyms:

Transparent

Crystalline

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:54:00 -0700

Adjective:

1. Consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals
(Usage: Granite is crystalline)

2. Distinctly or sharply outlined
(Usage: Crystalline sharpness of outline)

3. Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
(Usage: The cold crystalline water of melted snow)

Synonyms:

Crystal Clear
Limpid
Lucid
Pellucid
Transparent

Crystal Clear

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 23:51:00 -0700

Adjective:

Transmitting Light; Able to be seen through with clarity

(Usage: Crystal clear skies)

2. (of Language) transparently clear; easily understandable
(Usage: A crystal clear explanation)

Synonyms:

Crystalline
Limpid
Lucid
Luculent
Pellucid
Perspicious
Transparent

Veer

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:08:00 -0700

Verb:

1. Turn sharply; change direction abruptly
(Usage: The motorbike veered to the right)
2. Shift to a clockwise direction
(Usage: The wind veered)

Synonyms:

Curve
Cut
Sheer
Slew
Slue
Swerve
Trend

Unmixed

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:06:00 -0700

Adjective:

1. Not mixed with extraneous elements
(Usage: Not an unmixed blessing)

2. Not constituting a compound

Synonyms:

Plain
Sheer
Uncompounded
Unmingled

Unmingled

noreply@blogger.com (Ramit) — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:05:00 -0700

Adjective:

Not mixed with extraneous elements

Synonyms:

Plain
Sheer
Unmixed