Name That Word
Word that means evil or wanting to cause harm.
What is malevolent?
Use serrated in a sentence.
Ex: The serrated knife allows her to saw through a pot roast easily.
Ex: The claws on that monster were jagged and serrated.
Serrated: saw-like, toothed, jagged
Definition of a tryst.
What is "a secret meeting, often between lovers"?
Synonym for blatant.
What is (obvious, flagrant, glaring, open, undisguised, unconcealed, transparent...)?
Antonym for elation.
Word that means chains that go around ankles or wrists.
What is manacles?
Use "luminous" in a sentence.
Ex: The candles in the church were luminous.
Ex: Her face was luminous with great joy.
Luminous: glowing with light (also used as a metaphor for shining with positive emotions)
Definition of dessicated.
What is "dried up"?
Synonym for fetid.
What is (stinky, smelly, reeking, pungent, acrid, rank, foul...)?
Antonym for tenacity.
What is (hesitation, fearfulness, timidity, trepidation, weakness...)?
Word that refers to the pattern of a person's walk.
What is gait?
Use "tributary" in a sentence.
The tributary ran alongside the meadow until it fed into a river at the bottom of the hillside.
Tributary: a smaller stream or river that feeds into a larger one
Definition of cacophony.
What is "a mixture of loud, clashing sounds"?
Synonym for nonchalant.
Antonym for crescendo.
What is (decrescendo, diminish, weaken, dwindle, ease, fall...)?
Word for "bold disrespect".
What is audacity?
Use burnished in a sentence.
Ex: Her hair was the color of burnished copper.
Burnished: shiny or polished (such as metal that is polished by rubbing)
Definition of malleable.
What is "able to be bent without breaking"?
Synonym for sully.
What is (stain, soil, defile, taint, blemish, befoul, displace, pollute, contaminate...)?
Antonym for contravenes.
What is (agrees, follows, complies, obeys, conforms...)?
Name of a gourd with many uses in indigenous African culture.
What is a calabash?
Use harbinger in a sentence.
Ex: Crocus and hellebore are harbingers of spring; their early blooms often peek through a layer of snow.
Harbinger: a sign that something or someone else is coming, or near
Definition of permeates.
What is "spreads throughout"?
Synonym for vermilion.
What is (red, scarlet...)?
Antonym for palpable.
What is (intangible, virtual, abstract, formless, unsubstantial, immaterial, nonphysical...)?