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Negative Prefixes
Idioms
Guessing Meaning
Synonyms and Antonyms
Parts of Speech
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Negative prefix for desirable
Undesirable
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What means "To cross one's fingers (for someone)"
Meaning: To wish someone good luck
100
Guess the meaning from unwavering in the next context: When planning my career, I ignored my peers' unwavering concern with the amount of money a job would pay and tuned in instead to the temporal lifestyle it offered.
driven, persistent
100
Synonym for compulsory and abolish in: "We should abolish compulsory school attendance"
abolish: abate, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, destroy, disestablish, dissolve, end, eradicate, erase, expunge, extinguish, extirpate, finish, inhibit, invalidate, kill, negate, nix, nullify, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, prohibit, put an end to, put kibosh on, put the kibosh on, quash, repeal, repudiate, rescind, revoke, scrub, set aside, squelch, stamp out, subvert, supersede, suppress, terminate, undo, vacate, vitiate, void, wipe out, zap compulsory: acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, critical, crucial, crying, essential, exigent, immediate, important, importunate, indispensable, inescapable, insistent, instant, no turning back, obligatory, pressing, urgent, vital
100
Adverb for brilliant
brilliantly
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Negative Prefix for the words: - mature - patient
- immature - impatient
200
What means "To bang one's head against the wall"
Meaning: Waste time on a hopeless activity
200
Guess the meaning for the phrase "a piece of cake" in this context. From my past travel experiences, I anticipated difficulties with such issues as the language, my privacy, and standards of cleanliness. But these turned out to be a piece of cake compared to the distress that Brazilians' ideas of time and punctuality were to cause me.
easy
200
Synonym for "trivial" in the next context: The child learns to live in daze, saving his energies for those small parts of his life that are too trivial for the adults to bother with.
unimportant, little, insignificant
200
Adjective for response
responsive
300
Negative prefix for the words: - specified - emotional - European (They can be different prefixes)
- unspecified - unemotional or nonemotional - un-European or non-European
300
What means "to pull someone's leg" Make a sentence using that phrase.
Meaning: To play a joke on someone by saying something that is not true. Example: I pulled his leg by telling him the exam was today!
300
What's the meaning for "shuffling" in this context: Back home in California, I never need to look at a clock to know when the class hour is ending. The shuffling of books is accompanied by strained expressions screaming: "I'm hungry/ I'm thirsty/ I've got to go to the bathroom/ I'm going to suffocate if you keep us one more second."
falsehood, double-dealing
300
Antonym for innate in this context: The IQ score, developed early in the twentieth century, is supposed to be a measure of a person's innate intelligence.
inborn, innate, inheritable
300
Noun for tactfully
tact
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Negative Prefix for the words: - adequately - respectul - reverence - associated
- inadequately - disrespectful - irreverence - disassociated or unassociated
400
Idiom that refers to something that you know very well, but cannot recall at that moment.
"on the tip of the tongue" Example: I know her name! It’s just on the tip of my tongue.
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What's the meaning for "intertwined" in the context: The reason the Brazilians' rules of punctuality so confused me, it soon became apparent, was that they are inseparably intertwined with cultural values. And when we enter the web of culture, answers come neither simply nor cleanly.
To join or become joined by twining together. Twist together
400
Antonym for "hold off" in this context: Eat one now, or hold off and get twice the reward
hold out, withstand, stand firm
400
Adverb for diversion
Divertingly
500
Negative Prefix for the words: - belief - decisive - human - appealing - considerate - behave
- disbelief - indecisive - inhuman - unappealing - inconsiderate - misbehave
500
A very popular idiom that refers to keep a secret; also an indication of ones complicity in some plot.
to have your lips sealed Example: I promise I won't tell anyone, I have my lips sealed.
500
What's the meaning for "volatile" in this context: Cultural beliefs are like the air we breathe, so taken for granted that they are rearely discussed or even articulated. But there is often a volatile reaction when these unwritten rules are violated.
delicate or fragile
500
Antonym for "toppling" in this context: Goleman and Gardener are toppling educational traditions, stretching our understanding of what schools are about.
Definition: fall or knock over; overthrow Antonym: place, put, straighten
500
Adjective for knowledge
Knowleadgeably