English Vocabulary

• Conquer (Verb):
1. Meaning:
1. To put down by force or authority (e.g. "conquer one's desires")
2. Take possession of by force, as after an invasion
3. Overcome by conquest (e.g. "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country")
2. Synonyms:
1. Appropriate
2. Capture
3. Curb
4. Inhibit
5. Seize
• Laden:
1. Meaning:
1. (Adjective)Filled with a great quantity (e.g. "table laden with food")
2. Burdened psychologically or mentally (e.g. "laden with grief")
3. (Verb) Remove with or as if with a ladle
4. Fill or place a load on
2. Synonyms:
1. Ladle
2. Load
3. Load Up
4. Loaded
5. Oppressed
• Garland:
1. Meaning:
1. (Verb)Adorn with bands of flowers or leaves (e.g. "They garlanded the statue")
2. (Noun)An anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
2. Synonyms:
1. Chaplet
2. Coronal
3. Florilegium
4. Wreath
• Scarlet:
1. Meaning:
1. (Adjective)Of a colour at the end of the colour spectrum (next to orange); resembling the colour of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
2. (Noun)A variable colour that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge
2. Synonyms:
1. Blood-red
2. Carmine
3. Cerise
4. Cherry
5. Crimson
6. Red
7. Vermilion
• Hibiscus (Noun):
1. Meaning:
1. Any plant of the genus Hibiscus
2. Synonyms:
1. Mallow
• Anointed(Verb):
1. Meaning:
1. Choose by or as if by divine intervention (e.g. "She was anointed the head of the Christian fundamentalist group")
2. Administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
2. Synonyms:
1. Embrocated
2. Inuncted
3. Oiled
• Jester(Noun):
1. Meaning:
1. A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
2. Synonyms:
1. Fool
2. Motley Fool
• Spied:
1. Meaning:
1. Catch sight of
2. Watch, observe, or inquire secretly
3. Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
4. Secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage (e.g. "spy for the Russians")
2. Synonyms:
1. Descried
2. Espied
3. Sighted
4. Sleuthed
5. Snooped
6. Spotted
7. Stagged
• Puffed:
1. Meaning:
1. (Adjective)Gathered for protruding fullness
2. (Verb)Puff: Smoke and exhale strongly (e.g. "puff a cigar")
3. Suck in or take (air)
4. Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
5. Make proud or conceited (e.g. "The sudden fame puffed her ego")
2. Synonyms:
1. Blew Up
2. Chuffed
3. Dragged
4. Drew
5. Gasped
6. Heaved
7. Huffed
8. Panted
• Furious(Adjective):
1. Meaning:
1. Marked by extreme and violent energy (e.g. "a furious battle")
2. Marked by extreme anger (e.g. "furious about the accident"; "a furious scowl")
3. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger (e.g. "furious winds")
2. Synonyms:
1. Angered
2. Angry
3. Enraged
4. Ferocious
5. Fierce
6. Infuriated
7. Maddened
8. Raging
9. Tempestuous
10. Wild
• Immersed(Verb):
1. Meaning:
1. Thrust or throw into (e.g. "Immerse yourself in hot water")
2. Devote (oneself) fully to (e.g. "He immersed himself into his studies")
3. Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
4. Cause to be immersed
2. Synonyms:
1. Absorbed
2. Ate Up
3. Buried
4. Engrossed
5. Engulfed
6. Plunged
7. Soaked Up
8. Steeped
9. Swallowed
10. Swallowed Up
• Cane:
1. Meaning:
1. (Noun)A stick that people can lean on to help them walk
2. A strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
3. A stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
4. (Verb)Beat with a cane
2. Synonyms:
1. Flog
2. Lambast
3. Lambaste
• Naive(Adjective: naive, naiver, naivest):
1. Meaning:
1. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience (e.g. "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances")
2. Of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
3. Inexperienced
4. Lacking information or instruction
5. Not initiated; deficient in relevant experience (e.g. "he took part in the experiment as a naive subject")
2. Synonyms:
1. Naif
2. Primitive
3. Unenlightened
4. Uninitiate
5. Uninstructed
• Bowed:
1. Meaning:
1. (Adjective) Of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
2. Forming or resembling an arch
3. Have legs that curve outward at the knees
4. (Verb) Bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head (e.g. "He bowed before the King"; "She bowed her head in shame")
5. Yield to another's wish or opinion (e.g. "The government bowed to the military pressure")
2. Synonyms:
1. Acceded
2. Arced
3. Arciform
4. Arcuate
5. Bandy
6. Crouched
7. Deferred
• Eased:
1. Meaning:
1. (Adjective)(of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear
2. (Verb)Ease: Move gently or carefully (e.g. "He eased himself into the chair")
3. Lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate (e.g. "ease the pain in your legs")
4. Make easier
5. Lessen the intensity of or calm (e.g. "The news eased my conscience")
2. Synonyms:
1. Allayed
2. Alleviated
3. Comforted
4. Facilitated
5. Relieved
6. Stilled