Essentials Vocabulary - Week 16
embellish: Meaning
[em-BEL-ish) Verb To beautify by adding decorative details or features. ●
Usage ●
The cake is embellished with colourful candies and tasty marshmallows. Do not embellish your speech too much, as it can get boring.
Synonyms
adorn, bedeck, embroider, overstate
Antonyms
decrease, harm, lessen, reduce
embezzle:
[em-BEZ-uh I) Verb
Meaning
Usage
To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, such as money or property entrusted to one's care. ● ●
They found out about the plan to embezzle the company funds. The thieves embezzled a large amount of money.
Synonyms
steal, filch, appropriate, loot, pilfer
Antonyms
give, receive
empathetic: Meaning Usage
[em-puh-THET-ik) Adjective Identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of others. ● ●
Mary is empathetic to the situation of the victims of the disaster. The children like talking to the empathetic counsellor.
Synonyms
understanding, compassionate, sensitive
Antonyms
indifferent, merciless
encrypt:
[en-KRIPT) Verb
Meaning
To encipher or encode.
Usage
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Make sure that your files are encrypted before transferring them. This software will encrypt your messages before sending them.
Synonyms
encode, encipher
Antonyms
decipher, decode
endorse:
[en-DAWRS) Verb
Meaning
To approve, support, or sustain.
Usage
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This bakery must be good for it to be endorsed by a celebrity. The report was endorsed by the college.
Synonyms
support, authorize, advocate, affirm, approve
Antonyms
attack, censure, criticize, deny
enduring:
[en-DOOR-ing] Adjective
Meaning
To be lasting or permanent. ●
Usage
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His work has an enduring effect on people which makes him memorable. The successful businessman formed enduring relationships with his customers.
Synonyms
lasting, abiding, permanent
Antonyms
temporary
engender: Meaning
Usage
[en-JEN-der] Verb To produce, cause, or give rise to. ● ●
A heart full of hate engenders prejudice and inspires violence. The restaurant is giving away free dessert to engender interest from potential customers.
Synonyms
cause, arouse, beget, breed, foment
Antonyms
calm, destroy, discourage
engulfed:
[en-GUHLF-ed] Verb
Meaning
To swallow up; To surround completely. To plunge or immerse. ●
Usage ●
The disastrous tsunami engulfed many villages and towns in its path. There's an upcoming test, so he engulfed himself in studies.
Synonyms
absorbed, overwhelmed, buried, consumed, encompassed
Antonyms
dried, neglected
enmity:
[EN-mi-tee] Noun
Meaning
A feeling or condition of hostility.
Usage
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The competing teams showed enmity towards one another. Enmity is easily solved by open communication and compromise.
Synonyms
hatred, animosity, acrimony, alienation, animus
Antonyms
approval, friendliness, friendship
ensuing:
[en-SOO-ing] Adjective
Meaning
An event or activity that happens after something else, often as a result of it. ●
Usage
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They tried a risky solution which was the cause of the ensuing problems the next day. The storm was terrifying, and the ensuing wreckage took months to clear.
Synonyms
resultant, coming, consequent, subsequent
Antonyms
antecedent, preceding
enthralling: Meaning Usage
[en-THRAWL-ing] Adjective Holding one's attention completely. ● ●
The enthralling performance earned a standing ovation. She was quite an enthralling conversationalist.
Synonyms
absorbing, captivating, engrossing, fascinating, gripping
Antonyms
boring, repulsive, uninteresting
enthusiastic: [en-thoo-zee-AS-tik] Adjective Meaning Usage
Full of or characterized by interest or excitement. ● ●
He is very enthusiastic about his new job. An enthusiastic child showed interest in participating in class.
Synonyms
interested, excited, ardent, avid, eager
Antonyms
apathetic, cold, cool, disinterested, dispassionate