Word * | Part of Speech | Definition | Audio Available? |
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austere | Adjective | Grim or severe in manner or appearance; stern; strict | Yes |
austere | Adjective | Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy | Yes |
revere | Verb | To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion | Yes |
revere | Verb | To venerate someone or something as an idol | Yes |
awry | Adverb | sideways, crookedly; askew | Yes |
awry | Adverb | Perversely, improperly | Yes |
awry | Adjective | Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place | Yes |
awry | Adjective | Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss | Yes |
beguile | Verb | To deceive or delude | Yes |
beguile | Verb | To charm, delight, or captivate | Yes |
deprive | Verb | To take something away; deny someone of something | Yes |
decrease | Noun | An amount by which a quantity is decreased | Yes |
decrease | Verb | To become smaller | Yes |
decrease | Verb | To make smaller | Yes |
increase | Verb | To become large | Yes |
increase | Verb | To make larger | Yes |
increase | Noun | An amount by which a quantity is increased | Yes |
increase | Noun | For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger | Yes |
repeal | Verb | To cancel | Yes |
describe | Verb | To represent in words | Yes |
describe | Verb | To give rise to a geometrical structure: | Yes |
despise | Verb | To regard with contempt or scorn: | Yes |
prescribe | Verb | To order a drug or medical device for use by a particular patient | Yes |
prescribe | Verb | To specify as a required procedure or ritual | Yes |
decline | Noun | Downward movement, fall | Yes |
decline | Noun | A sloping downward, for example, of a hill or road | Yes |
decline | Noun | A weakening | Yes |
decline | Verb | To move downwards, to fall, to drop | Yes |
decline | Verb | To become weaker or worse | Yes |
decline | Verb | To refuse | Yes |
Vocabulary Word Activities
- Use the word in an original sentence.
- Find and learn the definition of the word.
- Know how to pronounce the word.
- Which parts of speech is the word used as (e.g. noun, verb)?
- What are other forms of the word such as plurals or tenses.
- What are synonyms of the word?
- What are antonyms of the word?
- What is the origin or etymology of the word?
- What words rhyme with this word?
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