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philanthropy
the act of donating money or time to promote human welfare
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tantamount
being essentially equal to something
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lousiness
the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
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discrimination
unfair treatment of a person or group based on prejudice
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pedagogy
the profession of a teacher
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bias
a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
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i
the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet
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xenophobia
a fear of foreigners or strangers
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neophobia
a morbid fear of novelty
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karma
effects of one’s actions that determine his or her destiny
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Phalguna
the twelfth month of the Hindu calendar
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hipped roof
a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides
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die
lose all bodily functions necessary to sustain life
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Dicentra cucullaria
delicate spring-flowering plant of the eastern United States having white flowers with double spurs
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bulwark
an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
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Paiwanic
a Formosan language
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misopedia
hatred of children
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Euphoric:
Adjective
Meaning: A feeling of intense excitement and happiness.
Example Sentence: As soon as the countdown to the New Year Party began Amita and her friends were euphoric.
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December 30:
Abstruse:
Adjective
Meaning: Something that is complex and difficult to understand.
Example Sentence: Because I am not a computer programmer, I find most of the programming languages abstruse.
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December 29:
Acclimate:
Verb
Meaning: Adjust to the changes in climate or environment; adapt to a new place or different conditions.
Example Sentence: Since James grew up in Florida, he doubted if he would ever acclimate to New York’s weather conditions.
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December 28:
Epicure:
Noun
Meaning: A person who enjoys fine food and drink.
Example Sentence: Since Pamela is an epicure, she refuses to consume any dish that is not prepared by a gourmet chef.
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December 27:
Elucidate:
Verb
Meaning: Explain something clearly and easily so as to avoid ambiguity and confusion.
Example Sentence: In order to make the students understand the concepts properly, the teacher tried to elucidate some real-life examples.
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December 26:
Primp:
Verb
Meaning: Spending time in front of the mirror improving one’s appearances or looks.
Example Sentence: Before Jane’s date, she stood in front of the mirror primping her looks.
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December 25:
Impetus
Noun
Meaning: Something that facilitates an activity or makes that activity more efficient or effective.
Example Sentence: The announcement of government support in research, marketing and finance to the budding entrepreneurs gave new impetus to entrepreneurship in the nation.
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December 24:
Inveterate
Adjective
Meaning: A habit or interest that is firmly established and difficult to change.
Example Sentence: Emma is an inveterate reader who always has a book in her hands.
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December 23:
Accede:
Verb
Meaning: Agree to a request or demand; to express approval or acceptance.
Example Sentence: Because the management wants to avoid strikes and lockouts, they decided to accede with worker’s demands.
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December 22:
Euphoria
Noun
Meaning: A feeling of extreme excitement and happiness
Example Sentence: Ken was in a state of Euphoria when Samantha agreed to marry him.
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December 21:
Smug:
Adjective
Meaning: Showing excessive pride in one’s own achievements.
Example Sentence: Sam has been feeling smug ever since he won the sports championship.
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December 20:
Ebullience:
Noun
Meaning: A state of enthusiastic and energetic happiness.
Example Sentence: At the birthday party, the ebullience of the cute little kids could be heard through their laughs and giggles.
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December 19:
Resilience:
Noun
Meaning: Ability of a person to recover quickly from difficulties; ability to bounce back.
Example Sentence: Ken demonstrated great courage and resilience in fighting back from a losing position to winning the game.
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December 18:
Espouse:
Verb
Meaning: Support an idea, cause or principle; adopt a particular way of life.
Example Sentence: Although the reviews were rather harsh, Sam had the grace to espouse the criticism and work hard to improve his performance.
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December 17:
Sybaritic:
Adjective
Meaning: A liking for sensual luxurious life; Self-indulgent and pleasure-seeking nature.
Example Sentence: Because of his sybaritic lifestyle, the wealthy man was known as an extravagant and self-indulgent person.
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December 16:
Camaraderie:
Noun
Meaning: A feeling of trust and friendship among the people who work together as a group.
Example Sentence: Because of the camaraderie, the group shared, they were able to achieve the targets in time.
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December 15:
Calibre:
Noun
Meaning: A standard of a person’s ability or level of intelligence.
Example Sentence: Sam was impressed with the high calibre of the candidate and recruited him as an executive.
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December 14:
Ergonomic
Adjective
Meaning: A design that is comfortable and effective.
Example Sentence: Customers usually prefer products that are low priced and highly ergonomic.
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December 13:
Eccentric
Adjective
Meaning: Behavior that is unusual, abnormal or strange.
Example Sentence: Sam gets trolled frequently for eccentric posts and tweets on social media.
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December 12:
Splendiferous:
Adjective
Meaning: Beautiful and grand; Special and Impressive.
Example Sentence: After winning the lottery, Samantha bought splendiferous furniture and antiques to decorate her new home.
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December 11:
Prodigious:
Adjective
Meaning: Something that is impressive, large in size or degree.
Example Sentence: Samantha’s talent is quite prodigious and the judges are looking forward to seeing her perform at the finale.
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December 10:
Seductive:
Adjective
Meaning: Alluring, tempting; sensuous and attractive.
Example Sentence: Seductive plates full of cupcakes and pancakes were being served to the guests at the celebration.
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December 9:
Captivate:
Verb
Meaning: Attract, or hold the attention of someone usually through beauty, charm, etc.
Example Sentence: As the model walked the ramp, she seemed to captivate everyone in the audience.
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December 8:
Bankable:
Adjective
Meaning: Something that is likely to succeed or bring profits.
Example Sentence: Actors like Will Smith, Leonardo DiCaprio are the most bankable Hollywood stars.
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December 7:
Avocation:
Noun
Meaning: An activity that is usually pursued as a hobby when he/she is not working.
Example Sentence: Samantha excelled at the avocation of cooking and ultimately turned it into a career.
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December 6:
Prerequisite
Noun
Meaning: An essential or a prior condition for a certain thing; necessary condition.
Example Sentence: Citizenship is a prerequisite for voting during national elections.
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December 5:
Invigorate
Verb
Meaning: Energize; give strength and energy to someone.
Example Sentence: Practising meditation regularly will invigorate the mind and improve our focus.
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December 4:
Athletic
Adjective
Meaning: Physically fit and active, healthy, strong and sportive.
Example Sentence: Sandra has been awarded the scholarship purely on the basis of her athletic abilities.
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December 3:
Entice
Verb
Meaning: Persuading someone to do something by offering them some kind of pleasure or advantage.
Example Sentence: Advertising agencies create advertisements so as to entice people into buying new products and services.
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December 2:
Beatific
Adjective
Meaning: A feeling or expression of joy, bliss, and happiness.
Example Sentence: Jessica Alba looked angelic and wore a beatific smile as she walked down the red carpet.
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December 1:
Plaudits
Noun
Meaning: An expression of praise, appreciation or applause.
Example Sentence: Aaron’s new movie won him plaudits for his acting from critics.
Plaudits: An expression of praise, appreciation or applause.
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What It Means
Extricate means «to free or remove someone or something from an entanglement or difficulty.»
// Firefighters extricated the passengers from the wreckage.
// The wife of the accused hired an attorney to extricate herself from the allegations brought against her husband.
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«The skylight has been lifted off Toland Hall to create an opening large enough to extricate the panels by crane.» — Sam Whiting, The San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Aug. 2021
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Extricate is used for the act of freeing someone or something from a tangled situation. Its spelling and meaning comes from Latin extricatus, which combines the prefix ex- («out of») with the noun tricae, meaning «trifles or perplexities.» The resemblance of tricae to trick is no illusion—it’s an ancestor.
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[ mon-soon ]
[ mɒnˈsun ]
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noun
the season during which the southwest wind blows, commonly marked by heavy rains; rainy season.
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What is the origin of monsoon?
Monsoon “rainy season” is a borrowing by way of obsolete Dutch monssoen from Portuguese monção (earlier moução), and prior to Portuguese, the term arose as Arabic mawsim “season.” Mawsim is a noun formed from the verb wasama “to mark,” which comes from an ancient Semitic root meaning “to become fitting.” This root also appears in Sivan, a month of the Jewish calendar that tends to overlap with May and June. Sivan (Hebrew sīwān) is adapted from the Akkadian word for “season,” so the similarity between Sivan and English season is merely a happy coincidence. Monsoon was first recorded in English circa 1580.
how is monsoon used?
If you’ve never lived in or visited the U.S. Southwest, you might picture it as a desert that is always hot and dry. But this region experiences a monsoon in the late summer that produces thunderstorms and severe weather, much like India’s famous summer deluges …. This year’s monsoon is the third-wettest ever in Tucson, with 12.80 inches (325 millimeters) of rain.
Diana Zamora-Reyes and Christopher L. Castro, “Monsoons make deserts bloom in the US Southwest, but climate change is making these summer rainfalls more extreme and erratic,” Conversation, October 1, 2021
The Indian monsoon, a seasonal event that brings key moisture to an agricultural region where about 20 percent of the world’s population resides, is getting more extreme, researchers report …. The frequency and intensity of extreme events within the monsoon are important, as periods of intense rainfall can lead to floods, while periods of extreme dryness can lead to crop failures, particularly at certain growth states when crops are particularly vulnerable.
Stephanie Paige Ogburn, “Indian Monsoons Are Becoming More Extreme,” Scientific American, April 29, 2014
Word of the day
mano a mano
[ mah-noh uh mah-noh ]
[ ˈmɑ noʊ ə ˈmɑ noʊ ]
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noun
a direct confrontation or conflict; head-on competition; duel.
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What is the origin of mano a mano?
Mano a mano “a direct confrontation” is a loanword from Spanish, in which it means “hand to hand”—not “man to man,” per the common misconception. Spanish mano “hand” comes from Latin manus “hand,” which is also the source of a wide variety of English words, from manicure (“hand care”) and manuscript (“handwritten”) to maintain (“to hold with the hand”) and both maneuver and manure (“to work by hand”). Latin manus and Spanish mano are grammatically feminine nouns with masculine endings. This means that a “bad hand” in Latin is a manus mala (Spanish mano mala), with feminine mala agreeing only in grammatical gender with manus. In contrast, to use the masculine Latin noun lupus “wolf,” a “bad wolf” is a lupus malus (Spanish lobo malo), with masculine malus agreeing in gender and spelling with lupus. Mano a mano was first recorded in English in the early 1950s.
how is mano a mano used?
Let’s be clear, though: an air fryer would be flattened in a mano-a-mano with a real Fryalator and its big tub of hot oil. Few of us deep fry at home, though, as it involves that huge amount of hot oil which you have to deal with after dinner. So does air frying bring us close enough to the ideal to take the plunge?
Joe Ray, “Are Air Fryers Worth It?” Wired, May 10, 2018
This is a tale of two former bodybuilders, facing off in court—over a patent. And not just any patent: Based on federally funded research, this one has a pedigree that links back to one of the most prestigious universities in the world. And this kind of legal mano a mano raises questions about the role of universities in the patent system.
Laura Sydell, “Bodybuilders Beef Over A Workout Supplement—And A Stanford Patent,” NPR, July 8, 2016
Word of the day
adze
[ adz ]
[ ædz ]
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noun
an ax-like tool, for dressing timbers roughly, with a curved, chisel-like steel head mounted at a right angle to the wooden handle.
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What is the origin of adze?
Adze “an ax-like tool” dates back more than 1000 years to the days of Old English, when it was spelled adesa, but before then, its origins are unknown. Some linguists have noted the similarity between adze and ax (or axe), but the resemblance is flimsier in Old English, in which ax is spelled æx or æces, and cannot explain a sound change from x to des. Another loose hypothesis is that adze is related to, if not derived from, Latin ascia “axe” (compare French asse “pickax”), but it seems likelier instead that English ax and Latin ascia share a common, distant origin. One clue to the potential origin of adze may lie at the other end of Europe, specifically in Turkey, where the Hittite language was spoken over 3000 years ago. English and Hittite are both members of the Indo-European language family, which may explain why English adze looks a bit like Hittite atešša “ax.” Adze was first recorded in English before 900.
how is adze used?
They were the metaphorical pickup trucks of their day …. Dugout canoes were difficult to fashion into water-worthy vessels. All were made from a single tree trunk, fire coals placed atop it and then the charred wood was hollowed out with an adze or similar sharp-edged tool made of stone, sea shells and, eventually, metal.
“Ancient Canoe Exhibit Inspires Thousands at Chickasaw Cultural Center,” Indian Country Today, November 30, 2014
[A]n axe that is more than 9,000 years old, found at Ireland’s earliest burial site, in Co Limerick, has shed light on the ancient burial practices of our hunter-gatherer ancestors …. Microscopic analysis has revealed the shale tool, believed to be the earliest fully polished adze in Europe, was only used for a short time, and then deliberately blunted.
Fiona Gartland, “A 9,000-year-old axe sheds light on burial practices,” Irish Times, November 2, 2016
- acute
- intense
- severe
- utmost
- high
- maximum
- sovereign
- top
- ultimate
- uttermost
- consummate
- highest
- maximal
- supreme
- absolute
- dire
- drastic
- egregious
- exaggerated
- exceptional
- excessive
- extraordinary
- harsh
- irrational
- outrageous
- radical
- remarkable
- severe
- sheer
- unreasonable
- unusual
- utter
- desperate
- gross
- overkill
- stern
- downright
- extravagant
- fabulous
- fanatical
- flagrant
- immoderate
- improper
- imprudent
- inordinate
- intemperate
- nonsensical
- out-and-out
- out of proportion
- preposterous
- rabid
- rigid
- strict
- thorough
- unbending
- uncommon
- uncompromising
- unconventional
- unseemly
- zealous
- utmost
- final
- last
- terminal
- ultimate
- uttermost
- far-off
- farthest
- furthermost
- most distant
- outermost
- outmost
- remotest
- depth
- excess
- height
- acme
- apex
- apogee
- boundary
- ceiling
- climax
- consummation
- crest
- crown
- culmination
- edge
- end
- extremity
- maximum
- nadir
- peak
- pinnacle
- pole
- termination
- top
- utmost
- uttermost
- zenith
- bitter end
- inordinancy
- nth degree
On this page you’ll find 261 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to extreme, such as: acute, intense, severe, utmost, high, and maximum.
- calm
- common
- easy
- familiar
- good
- logical
- mild
- moderate
- nice
- normal
- ordinary
- pleasing
- reasonable
- regular
- sensible
- uncertain
- usual
- close
- limited
- near
- beginning
- first
- initial
- introductory
- opening
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- close
- limited
- mild
- moderate
- near
- base
- beginning
- bottom
- commencement
- inside
- interior
- minimum
- nadir
- opening
- start
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WORDS RELATED TO EXTREME
- bottomless
- boundless
- complete
- deep
- endless
- extreme
- illimitable
- incalculable
- infinite
- profound
- thorough
- unending
- unfathomable
- vast
- avant-garde
- breakthrough
- cutting-edge
- excellent
- exceptional
- extreme
- first
- foremost
- forward
- higher
- late
- leading
- leading-edge
- liberal
- precocious
- progressive
- radical
- state-of-the-art
- unconventional
- disturbing
- excruciating
- extreme
- fierce
- harrowing
- heart-wrenching
- intense
- racking
- struggling
- tearing
- tormenting
- tortuous
- torturing
- vehement
- violent
- awful
- desperate
- enormous
- excessive
- extreme
- great
- intense
- terrible
- deadly
- extreme
- intense
- lethal
- mortal
- mortiferous
- noxious
- pestilent
- pestilential
- terrible
- alto
- baritone
- bass
- booming
- contralto
- dark
- extreme
- full-toned
- grave
- great
- hard
- low
- low-pitched
- low-toned
- profound
- resonant
- rich
- sonorous
- strong
- vivid
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