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Daily English Vocabulary
Panoply
Noun
Meaning – An extensive or impressive collection, a full suit of armor, ceremonial attire
Usage – Media waited for the politician with a panoply of questions. Knights in panoply were ready for battle.
Synonyms – array, range, collection.
Flagitious
Adjective
Meaning – criminal, villainous
Usage – As a policeman, it’s up to you to bring the flagitious outlaws to justice.
Synonyms – evil, sinful, iniquitous
Antonyms – pious, virtuous
Jejune
Adjective
Meaning –
1. Naive, simplistic, and superficial
2. (of ideas or writings) dry and uninteresting.
Usage – The reporter circulated out rightly false and jejune information that the company was closing down in two months.
Synonyms – childish, puerile, dull
Antonyms – mature, engrossing
Pulchritude
Noun
Meaning – Beauty
Usage – Her pulchritude overwhelms most of the men she comes across.
Synonyms – attractiveness, allure
Antonyms – ugliness
Ratiocination
Noun
Meaning – the thought processes that have been established as leading to valid solutions to problems.
Usage – Sherlock Holmes used his ratiocination to determine the culprit’s identity.
Synonyms – intellectual, logic, reasoning, sense
Antonyms – incoherence, absurdity, irrationality.