restive [ RES-tiv ]
[adjective]
MEANING:
- unruly, uneasy or impatient
- balky or refusing to budge
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
The restive class gave the teacher a headache.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2:
However, journalists will still not be allowed to travel to the restive region of Tibet and other restricted areas without getting special permission from local authorities, Liu said.
vindictive [ vin-DIK-tiv ]
[adjective]
MEANING:
- vengeful or inclined to exact revenge
- spiteful or intended to hurt
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
The vindictive woman avenged her defeat in the contest by murdering the victor.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2:
In both cases, Serbia was treated, with vindictive disdain, as an untrustworthy, disruptive and fundamentally illegitimate entity.
misogamy [ mi-SOG-uh’-mee ]
[noun]
MEANING:
- hatred of marriage
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
His misogamy resulted from the unpleasantness of the broken marriage of his parents.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2:
The heightened level of misogamy has also been expressed by the journalists newspaper, pointing out that “the viewpoint of coarse and crude male domination —constantly minimizing the conscience of the feminine sex— that oozes from (reggae ton) lyrics, is simply degrading”.
quicksilver [ KWIK-sil-ver ]
[noun,adjective,transitive verb]
MEANING:
- (n.) mercury (a poisonous metallic element)
- (tr. v.) to amalgamate a metal with mercury
- (adj.) unpredictable
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
The wicked witch tried to poison the prince by enticing him with exotic sweets in which she had mixed a measure of quicksilver.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2:
She was told, that her beloved husband to be, so anxious to be worthy of her love, drank a potion of quicksilver and sulphur, the elixir of life and eternal youth, and expired.
commandeer [ kom-uh’n-DEER ]
[transitive verb]
MEANING:
- to force into active military service
- to seize private property for military use
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
They were unhappy at having been commandeered and said that they believed in non-violence like Mahatma Gandhi.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2:
Iraq admits that its officials commandeered 10 Bombardier jets in 1990 but claims that four of the aircraft were destroyed at Mosul Airport in Western bombing raids, while the remaining six were returned to Kuwait via Iran.
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