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Animadversion
Noun
Meaning:
A critical and usually censorious remark; adverse criticism
Usage:
When Nick was caught cheating, he had to endure an animadversion from the talkative principal
Endure
Verb
Meaning:
To suffer patiently; bear; suffer; tolerate
Usage:
He endured for five years as the prisoner of war
Faultfinding
Noun
Meaning:
Petty, nagging or unreasonable criticism; critical, captious,
carping, overcritical, rejective
Usage:
According to the national daily, there were a slew of faultfinding
committees
Slew
Noun
Meaning:
A large number; boatload; oodles; carload; shipload;
truckload
Usage:
V. S Naipaul has written a slew of books
Bathetic
Adjective
Meaning:
Characterized by triteness (not fresh or original- hackneyed) or sentimentalism; characterized by bathos (bathos= if something starts out serious and then turns trivial that’s bathos); describes something that’s overly sentimental, gushy
Usage:
Soap operas are known for their bathetic emotionalism, because the
characters cry and wail and scheme over the silliest things
Soap-opera
Meaning:
A television or radio drama serial that deals with DAILY EVENTS in the
lives of the same group of characters
Meshuggener
Noun
Meaning:
A foolish, mad or crazy person
Usage:
They considered the person to be a meshuggener and locked him
during the event