Wordmaster G6 Gold List#2

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Barricade-noun

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Definition:
1. An obstruction or rampart thrown up across a way or passage to check the advance of the enemy
2. Barrier, obstacle
3. Plural: a field of combat or dispute

Example:
1. The enemy broke through the barricade.
2. Police erected barricades to keep the crowds from approaching the crime scene.

Synonyms:
Barricade, fence, hedge, wall

Near Antonyms:
Door, doorway, entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway, gate, portal; break, gap, pass

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Barricade-verb

Back 2

Definition:
1. To block off or stop up with
2. To prevent access to by means of

Example:
1. The police barricaded the crime scene.
2. The city barricaded the flooded streets.

Synonyms:
Bar, close (off), blockade, block (off), guard, wall (off)

Antonyms:
Open, unbar

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Entice-verb
Enticement (noun)
Enticingly (adv)

Back 3

Definition:
1. To attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hopes or desire
2. Tempt
Example:
Every commercial seemed to be for some tempting snack specifically designed to entice me from my diet.

Synonyms:
Allure, bait, beguile, betray, decoy, lure, lead on, seduce, solicit, tempt

Near Antonyms:
Alert, caution, forewarn, ward (off), warn; drive (away or off), repulse, turn away

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Surreptitious - adjective
Surreptitiousness (noun)
Surresptitiously (adv)

Back 4

Definition:
Done, made, or acquired in secret

Example:
1. She had a surreptitious relationship with her employee.
2. A private investigator adept at taking surreptitious pictures of adulterous couples.

Synonyms:
Backstairs, behind-the-scenes, clandestine, covert, furtive, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, private, privy, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, stealth, stealthy, secret, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded

Antonyms:
Open, overt, public

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Genesis - noun

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Definition:
The origin or coming into being of something.

Example:
A book about the genesis of the civil rights movement was present at the meeting, which was later considered the genesis of the new political movement.

Synonyms:
Alpha, baseline, birth, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go (also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, threshold

Antonyms:
Close, conclusion, end, ending, omega

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Repel - verb
Repeller (noun)

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Definition:
1 a: to drive back <repel the enemy>
B: to fight against: RESIST
2. To refuse to accept: REJECT <repel a suggestion>
3 a: to be incapable of sticking to, mixing with, taking up, or holding <a fabric that repels water>
B: to force away or apart or tend to do so by mutual action at a distance <two like electrical charges repel each other>
4. DISGUST <a sight that repelled everyone>

Example:
1. A fabric that repels water
2. Their superior forces repelled the invasion.
3. Two positive electrical charges repel each other.
4. Magnets can both repel and attract one another.

Synonyms:
Beat off, fend (off), rebut, repulse, stave off, turn away, and turn back

Antonyms:
Bow (to), capitulate (to), give in (to), knuckle under (to), stoop (to), submit (to), succumb (to), surrender (to), yield (to)

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Verbal- adj.

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Definition:
1. Of, relating to, or consisting of words <verbal instructions>
2. Of, relating to, or formed from a verb <a verbal adjective>
3. Spoken rather than written <a verbal agreement>

Example:
1. He scored well on the verbal section of the test.
2. They had a verbal exchange.
3. A verbal agreement to finish the work
4. We gave only verbal instructions.

Synonyms:
Lexical, linguistic (also linguistical), rhetorical (also rhetoric), vocabular, wordy

Antonyms:
Nonlexical, nonlinguistic, nonverbal

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Pageantry-noun

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Definition:
1. Pageants and the presentation of pageants
2. Splendid display

Example:
I like the tradition and pageantry that come with graduations.

Synonyms:
Affectation, array, ceremonial, ceremony, extravagance, fanfare, flourish, formality, glitter, grandeur, grandiosity, magnificence, ostentation, pageant, panoply, parade, pomp, pomposity, show, spectacle, splash, splendor

Antonyms:
Diffidence, modesty, quietness, reserve, retirement, shrinking, timidity, unobtrusiveness

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Ensue-verb

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Definition:
To come at a later time or as a result: FOLLOW <ensuing effects>

Example:
1. If you drive slowly in the left lane of the freeway, chaos will ensue.
2.If you jump off a cliff with no protection, you will probably ensue some injuries.

Synonyms:
Prove, turn out, turn up, result

Antonyms:
Indirect (VIA succeeding) -> preceding

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Primitive - adj.
primitively (adv)
Primitiveness (noun)

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Definition:
1 a: of or relating to the earliest age or period <primitive forests> <the primitive church>
B: closely resembling an ancient ancestor <a primitive fish>
2. Belonging to or characteristic of an early stage of development <primitive tools>
3. Of or relating to a people or culture that lacks a written language and advanced technologies <primitive societies>
4. Being or made by a self-taught artist

Example:
1. The time when primitive man first learned to use fire
2. The technology they used was primitive and outdated.
3. The camp had only a primitive outdoor toilet.

Synonyms:
Crude, low, rude, rudimentary
Antonyms:
Advanced, developed, evolved, high, higher, late

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Primitive - noun

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Definition:
1. A: something primitive; specifically: a primitive idea, term, or proposition
B: a root word
2. A (1): an artist of an early period of a culture or artistic movement (2): a later imitator or follower of such an artist
B (1): a self-taught artist (2): an artist whose work is marked by directness and naïveté
C: a work of art produced by a primitive artist
D: a typically rough or simple usually handmade and antique home accessory or furnishing
3a: a member of a primitive people
B: an unsophisticated person

Example:
The museum is known for its collection of American primitives.

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Decoy - noun

Back 12

Definitions:
1: something intended to lure into a trap; especially: an artificial bird used to attract live birds within shooting range
2: a person used to lead another into a trap

Example:
1. He had a decoy distract the guard while he jumped over the fence.
2. We set the decoy afloat in the marsh and from the blind waited for the ducks to arrive.

Synonyms:
Bait, lure
Near Antonyms:
Repellent

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Decoy - verb

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Definition:
To lure by or as if by a decoy - entice

Example:
Tacky souvenir shops to which first-time tourists had been decoyed into spending their hard-earned money.

Synonyms:
Allure, bait, beguile, betray, lure, entice, lead on, seduce, solicit, tempt

Near Antonyms:
Alert, caution, forewarn, ward (off), warn; drive (away or off), repulse, turn away

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Intrude - verb
Intruder (noun)

Back 14

Definitions:
1: to bring or force in unasked
2: to come or go in without invitation

Examples:
1. Excuse me, sir. I don't mean to intrude, but you have a phone call.
2. Would I be intruding if I came along with you?
3. The plane intruded into their airspace.
4. Reporters constantly intruded into the couple's private life.
5. He didn't want to intrude upon their conversation.

Synonyms:
Break in, chime in, chip in [chiefly British], cut in, interpose, interrupt

Near Antonyms:
Avoid, eschew, shun; disregard, ignore, neglect, overlook

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Serene - adj.
Sereneness (noun)
Serenely (adv)

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Definitions:
1: showing complete calm
2 a: clear and free of storms <serene skies>
B: shining bright and steady

Examples:
A serene woman who was everyone's source of support

Synonyms:
Arcadian, calm, hushed, peaceful, placid, restful, quiet, still, stilly, tranquil
Antonyms:
Boisterous, clamorous, clattery, deafening, loud, noisy, raucous, rip-roaring, roistering, romping, rowdy, tumultuous, unquiet, uproarious, woolly

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Serene - noun

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Definitions:
1. Archaic: a serene condition or expanse (as of sky, sea, or light)
2. Archaic: serenity, tranquility