**Vocabulary Words - 25.04.2015**

**Vocabulary Words - 25.04.2015**

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►-TURGID (VERB): inflated, overblown, or pompous

Synonyms: crying, weepy Antonyms: quiet, simple

Example Sentence:

The canvas was much too broad and turgid, the details too numerous and complex.

►-LACHRYMOSE (ADJECTIVE): suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful

Synonyms: pleasing, harmonic Antonyms: cheerful

Example Sentence:

The first half of the film plays for laughs, while the second half evolves into a lachrymose soap opera.

►-WELTER (NOUN): a confused mass, commotion

Synonyms: confusion, turmoil Antonyms: order, peace

Example Sentence:

The inevitable consequence will be a welter of bad loans.

►-OSSIFY (VERB): become hard from aging

Synonyms: harden, congeal Antonyms: soften, melt

Example Sentence:

Each of the lateral parts begins to ossify from a single center during the eighth week of fatal life.

►-DISCOMFIT (VERB): defeat, frustrate; confuse

Synonyms: perplex, vex Antonyms: comfort, soothe

Example Sentence:

And worse yet, he felt a strange shiver of discomfit at Cynthia's odd reaction to Jerome Shipton's death.

►-ARBITRARY (ADJECTIVE): something decided by impulse or chance

Synonyms: Random, Uncontrolled Antonyms: Reasoned, Sound

Example Sentence:

The shop was an arbitrary choice; it was the first one we crossed.

►-CAVEAT (ADJECTIVE): a warning or caution given

Synonyms: Forewarning, Admonition Antonyms: pamper, linient

Example Sentence:

Her father gave her a final caveat before sending her on the trip.

►-DIDACTIC (ADJECTIVE): something that is instructional or was intended to be instructional

Synonyms: Moralizing, Instructive Antonyms: boring, uneducational

Example Sentence:

The textbook was didactic without being completely boring.

►-ELUSIVE (ADJECTIVE) : something that is difficult to define or comprehend

Synonyms: evasive, mysterious Antonyms: understandable, definite

Example Sentence:

Many find the subject elusive in the extreme and thus it has the lowest attendance rate.

►-IRONY (NOUN) : sarcasm

Synonyms: Paradox, Derision Antonyms: Consideration, Deference

Example Sentence: