How to use this set?
- Slide through the words in the first go and try to guess the meaning of the word.
- After the first cycle, flip to view the meanings of those words you do not know.
- Flip through the set again and try to remember the meanings/synonyms/antonyms you have just learnt.
- Repeat the cycle till you perfect it.
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Iridescent; lustrous; like an opal; n. Opalescence
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Bright, Pearly, Opaline, Polychromatic
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Monochromatic
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Medicine to induce sleep or deaden pain; something that relieves emotions or causes inaction; sleep-producing drug containing opium
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Narcotic, Tranquilizer, Hypnotic, Sedative
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Work (esp. Musical composition); ex. Magnum opus: masterpiece; cf. Opera
Synonyms:
Composition, Creation, Piece, Oeuvre
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Destruction, Ruin
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Of an oracle; prophetic; uttered as if with divine authority; mysterious or ambiguous; hard to understand; n. Oracle: wiser person; prophecy made by an oracle
Synonyms:
Ambiguous, Dogmatic, Foreboding, Prophetic
Antonyms:
Uncertain, Skeptical
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Wild drunken revelry; unrestrained indulgence in an activity; ex. Orgy of shopping
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Excess, Bout, Binge, Spree
Antonyms:
Want, Moderation
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Get one’s bearings; adjust; make familiar with a situation; orientate
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Determine, Adapt, Conform, Align
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Disorder, Unfit
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Banish from a group; exclude from public favor; ban; ex. His friends ostracized him. N. Ostracism
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Displace, Cut, Drop, Embrace
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Welcome
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Musical introduction to a long musical piece; first offer or proposal (to begin talks in the hope of reaching an agreement); ex. Overtures for peace
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Bid, Invitation, Offer, Conclusion
Antonyms:
Finish, Epilogue
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(of water) cover completely; defeat completely by much greater force; ex. Overwhelmed by grief
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Inundate, Crush, Overflow, Drown
Antonyms:
Underwhelm, Lose
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Nervous or excited; extremely agitated; hysterical; wrought-up; cf. Wrought: made or done
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Agitated, Nervous, Weary, Distraught
Antonyms:
Collected, Calm
