Vocabulary Mastery I
What is the idiomatic expression for an ample space and distance to eschew cofrontation or trouble ?
A Wide Berth
What do you call an apparatus to mammock , rend , and break asunder
Ripper
This farm implement consists of a heavy or upright disks as used to break up and plough ( plow ) soil . Context : the farmer uses the __?__ to work the earth soil and to cut furrow ; to inflict great distress or torment on
Harrow
This lexicon is alternatively called a plow . As agricultural implement , the farmer breaks up the soil or cut furrow ; a tool as snow__?__ used to break up the snow ; to __?_ into the throng of people or to move progressively through the crowd
plough
Plowed and yet left unseeded during the growing season
Fallow
A flat bladed implement used to chop and hew whole wheat or as decoy to entrap the aquatic marine fish
Mattock
One who mills and grinds the grain
Miller
Slavishly imitative to the point of resembling the primate ( ape's ) behavior ; outlandish ; foolishly emulative
Apish
A sufficient and well ventilated space for a ship 🚢 to maneuever ; a space for a ship to dock and anchor ; employment on a ship ; a built in bed on a train or ship that is usually reserved for slumber and rest ; an accommodation ; a space for parking vehicle ; In the verbal tense : to bring a ship for docking
Berth
The Chemistry teacher admonished the students not to touch the __?__ object given its corrosive matter . It's highly acidic . Fill in the Blank meaning of caustic substance .
Mordant
A Quagmire that is swampy . The low lying soil is muddy . It is synonymous with mire .
Morass
Expressionless ; indescribable ; of something that cannot be espoused .
Ineffable
An Allegory using animals as the protagonist and characters of the story . It offers moral edification .
Apologue
An African Ant eating mammal
Aardvark
Any of the esculent and edible marine gastropod having the genus halitosis and contains a pearly interior ; of mollusk
Abalone
A Slaughterhouse or Butchery designed to butcher and kill the animals .
Abattoir
In Psychology , it is characterized by avoidance and Withdrawal. Its Antonym is Adient .Context : The socially withdrawn person is __?__ .
Abient
A disavowal or recantation of the previous assertion .
Abjuration
To recant earlier statement or evaluation
Abjure
The Earnest pleas
Adjuration
To plea or request earnestly
Adjure
A building as used to house military personnel ; a lodge in this facility .
Barrack
A narrative song with a recurrent refrain ; a narrative poem ; synonym is lay
Ballad
The hardy wood stem of bamboo plants as used in construction and craft as well as fishing poles ; a Xyloid , woody tropical grass having a hollow woody stems ; a mature & auriferous canes as used for furniture and construction
Bamboo
A Citadel ; a Stronghold ; a Castle ; a projecting part of a fortification
Bastion
An adjectival term meaning of hooves , cloven , dichotomy; divided
Bisculate
This lexicon means to fumigate and to criticize severly . Cudgel is another denotative character. Its Latin Etymology is ' fustigatus ' and its past participle is " fustigare " ( Fustigus + igare ) . Provide the verbal tense of the word .
Fustigate
It is known by this cognomen meaning nickname . The word functions as an alternative appellation . What is this lexical term .?
Sobriequet
A Sobriequet or cognomen meaning a shorter version of the whole name .
Moniker
Lienal ; pertaining to a spleen
Splenic
Vacuous ; Fatuous ; utterly stupid , inane , and imbecile ; bearing the quality of a donkey
Asinine
Self styled . This lexicon has a French overtone
Soi di sant
The capacity to absorb content ; squinhy ; squashy ; absorbent
Squishy
A Digression involving an abrupt change of directionality ; of irrelevant talk and remark ; Discursive as in Rigmarole
Tangent
A Chimpanzee , a Bonobo , a Gorilla , and an Orangutan are Primate as collectively called the Great Apes . They are a member of the Pongidae family . What is the term for these creatures ?
Pongid