Easy Synonym words Flashcards
buoy
N: signal, marker; an anchored float serving as a navigation mark
V: keep (someone or something) afloat.
2. mark with a buoy.
“I let the water buoy up my weight”
2. “the wreck is often buoyed during summer months”
gripe
V: complain, grumble
N: a minor complaint; grievance
vile
A: extremely unpleasant
2. morally bad
he has vile tempers
N: vileness
pretense
N: feigning, fabrication; an attempt to make something that is not the case appear true.
2. claim, aspiration
“his anger is masked by a pretense that all is well”
2. she herself had long dropped any pretense to faith
constraint
N: a limitation or restriction.
“time constraints make it impossible to do everything”
espouse
V: adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).
“he turned his back on the modernism he had espoused in his youth”
allegiance
N: loyalty or commitment of a subordinate/lower rank to a superior or of an individual to a group or cause.
“those wishing to receive citizenship must swear allegiance to the republic”
testimony
N: evidence; a formal written or spoken statement, especially one given in a court of law.
2. evidence or proof provided by the existence or appearance of something.
“his blackened finger was testimony to the fact that he had played in pain”
ailment
N: an illness, typically a minor one.
“the doctor diagnosed a common stomach ailment”
irritable
A: bad-tempered, irascible; having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed or made angry.
“she was tired and irritable”
hail
N: ice that falls from the sky
V: call out to (someone) to attract attention.
2. extol; acclaim enthusiastically as being a specified
thing
“the crew hailed a fishing boat”
2. “he has been hailed as the new James Dean”
bleak
A: bare, exposed, desolate; (of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements.
“a bleak and barren moor”
