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Vocabulary 13

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  1. audible
    heard or perceptible by the ear
    Mike: The teacher was barely audible above the noise in the auditorium. Mine: The truck sounds are audible from a faraway place.
    Synonyms: aural, auricular, clear, deafening, detectable, discernible, distinct, hearable, loud, loud enough, perceptible, plain, resounding, roaring, sounding, within earshot
    Antonyms: inaudible
  2. coherence
    the state of sticking together
    Mike: The paper received a low grade because it lack coherence. Mine: Suddenly, Asuka change the topic from science test to iPhone game which show her poor coherence.
    Synonyms: adherence, attachment, bond, cementation, cling, clinging, comprehensibility, concordance, conformity, congruity, connection, consistency, consonance, construction, continuity, correspondence, inseparability, inseparableness, integrity, intelligibility, rationality, relations, solidarity, stickage, tenacity, union, unity
    Antonyms: disagreement, incoherence, incongruity, nonsense, unintelligibility
  3. digress
    wander from a direct or straight course
    Mike: The lecture was interesting when the speaker digressed and spoke about another topic. Mine: Veerut disgression about his grade showed that he have low grades.
    Synonyms: aberrate, beat about the bush, be diffuse, circumlocute, depart, divagate, drift, excurse, get off the point, get off the subject, get sidetracked, go by way of, go off on a tangent, long way, meander, ramble, roam, swerve, turn aside, veer, wander, wander away
    Antonyms: be direct, stay
  4. eloquent
    expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
    Mike: President Obama is very eloquent speaker. Mine: The eloquent speaker spoke an oral in front of the classmates.
    Synonyms: affecting, ardent, articulate, expressive, facund, fervent, fervid, fluent, forceful, glib, grandiloquent, graphic, impassioned, impressive, indicative, magniloquent, meaningful, moving, outspoken, passionate, persuasive, poignant, potent, powerful, revealing, rhetorical, sententious, significant, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken, stirring, suggestive, telling, touching, vivid, vocal, voluble, well-expressed
    Antonyms: dull, inarticulate
  5. garble
    distort or make false by mutilation or addition
    Mike: I can not hear my friend on the phone because the poor signal garbled his voice. Mine: When you speak through a fan, the fan will garble your voice.
    Synonyms: belie, color, confuse, corrupt, distort, doctor, falsify, jumble, misinterpret, mislead, misquote, misstate, mutilate, obscure, pervert, slant, tamper with, twist, warp
    Antonyms: decipher, order, pronounce, represent, translate, unscramble
  6. impromptu
    with little or no preparation or forethought
    Mike: Learning to perform in an impromptu way is something very difficult. Mine: Ma'am Vivian gave a sudden easy impromptu test.
    Synonyms: ad-lib, dashed off, extemporaneous, extempore, extemporized, fake, faked, improv, improviso, offhand, off the cuff, played by ear, shot from the hip, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, thrown off, tossed off, unpremeditated, unprepared, unscripted, unstudied, vamped, whipped up, winged
    Antonyms: deliberate, designed, planned, premeditated, rehearsed
  7. orator
    a person who delivers a speech
    Mike: A great orator can be a great leader because he or she can inspired people. Mine: For the great oratorical skills she has, she won the debate.
    Synonyms: declaimer, lector, lecturer, pontificator, preacher, public speaker, reciter, rhetorician, sermonizer
  8. proclaim
    declare formally
    Mike: It was proclaim that all 7th grader would be given free ice-cream at lunch. Mine: Pallavi proclaim that she's the owner of the iPhone and no one should touch it.
    Synonyms: affirm, announce, annunciate, blast, blaze, blazon, broadcast, call, circulate, declare, demonstrate, disseminate, enunciate, evidence, evince, exhibit, expound, get on a soapbox, give out, herald, illustrate, indicate, manifest, mark, ostend, pass the word, profess, promulgate, publish, shoot off mouth, stump, trumpet, utter, vent, ventilate, voice
    Antonyms: conceal, hide
  9. reiterate
    say, state, or perform again
    Mike: I often reiterate what I tell the student so they can remember thing well. Mine: I reiterate to my fater that do not forget to take us to Oishi Buffet.
    Synonyms: come again, ditto, double-check, echo, go over again, ingeminate, iterate, play back, recap, recapitulate, recheck, rehash, renew, repeat, reprise, resay, restate, retell, rewarn, say again
    Antonyms: take back
  10. terse
    brief and to the point
    Mike: Terse comments can often feel rude. Mine: Sometime Saris answers are very terse such as saying "No" without any explanation.
    Synonyms: abrupt, aphoristic, boiled down, breviloquent, brusque, clear-cut, clipped, close, compact, compendiary, compendious, concise, condensed, crisp, cryptic, curt, cut to the bone, elliptical, epigrammatic, exact, gnomic, in a nutshell, incisive, laconic, lean, neat, pithy, pointed, precise, sententious, short and sweet, snappy, succinct, summary, taut, to the point, trenchant
    Antonyms: lengthy, long-winded, prolix, wordy
Created on Thu Feb 28 09:31:29 EST 2013 (updated Wed Mar 13 10:45:18 EDT 2013)

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