1. CHOLERIC (ADJECTIVE): irritable
Synonyms: peevish, irascible
Antonyms: happy, pleasant
Example Sentence:
The old gentleman, choleric as he was, could not face the young girls cool bow and still bully the gate keeper.
2. DIORAMA (NOUN): scene, horizon
Synonyms: extent, dimension
Example Sentence:
The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
3. INEBRIATION (NOUN): drunkenness
Synonyms: boozing, dipsomania Antonyms: abstinence, soberness
Example Sentence:
His pleasure is to make his guests tipsy, and to tell everybody how and when the period of inebriation arose.
4. MARSHAL (VERB): organize, guide
Synonyms: assemble, mobilize Antonyms: disperse, disarrange
Example Sentence:
The first difficulty the committee found was to marshal a government without an executive.
5. SIMILITUDE (NOUN): semblance
Synonyms: alikeness, replica Antonyms: original, difference
Example Sentence:
No two children are similitude, and no two children have exactly similar needs.
6. OCCULT (ADJECTIVE): mysterious, secret; supernatural
Synonyms: concealed, hidden Antonyms: exposed, uncovered
Example Sentence:
One engineering school is even promoting a fascinating course on the relationship between the occult and technology.
7. CRINGING (ADJECTIVE): servile
Synonyms: crouching, submissive Antonyms: aggressive, dominant
Example Sentence:
He thrust his fat hand, its nails bitten down to the quick and beyond, in front of the cringing alien's eyes.
8. PREEMPT (NOUN): take over in place of another
Synonyms: acquire, annex Antonyms: relinquish, surrender
Example Sentence:
The woman who forgives and doesn't forget is trying to preempt heaven and raise hell.
9. MOONY (ADJECTIVE): dreamy
Synonyms: abstracted, imaginary Antonyms: factual, practical
Example Sentence:
It not only increases the power of real dangers, but predisposes the mind to all sorts of moony fears.
10. CORONACH (NOUN): sad song
Synonyms: elegy, hymn
Example Sentence:
Likewise that all the good old Women of his county were to sing what they call a coronach over him.
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