Vocabulary - Set 4
CREDITABLE: Deserving or reflecting Credit or honour - applauded for his creditable performance.
Synonyms: praiseworthy, meritorious, commendable
Antonyms: discreditable, infamous, opprobrious, ignominious
CURT: Rudely abrupt -offended by the curt response.
Synonyms: blunt, brusque, bluff
Antonyms: affable, civil
DELINQUENT (noun): An offender - found to be a delinquent by the court.
(adj.): Failing to fulfil an obligation - too many people who are delinquent in meeting their civic duties.
Synonym: derelict
DEMEANOR: Behaviour; bearing - carrying himself with a proud demeanour.
Synonyms: deportment, mien
DENOUNCE (noun: DENUNCIATION): To speak against - denounced by the press as a traitor.
Synonyms: stigmatize, censure, reprehend, castigate
Antonyms: laud, eulogize
DEPRECIATE: To belittle or speak slightingly of - depreciated John's acting ability.
Synonyms: disparage, derogate (adj. derogatory)
Antonyms: enhance, magnify, extol, laud, eulogize
DEVIOUS:
(1) Winding; indirect - took a devious, rather than the direct way home.
Synonyms: circuitous
(2) Straying from the right course - used devious means to attain his wicked ends.
Synonyms: crooked, erring
DEVOUT: Devoted to religious observances - devout in his regularity of attendance at worship.
Synonyms: pious, religious
Antonym: impious
DILEMMA: A situation calling for a choice between two equally difficult alternatives; hence, a difficult or perplexing situation - faced with a dilemma defying solution.
Synonyms: predicament, quandary, plight
DISCRETE: Separate - two discrete issues, totally unrelated.
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