High frequency words (List 1)

Abate

Meaning: To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity; lessen.


Synonyms:  Decline, Diminish, Shrink.


Related Words:  
compress, condense, constrict, contract;evaporate, fade (away), fritter (away),  melt(away), peter (out), tail (off), vanish; slacken, slow(down); alleviate, relax; flag, sink, weaken; cave (in),collapse, deflate.


Antonyms: Accumulate, Mushroom, Swell. 


Sentence: However as the weather front moved through the wind abated and with it came sunshine and a changing wind direction.

Aberrant

Meaning: Being out of ordinary. 

Synonyms:  Abnormal, anomalous, Peculiar, Uncustomary.

Related Words:

conspicuous, notable, noticeable,outstanding, prominent, remarkable, salient, triking;bizarre, deviant, eccentric, freakish, monstrous, oddball,outlandish, quaint, strange, weird; incomprehensible,inconceivable, incredible, unimaginable, unthinkable.

Antonyms: Natural, Normal, Standard. 

Sentence: This was a year of aberrant weather-record rainfall in summer, record heat in autumn.

Abeyance

Meaning: A sate of temporary inactivity, Suspension.

Synonyms: deep freeze, doldrums,dormancy, holding pattern, latency, moratorium,quiescence, suspended animation, suspense.


Related Words:

inaction, inertia, inertness,motionlessness; impasse, standstill; coma, hibernation,hypnosis, repose, rest, sleep, slumber, torpor; recess,recession, remission; downtime, idleness, layoff.

Antonyms: continuation.

Sentence: our weekend plans were held in abeyance until we could get a weather forecast

Abscond

Meaning: to go away hastily and secretly; run away and hide, esp. in order to escape the law.

Synonyms: break out (of), clear out, flee, fly,get out, lam, run away, run off.

Related Words:

avoid, elude, evade, lose, shun; decamp,depart, elope, exit, go, leave, move, pull out, quit, sally(forth), shove (off), take off, walk out; disentangle,extricate; bring off, emancipate, enfranchise, free,liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, redeem, release, rescue,spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter

Antonyms: abide, dwell, hang around, linger, remain,stay, stick around, tarry; come back, return

Sentence: The driver of the car then absconded from the vehicle after the terrible accident.

Abstemious

Meaning: moderate, esp. in eating and drinking; temperate.

Synonyms: abstinent, continent, self-abnegating, self-denying, sober, temperate

Related Words:

ascetic (also ascetical), austere;disciplined, self-controlled, self-disciplined, self-governed

Antonyms: abide, dwell, hang around, linger, remain,stay, stick around, tarry; come back, return

Sentence: 

1. You know me: I am busy from morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well.

2. abstemious personal habits, he was endlessly generous to his students.

Admonish

Meaning: to criticize (someone) usually gently so as to correct a fault.

Synonyms: chide, reprimand, reproach,reprove, tick off.

Related Words:

berate, castigate, chew out, dress down,flay, harangue, jaw, keelhaul, lambaste (or lambast),lecture, rail (at or against), rate, scold, score, upbraid;abuse, assail, attack, bad-mouth, blame, blast, censure,condemn, criticize, crucify, denounce, dis (also diss)[slang], excoriate, fault, knock, lash, pan, reprehend,slam; belittle, deprecate, disparage, minimize, mock, put down; deride, ridicule, scoff, scorn.

Antonyms: approve, endorse (also indorse), OK (orokay), sanction; applaud, extol (also extoll), hail, laud,praise, salute, tout

Sentence: 

Mommy puts Sammy down while gently admonishing her to be more careful, Sammy totally ignores Mommy's warning.

Adulterate

Meaning: 

1. To make impure by adding extraneous, improper, or inferior ingredients.

2. relating to or being a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse

Synonyms: alloyed,contaminated, dilute, diluted, polluted, tainted, thinned,weakened

Related Words:

unclarified, unfiltered, unrefined; befouled,begrimed, bemired, besmirched, corrupted, debased,defiled, dirtied, fouled, maculate (or maculated), soiled,spoiled, sullied; blended, commingled, incorporated,intermingled, intermixed, merged, mingled, mixed;coalesced, combined, compounded; cheapened, doctored.

Antonyms: fine, pure, ultrapure, unadulterated, unalloyed,uncontaminated, uncut, undiluted, unmixed, unpolluted,untainted

Sentence: 

1. the pharmacist was convicted of selling adulterate drugs in order to maximize profits.

2. caught red-handed in what he claimed was his first adulterate encounter.

Aesthetic

Meaning: very pleasing to look at, artistic.

Synonyms:  attractive, beauteous, bonny (also bonnie)[chiefly British], comely, cute, drop-dead, fair, fetching,good, good-looking, goodly, gorgeous, handsome,knockout, likely, lovely, lovesome, pretty, ravishing,seemly, sightly, stunning, taking, well-favored

Related Words:

alluring, appealing, charming, cunning,delightful, engaging, fascinating, glamorous (alsoglamourous), prepossessing; elegant, exquisite, glorious,Junoesque, magnificent, resplendent, splendid,statuesque, sublime, superb; flawless, perfect, radiant;dainty, delicate; personable, pleasant, presentable;chocolate-box, prettyish; desirable, dishy, dollish, foxy,hot, luscious, nubile, pulchritudinous, seductive, sexy,tasty, toothsome, yummy.

Antonyms: grotesque, hideous, homely, ill-favored, plain,ugly, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, uncomely,uncute, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasing, unpretty,unsightly

Sentence: 

an aesthetic arrangement of the floral decorations.

Aggregate

Meaning: a complete amount of something.

Synonyms:   full, sum, summation, sum total,total, totality

Related Words:

gross; completeness, entirety; bulk, lion's share, mass; enchilada, schmear.

Sentence: 

I looked at the passengers in masses, and thought of them in their aggregate relations.

Alacrity

Meaning: cheerful readiness to do something.

Synonyms:   amenability, gameness, goodwill, obligingness,willingness

Related Words:

 celerity, quickness, rapidity, speed,speediness, swiftness; dispatch, promptitude,promptness; ardor, avidity, eagerness, enthusiasm,exuberance, fervor, gusto, keenness, relish, zeal, zest;agreeableness, geniality, good-naturedness, heartiness,warmth; open-mindedness, receptiveness, receptivity,responsiveness

Antonyms: leisureliness, pokiness, slowness,sluggishness; apathy, disinterestedness,halfheartedness, indifference, lukewarmness,perfunctoriness; delay, dilatoriness, doubt, equivocation,hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, reluctance, reservation,reticence, uncertainty, vacillation; disinclination,indisposition, recalcitrance, resistance, unwillingness;antipathy, averseness, aversion

Sentence: 

After getting the driving licence, he agreed with alacrity to take me to the airport.