20 NEW WORDS

PRESENTED BY : RAMAN KUMARROLL No. 18BATCH : ENG.L.A. ITM (UPTU), MATHURA

1) AFFLUENZA

Meaning : A blend of 'affluence' and 'influenza'. A social

disease resulting from extreme materialism and excessive

consumerism:

Synonyms : abundance, fortune, luxury, opulence, plenty.

Antonyms : destitute, impoverished, needy, penniless, poor.

Sentence : A potential criticism of the idea of Affluenza is that it

presents subjective social critique as an objective

inevitable and debilitating illness.

2) ALCOPOP

Meaning : Fruit drinks fortified with alcohol, designed andmarketed to appeal to young people.

Synonyms : Alky, booze, canned heat, cocktail, drink, ethanol, firewater, hard stuff

Antonyms : Abstainer, teetotaler

Sentence : Your breath can tell a lot more about you than whether you brushed your teeth this

morning or have been drinking Alco pop.

3) AMUZING

Meaning : A cross between amazing and amusing.

Antonyms : anger, annoy, bore, dull, tire, upset.

Synonyms : break one up, charm, cheer, crack up, delight.

Sentence : It was amuzing to hear her tell the story.

4) MUGGLE

Meaning : A person who possesses no magical powers.

Synonym : Ordinary human beings

Antonym : Magician

Sentence : The few Muggles that do know of the existence of

the wizarding world are usually parents, or close

relatives, of witches and wizards.

5) BEESTINGS

Meaning : The first milk removed from a cow after it has

given birth.

Synonym : ale, amber fluid or nectar , Immunology

Antonym : cede, lose, relinquish, retreat, surrender

Sentence : children mostly like the beesting.

6) DECEY

Meaning : Something that is dangerous.

Synonym : Risky, dangerous

Antonym : Easy, simple

Sentence : Climbing on the mountains is too much decey.

7) COMESTIBLES

Meaning : Formal.

Synonym : Edibles, victuals

Antonym : Venom Toxin Poison Bane

Sentence : The school uniform is comestible for every student.

8) DORMOBILE

Meaning : Motor caravan,

Synonym : Bakkie, Black Maria, breakdown truck, bus

Antonym : Normal vehicles

Sentence : He has enough money for purchasing the

Dormobile.

9) GOTH

Meaning : Style of rock music with an intense,

Synonym : Barbaric, barbarous, eerie, grotesque

Antonym : Current, new, new-fangled

Sentence : They all give the gothic performance.

10) HACKSAW

Meaning : Saw with a narrow blade

Synonym : Hack saw, hacksaw, metal saw

Antonym : Saw,

Sentence : He have a strong hacksaw.

11) HOGWASH

Meaning : Rubbish

Synonym : BS, absurdity, balderdash, baloney, bunk,

debris, drivel

Antonym : sense, truth

Sentence : That was too hogwash in the show.

12) INALEIABLE

Meaning : That cannot be transferred to another.

Synonym : Basic, entailed, inbred, inviolable, natural,

nonnegotiable, nontransferable, sacrosanct, unassailable

Antonym : Acquired, alienable, changeable, impermanent,

transitory

Sentence : The soul of human is inaleiable.

13) DEBAR

Meaning : The action of excluding or boycotting.

Synonym : Prohibited, excluded.

Antonym : Acceptable, Included.

Sentence : The worst part of the team is being debared.

14) GRUESOME

Meaning : The terrifying thing.

Synonym : horrible, disgusting,

Antonym : Beautiful

Sentence : The scary movie is too much Gruesome.

15) INTESTATE

Meaning : Not having made a will before death.

Synonym : Descended from, bequest, bequeath, claimant

Antonym : Testate

Sentence : He is responsible for his intestate.

16) OCCLUDE

Meaning : Stop up or close.

Synonym : Absorb and retain.

Antonym : Allow, help, permit

Sentence : He is occluded for the presentation in the IIT

17) PLENUM

Meaning : Full assembly of people

Synonym : Group meeting,

Antonym : Single discussion

Sentence : The meeting of plenum was dismissed.

18) QUANGO

Meaning : Semi-public body with financial support

Synonym : council, executive committee

Antonym : Ungrouped

Sentence : But transparency will make much more difference

than yet another quango.

19) SEMBLANCE

Meaning : Appearance

Synonym : Material, glossiness, likeness

Antonym : Dissimilarity incongruity, unlikeness

Sentence : When I hurted them, they all look in semblance.

20) THINGUMMY

Meaning : A person whose name one has forgotten,

Synonym : Gimmick, thingamabob, twist, widget.

Antonym : No antonym found for this word.

Sentence : I saw so many thingummy during my journey.