1.ADULATION X CRITICISM
Meaning : Flattery,Admiratioin(respect highly)
Usage : The rock star thrived on the adulation of his groupies and yes-men.
2.ADVOCATE X OPPOSE
Meaning : A person who recommends a policy, recommended(v).
Usage : The abolitionists advocated freedom for the slaves.
3.AFFABLE X RUDE
Meaning : Easily approachable,warmly friendly.
Usage : Nicholas was amazed at how affable his new employer was.
4.AFFECTED X UNFEIGNED
Meaning : Artificial,pretended manner,assumed inorder to impress.
Usage : His affected mannerisms his harvard
accent, his air of boredom his use of obscure foreign words bugged us.
5.AFFLUENCE X POVERTY
Meaning : Abundance,wealth.
Usage : Foreigners are amaged by the affluence and luxury of american way of life.
6.AGILITY X AWKWARDNESS
Meaning : Nimbleness,quick removing.
Usage : The agility of the acrobat amazed and thrilled the audience.
7.ALACRITY X SLOWNESS
Meaning : cheerful ,promptness,eagerness.
Usage : They packedup their skigear and climbed into the van with alacrity.
8.ALLEVIATE X WORSEN
Meaning : Relieve.
Usage : This should alloviate the pain,
if it does not we shal have to use stronger drugs.
9.ALLUR X REPEL
Meaning : Entice,attract.
Usage : Allured by the song of the sirens,
the helmsman steered the ship towards the roof.
10.ALOO X GRAGARIOUS
Meaning : apart,reserved.
Usage : Shy by nature,she remained aloof
while all the rest conversed.
11.AMALGAMATE X SEPARATE
Meaning : combine,unite in one body.
Usage : the union will attempt to amalgamate their groups into one national body
12.AMBIGUOUS X CLEAR
Meaning : Unclear,doubtful in meaning.
Usage : His ambiguous instructions misled us, we did not know which road to take.
13.AMBLE X HASTEN
Meaning : Moving at an easy pace.
Usage : When she first mounted the horse,
she was afraid to urge the animal to go faster than a gentle amble.
14.AMBULATORY X BEDRIDDEN
Meaning : Able to walk,not bedridden.
Usage : Calvin was a highly ambulatory patient,not only did he refused to be confined to bed,but also he insisted onriding his skate board up down the halls.
15.AMELIORATE X MAKE WORSE
Meaning : Improve.
Usage : Many social workers have attempted to amelirate the the conditions of people living in the slums.
16.ANALOGOUS X NOT COMPARABLE
Meaning : Comparable.
Usage : she called our attention to the things that had been done in
an analogous situation and recommended that we do the same.
17.ANATHEMATIZE X BLESS
Meanin : Curse.
Usage : The ayotolla khomeini heaped anatheme
upon “The Great satan”,that is the us.
18.ANOMALY X REGULARITY
Meaning : Irregularity
Usage : A bird that can not fly is an anomaly.
19.ANTIPATHY X FONDNESS
Meaning : Aversion,dislike.
Usage : Among his other antipathies are honking cars,boom boxes and heavy metal rock.
20.ANTITHISIS X SIMILARITY
Meaning : Contrast,direct opposite of or to.
Usage : This tyranny was the antithisis of all that he had hopped for ,and he tought it with all his strenghts.
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