Vocabulary Words 18.08.2017

1. Amicable
Meaning: Friendly
Synonym: Cordial, Harmonious
Antonym: impolite, uncivil
Example Sentence: The business coach for the small company owner served as an amicable executive mentor

2.Acrimony
Meaning: bitterness or ill feeling.
Synonym: ill feeling, ill will, bad blood
Antonym: goodwill
Example Sentence: the AGM dissolved into acrimony

3.Adage
Meaning: a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.
Synonym: saying, maxim
Example Sentence:  the old adage ‘out of sight out of mind

4.Abstemious
Meaning: indulging only very moderately in something, especially food and drink
Synonym: temperate, moderate
Antonym: self-indulgent, intemperate
Example Sentence: We only had a bottle.’ ‘Very abstemious of you.

5.Alliteration
Meaning: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Synonym: exaggeration, expression.
Example Sentence:  the alliteration of ‘sweet birds sang