{"id":11351,"date":"2018-08-23T11:23:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T05:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=11351"},"modified":"2018-08-23T11:23:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T05:53:58","slug":"vocabulary-236","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/vocabulary-236\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">1.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Aspersion<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: an attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong>: denigration, defamation<br \/>\n<strong>Antonym<\/strong>: adulation, approval, commendation<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think anyone is casting aspersions on you&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">2.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Abridge<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: shorten (a book, film, speech, etc.) without losing the sense<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong>: curtail, truncate, lessen, trim<br \/>\n<strong>Antonym<\/strong>: pad out, lengthened, expanded<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;an abridged text of his speech&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">3. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Allude<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at, mention without discussing at length.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong>: refer to, suggest, hint at, imply, mention,<br \/>\n<strong>Antonym<\/strong>: announce, declare, proclaim; elucidate, explain, spell out<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: she had a way of alluding to Jean but never saying her name&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">4. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Specious<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: superficially plausible, but actually wrong., misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong>: misleading, deceptive, false, fallacious,<br \/>\n<strong>Antonym<\/strong>: candid, direct, foursquare,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;a specious argument&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">5. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Solicit<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: ask for or try to obtain (something) from someone, accost someone and offer one&#8217;s or someone else&#8217;s services as a prostitute.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong>: request, apply for, put in for, seek, beg, plead for,<br \/>\n<strong>Antonym<\/strong>: forewarn, ward (off), warn; drive (away or off), repulse, turn away<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;he called a meeting to solicit their views&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;although prostitution was not itself an offence, soliciting was&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.Aspersion Meaning: an attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something. 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