VOCABULARY

🔰VOCABULARY 🔰

1.Lacerate (verb)
Meaning: tear or make deep cuts in (flesh or skin).
criticize forcefully or severely.
Example: "the point had lacerated his neck"
"her true venom seems reserved for the media itself as she lacerates our obsession with celebrity"
Synonyms: cut (open), gash, slash, tear, rip, rend, mangle, mutilate,

2.Lambaste (verb)
Meaning: criticize (someone or something) harshly.
Example: "they lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth"
synonyms: criticize, castigate, chastise, censure, condemn

3.Larceny (noun)
Meaning: theft of personal property. In English law larceny was replaced as a statutory crime by theft in 1968.
Example: After finding his computer was not where he left it, he accused his sister of larceny.
synonyms: theft, stealing, robbery, pilfering, thieving, thievery, purloining

4.Lassitude (noun)
Meaning: a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy.
Example: "she was overcome by lassitude and retired to bed"
synonyms: lethargy, listlessness, weariness, languor, sluggishness, enervation, tiredness,

5.Latency (noun)
Meaning: the state of existing but not yet being developed or manifest; concealment.
Example: "tension, and the latency of violence, make the greatest impressions"

6.Badinage
Meaning: humorous or witty conversation
Synonym: repartee
Sentence: "he developed a nice line in badinage with the Labour leader"

7.Banter
Meaning: the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks.
Synonym: wisecracks, crosstalk, wordplay; More
Sentence:"there was much good-natured banter"

8. Sobriquet
Meaning: a person's nickname.
Synonym: alias, byname, cognomen, epithet
Sentence: "she was a vast and haughty person who answered to the sobriquet ‘Duchesse’"

9.Skulduggery
Meaning: underhand, unscrupulous, or dishonest behaviour or activities.
Synonym: trickery, swindling, fraudulence
Sentence: "a firm that investigates commercial skulduggery"

10. Sinister
Meaning: giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen.
Synonym: menacing, threatening, ominous
Antonym: auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable
Sentence: "there was something sinister about that murmuring voice"