A List 101-110

101. AIRY

• Meaning –High in the air; lofty,Open to the air.

• Synonyms –aerial, atmospheric, pneumatic,breezy, buoyant, debonair, jaunty.

• Antonyms –burdensome, heavy,close, closed, oppressive, stuffy.

• Usage – The office was light and airy.

102. ALABASTER

• Meaning –A pale yellowish pink to yellowish gray.

• Synonyms –fair, ivory, light, pale.

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• Usage – I found an alabaster while playing by seashore.
  

103. ALACRITY

• Meaning –prompt and eager readiness.

• Synonyms –dispatch, expedition, goodwill, promptitude, readiness.

• Antonyms –apathy, aversion, disinclination, dullness, indifference, reluctance, slowness, unwillingness.

• Usage –He accepted his offer with alacrity.

104. ALBINO

• Meaning –person or animal born with no colouring pigment in the skin and hair (which are white) and the eyes (which are pink).

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• Usage –The condition of being an albino.

105. ALCHEMY

• Meaning –medieval form of chemistry.

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• Usage – Picture depicting medieval chemistry symbols.

106. ALCOVE

• Meaning –A semi-circular, steep-sided cavity on a rock outcrop, caused by water erosion, especially spring-sapping.
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• Synonyms – nook, recess.
  

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• Usage –The bed fits neatly into the alcove.

107. ALDER

• Meaning –tree of the birch family, usu growing in marshy places.

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• Usage – Picture showing the alder tree.

108. ALIEN / ALIENATE

• Meaning –A person from another and very different family, people, or place, to become unfriendly or indifferent.

• Synonyms –exotic, foreign, strange, newcomer, outlander, outsider, stranger

• Antonyms –akin, appropriate, native, proper citizen, countryman, national,  settler.

• Usage – Have you seen movie alien vs predator ?

109. ALLAY

• Meaning –To calm or pacify, to relieve.

• Synonyms – alleviate, assuage, comfort, ease, lessen, lighten, mitigate, palliate, relieve.

• Antonyms –intensify, provoke, stir, worsen.

• Usage – Pain killer drugs allay pain.

110. ALLEGE

• Meaning –To assert without or before proof.

• Synonyms –affirm, argue, assert, asseverate, aver, avouch, avow, claim, contend, declare, hold, maintain, say, state.

• Antonyms –contradict, deny, disagree, dissent, object, protest, repudiate.

• Usage –They police allege that the man was murdered but they have given no proof.