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Etymology: To make a whizzing sound.

Meaning:

1. To utter a plaintive, high-pitched, protracted sound, as in pain, fear, supplication, or complaint.
2. To complain or protest in a childish fashion.
3. To produce a sustained noise of relatively high pitch: jet engines whining.
4. To cry with soft, intermittent, often plaintive sounds.
5. To express negative feelings, especially of dissatisfaction or resentment.
6. To utter a low, usually nasal, complaining cry or sound, as from uneasiness, discontent, peevishness, etc.
7. To snivel or complain in a peevish, self-pitying way.

Usage of Whined :

1. The puppieswere whining from hunger.
2. He is always whining about his problems.
3. I whined my litany of complaints.
4. Next the Mac started to emit a high pitched whine.
5. Her whining voice tone was at such odds with her beauty that the result was hilarious.
6. You see this car has got a whining sound whenever my foot is on the gas pedal.
7. It puts out a constant little whine which I for one find very annoying.
8. They’re like people who leave their keys in their cars and whine when they get stolen.

Synonyms: Bellyache, fuss, grumble, howl, moan, murmur, sob.

Antonyms: Happiness, pleasure.

Etymology: From Greek eklektikos, selective.

Meaning:

1. Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles: an eclectic taste in music; an eclectic approach to managing the economy.
2. Made up of or combining elements from a variety of sources: “a popular bar patronized by an eclectic collection of artists, writers, secretaries and aging soldiers on reserve duty”
3. Comprehensive, general.
4. Not following any one system, as of philosophy, medicine, etc., but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems.

Usage of Eclectic :

1. The resort a the point of entertainment dvd home features an eclectic.
2. The food style is modern eclectic in a gastro style.
3. Stand Alone Complex delivers quite an eclectic mixture of episodes for its third volume.
4. My mother, a music teacher, has the most eclectic musical taste of anyone I have ever met.
5. Boutique Call For the latest trends across an eclectic mix of brands visit House of Fraser’s new Boutique.
6. He was no longer radical; he had become eclectic.

Synonyms: All-embracing, broad, diversified, heterogeneous, selective, varied, wide-ranging.

Antonyms: Incomprehensive, narrow, particular, specific, unvaried.

Etymology: From Latin galla ”gall, lump on plant,” originally ”oak apple,” of uncertain origin.

Meaning:

1. Very upsetting.
2. Causing extreme irritation or chagrin; vexing: a galling delay; a galling setback to their plans.
3. That galls; chafing; irritating; vexing; exasperating.
4. To make sore by rubbing; chafe severely: The saddle galled the horse’s back.
5. Machinery . (of either of two engaging metal parts) to lose metal to the other because of heat or molecular attraction resulting from friction.
6. Metallurgy . (of a die or compact in powder metallurgy) to lose surface material through adhesion to the die.

Usage of Galling:

1. I always find this question galling, for some reason.
2. It was galling to see the sun shining on the valleys to either side.
3. It is galling to think that everything you have been telling me could have been a lie.
4. The galling aspect is that the population lets them all get away with it.
5. The galling thing was I didn’t make any mistakes myself.
6. It’s a bit galling to hear of instances where half the money donated immediately disappears into the hands of ‘ officials ‘ .

Synonyms: Acid, aggravating, annoying, bothersome, grievous, harassing, humiliating.

Antonyms: Cheering, comforting, pleasing, satisfying, soothing, wonderful.

Etymology: In a faint

Meaning:

1. To faint.
2. To be overwhelmed by ecstatic joy.
3. To suffer temporary lack of consciousness.
4. To enter a state of hysterical rapture or ecstasy.
5. A faint or fainting fit; syncope.

Usage of Swooning:

1. That would have been enough to make delicate ladies swoon.
2. The theory that Jesus merely swooned on the cross and later revived in the tomb is one that clutches at straws.
3. A quiet introduction, that swooning voice, a beautiful wordless sound.
4. Erika PS… he is also very nice and kind to talk to and puts up with swooning women like me.
5. IAN LOVE is a bittersweet album of gently swooning pop, a quietly brilliant achievement.
6. An impeccable vocal performance, mid tempo but such a swooning swoonsome powerful vocal.

Synonyms: Become unconscious, black out, collapse, faint, feel lightheaded,  pass out, weaken.

Antonyms: Resuscitate, revive, consciousness, sensibility, awake, aware.

Etymology: Possibly short for Middle English frumple, wrinkle, from Middle Dutch verrompelen, to wrinkle.

Meaning:

1. A girl or woman regarded as dull, plain, or unfashionable.
2. A person regarded as colorless and primly sedate.
3. A dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman.

Usage of Frumpy:

1. A beautiful woman in frumpy clothes is still a beautiful woman.
2. Lynn’s 40th birthday was approaching and she didn’t want to be a ‘ fat frump ‘ !
3. Fortunately, they all know the secret; during pregnancy, use fashion to avoid being frumpy.

Synonyms: Badly dressed,  dowdy,  old-fashioned,  outdated,  unfashionable,  unstylish.

Antonyms: Fashionable, modern, tasteful, elegant, stylish, trendy, up-to-date.

Etymology: From Medieval Latin connot?re, to mark along with .

Meaning:

1. To suggest or imply in addition to literal meaning.
2. To have as a related or attendant condition.
3. To have or convey a particular idea.
4. Express or state indirectly.
5. Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic.
6. To involve as a condition or accompaniment: Injury connotes pain.
7. To have significance only by association, as with another word: Adjectives can only connote, nouns can denote.

Usage of Connote:

1. The term ‘liberal arts’ connotes a certain elevation above utilitarian concerns.
2. For a political leader, hesitation is apt to connote weakness.
3. The word “fireplace” often connotes hospitality, warm comfort, etc.
4. However, ‘ a work of art ‘ , etc. also connotes something that has achieved a certain cultural status.
5. The latitude connotes the appropriate degree of deference by court to public body.
6. Specific body alterations often connote social as well as spiritual status.

Synonyms: Imply, intimate, designate, express, hint at, indicate, signify.

Antonyms: Denote, conceal, hide, mislead, withhold.

Etymology: Leer ” to look obliquely “ ( now usually implying  ” with a lustful or malicious intent ” ), 1530, from Middle English ler  ”cheek,”.

Meaning:

1. A facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls.
2. A suggestive or sneering look or grin.
3. Look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression.
4. To look with a sidelong glance, indicative especially of sexual desire or sly and malicious intent.
5. A desirous, sly, or knowing look.
6. Faint for lack of food; hungry.
7. Having no burden or load.

Usage of Leer:

1. I can’t concentrate with you leering at me.
2. For a moment, the rock seemed to hang in the shape of a leering face, but then it was gone.
3. Do not leer at women with low cut tops.
4. Her black hair and dark violet eyes leered at Axel, scaring him beyond reason.
5. Surely a beer to be drunk by old men leering at girls in the park.

Synonyms: Eye, gloat, goggle, sneer, stare, wink.

Antonyms: Look away.

Etymology: Via French from Latin asper (rough).

Meaning:

1. Sharpness; toughness.
2. Roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, or climate: the asperity of northern winters.
3. Severity; rigor.
4. A slight projection from a surface; a point or bump.
5. Harshness of manner; ill temper or irritability.
6. Hardship; difficulty; rigor: the asperities of polar weather.

Usage of Asperity:

1. Bert adds the asperity of his Scottish voice to a lilting, traditional ballad called ” House Carpenter ” .
2. Harriet’s words were full of asperity.
3. The cause of her anger did not warrant such asperity.
4. In his speech, he expressed with asperity his displeasure at his committee’s continual disagreements.
5. Their grandfather always addressed them with asperity when he caught them running through the house.

Synonyms: Acerbity, bitterness, astringency, disagreeableness, roughness, tartness.

Antonyms: Calmness, happiness, kindness, mildness, affability, cheerfulness.

Etymology: From French clairvoyant  ”seeing clearly” , to clair clear + voyant seeing.

Meaning:

1. A person who has the power to see or know things that are not present to the senses.
2. Perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses.
3. Foreseeing the future.
4. Having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision.
5. Having great insight or second sight.
6. A person claiming to have the power to foretell future events.

Usage of Clairvoyant:

1. The clairvoyant predicted they would have a child in the next year.
2. The vehicle of feelings and emotions seen by clairvoyants as an aura of flashing colors.
3. This is not the same as the ‘ genuine clairvoyant psychic will find you your soulmate ‘ type of thing!
4. Indeed, every one of us is already ` blown about ‘ enough by these forces without developing any clairvoyant ability!
5. Mary Maria offers clairvoyant readings by phone and email.
6. Such was the extraordinary clairvoyant vision presented to the second sight of Mr Lees.

Synonyms: Intuitive, psychic, extrasensory, far-sighted, second-sighted, telepathic.

Antonyms: Incautious, rash, shortsighted, uncareful,unthinking, unwise.

Etymology: From Old French bastillon, from bastille “fortress, tower, fortified, building,”.

Meaning:

1. Fortification : a projecting portion of a rampart or fortification that forms an irregular pentagon attached at the base to the main work.
2. A fortified place.
3. Anything seen as preserving or protecting some quality, condition, etc.: a bastion of solitude; a bastion of democracy.
4. One that is considered similar to a defensive stronghold.
5. A well-fortified position.
6. A projecting part of a fortification.

Usage of Bastion:

1. Reality TV is & should remain the last bastion of the desperate.
2. The entrance is visible in the long front wall with its projecting bastions.
3. A series if semi circular bastions were constructed along the east and south sides of the Roman walls.
4. View looking across the moat toward one of the massive bastions of Dig Fort.
5. The sites of bastion towers may be detected where there are breaks in the bank and ditch of the outer bailey.
6. Tennis is one of the last remaining bastions of class privilege in this country.

Synonyms: Breastwork, bulwark, citadel, mainstay, stronghold, tower of strength.

Antonyms: Weak spot, weakness, weak point.