Understanding Common Words: Definitions and Usage

Understanding Common Words

This document provides definitions and examples of common words to enhance vocabulary and understanding.

• Archetype: (Sustantivo) A typical example of a person or thing. In this case, it serves as a pattern. She is an archetype of the modern woman.
• Atavism: (Sustantivo) A tendency to imitate or maintain customs or lifestyles of other eras. The red tone of her hair is an example of atavism.
• Ordered: (Verbo) To threaten a person with punishment if they do not do what one orders. Synonyms: threaten, intimidate. He warned that his brother was not with him.
• Convulsive: (Adjetivo) Applies to something excited by irritation or anger. Lexical family: convulsive, convulsion, convulse. Their convulsive love.
• Dantesque: (Adjetivo) Applies to something that has outraged or impressed greatly. Antonyms: wonderful. The pictures of his death were nightmarish.
• Sideways: (Adverbio) Indicates that one thing makes me look like the side. I don't like facing sideways.
• Empathetic: (Adjetivo) Applies to the ability to feel and understand the emotions of others as their own through a process of identification with the other. Alberto is empathetic because he understands everyone.
• Endemic: (Adjetivo) Refers to something that recurs frequently or is very widespread. World poverty is an endemic situation.
• Euphemistic: (Sustantivo) A word or softer expression that replaces another rude or distasteful one. Always use euphemistic terms.
• Fatuous: (Adjetivo) Applies to a person who is presumptuous and conceited, boasting about what they are not or do not have. Antonyms: humble, simple. He is so fatuous; he believes everyone prefers him.
• Unpunished: (Adverbio) Refers to what remains without punishment. Synonyms: freely, without damage, without punishment. He always made a fuss and got away with it.
• Unscathed: (Adjetivo) Applies to someone who has been compromised or had an accident and has not received any personal damage. The boy's face was unharmed after the accident.
• Limited to: (Adjetivo) Applies to something that brooks no who's who mailing or eliminates any possibility of replication.
• Torrid: (Adjetivo) Applies to something with a very high temperature. Antonyms: very cold. We had a very hot summer.
• Versatility: (Sustantivo) Unreasonable ease of changing opinion, taste, or humor. Synonyms: volubility, diversity. I was amazed by their versatile nature.
• Vestige: (Sustantivo) A trace or remnant of something past or ancient. The vestige of the war was something people wanted to forget.
• Wilderness: (Adjetivo) Refers to land that is uninhabited or uncultivated. Antonyms: fertile. The barren land causes many people to emigrate.
• Indelible: (Adjetivo) Applies to something that cannot be erased. The death of his father was an indelible mark.
• Inflexion: (Sustantivo) A change in tone of voice that gives a particular character to the teacher's orders. The teacher gave exhaustive orders.
• Bland: (Adjetivo) Said of something that is not funny or interesting. Synonyms: dull. It was such a bland game that it had no goals.