Vocabulary Enhancement: A Thesaurus of Powerful Synonyms

Vocabulary Enhancement

A Thesaurus of Powerful Synonyms

A

• Account: Report
• Actual: Authentic
• Activity: Movement
• Advert: Advertisement
• Admire: Appreciate, look up to
• Alone: Lonely
• All time: Constantly
• Allure: Appealing, glamorous, persuasive
• Ambush: Aggression
• Announcement: Publication, notice
• Annoyance: Upsetting
• Apologize: Regret
• Appeal to: Attraction
• Appreciation for one's talent or achievements: Recognition
• Approach: Advance
• Approve: Second
• Atmosphere: Above
• Auction: Subasta (auction)
• Awesome: Amazing
• Avoid: Elude, prevent
• Outrageous: Weird, excessive

B

• Ban: Prohibition
• Becoming a certain age: Turning
• Believable: Credible
• Bizarre: Weird, odd
• Blame: Accuse
• Boost: Support
• Bronch: Office (branch?)

C

• Call out: Announce
• Cheer: Encourage
• Childish: Immature
• Clap: Applaud
• Collect: Accumulate
• Collection: Compilation
• Come down on: Criticize
• Comical: Hilarious
• Connected to: Associate with
• Convicted: Criminal
• Cool: Chilly
• Costume: Uniform
• Countless: Incalculable, many
• Controversial: Polemic
• Convince: Persuade
• Court: Tribunal
• Crime: Delit, offense
• Cut back on: Trim
• Cut down: Deforest

D

• Damage: Harm, spoilt
• Dazzling: Brilliant
• Defenders: Supporters
• Deforestation: Cut down
• Degree: Title
• Destroy: Wipe out
• Disapprove: Dispraise
• Disease: Sickness
• Dispose of: Do away with
• Display: Exhibit, put on
• Disturbing: Upsetting
• Doubtful: Unsure
• Drilling: Perforation
• Dump: Tip, landfill

E

• Effective: Efficient
• Encourage: Animate, cheer
• Enthusiastic: Fascinated
• Equal: Similar
• Equality: Equivalence
• Error: Mistake
• Evicted: Thrown out
• Eviction: Expulsion
• Expect: Wait, hope
• Exploit: Explode (utilize?)

F

• Fad: Vogue
• Fascinating: Captivating
• Feeling: Sense
• Fit in: Adapt
• Fluent: Fluid
• Followers: Supporters
• Freedom: Liberty
• Fuel: Combustible
• Full: Packed

G

• Glamorous: Alluring
• Good-natured: Friendly
• Go up: Increase
• Go wild: Infuriate
• Guilty: Criminal

H

• Honest: Sincere, truthful
• Huge: Massive, enormous

I

• Illegal: Unlawful, lawless
• Impolite: Discourteous
• Improve: Advance
• In shock: Shocked
• Inactive: Dormant
• Include: Involve
• Incomplete: Scrappy
• Indifference: Coldness
• Impressive: Spectacular, striking
• Insist: Keep at
• Interval: Pause, stop
• Issue: Point

J

• Jail: Prison
• Join: Unite

K

• Know: Are aware

L

• Landfill: Dump
• Leadership: Direction
• Legal: Permitted
• Lend: Provide
• Lonely: Alone
• Look up to: Admire

M

• Major: Important
• Make it: Achieve, take off
• Massive: Enormous, huge
• Misbehave: Misconduct
• Misleading: Dishonest
• Mysterious: Enigmatic

N

• Near: Next to
• Network: Out of (connected?)
• Notice: Announcement, see

O

• Odd: Weird, bizarre
• Out of: Network
• Outspoken: Direct
• Overcrowded: Superpoblad (overpopulated), overpopulated
• Over the top: Exaggerated

P

• Place: Site, space, venue
• Polite: Educated
• Pollution: Contamination
• Powerful: Shocking
• Prevent: Avoid, stop
• Price: Value
• Prison: Jail
• Profit: Benefit
• Provide: Promote, lend, supply
• Pronounce: Say
• Purchase: Buy
• Put on: Exhibition

Q

• Quarrel: Dispute

R

• Rebuild: Reconstruct
• Regret: Lament
• Replace: Substitute
• Research based on asking people questions: Survey
• Reserve: Cancel (book?)
• Rubbish: Waste
• Rumor: Invention

S

• Say: Claim, pronounce, state
• Sell out: Wear out
• Sensible: Prudent
• Sensitive: Delicate
• Set: Venue
• Shoot: Do
• Shocking: Powerful
• Sign: Signal
• Similar: Equal
• Site: Space, place
• Slang: Argot
• Sophisticated: Elegant
• Space: Place, site
• Stand up for: Support
• State: Affirm
• Statement: Affirmation
• Stop: Prevent, pause
• Striking: Spectacular, impressive
• Substitute: Replace
• Suitable: Acceptable
• Support: Stand up for, boost
• Supply: Provide
• Switch: Change

T

• Take action: Do something
• Talk: Chat
• Talk back: Retort
• Team: A group of people that work together
• Thrown out: Evicted
• Trendsetter: Fashion icon
• Trim: Cut back on
• Truth: True
• Truthful: Honest

U

• Unbelievable: Incredible
• Undeveloped: Pristine, unspoilt
• Unexpected: Abrupt
• Unique: Unusual
• Unknown: Anonymous person
• Unite: Join
• Upsetting: Annoying, disturbing

V

• Valuable: Of value
• Value: Price

W

• Wait: Expect
• Warship: Devotion (worship?)
• Waste: Rubbish
• Wealthy: Opulent
• Wear out: Sell out
• Weird: Outrageous, bizarre, odd
• Wipe out: Destroy