Burgeon 1100 Words You Need Week 46 Day 1 /ˈbɜː.dʒən/ (verb) to start developing or growing quickly, flourish, thrive, prosper, increase rapidly, boom, escalate, expand, swell, snowball, augment, multiply, mushroom, proliferate This thesis analyses eighteenth-century portraiture within the context of ‘norms’ propagated in contemporary prescriptive and fictional literature, ‘norms’ which overlay a heterogeneous reality. The…
Dormant 1100 Words You Need Week 46 Day 1 Dormant 1100 Words You Need Week 46 Day 1 /ˈdɔː.mənt/ (adj) inactive and latent, sleeping, in a deep sleep, alive but not growing, asleep, resting, passive, inert, abeyant, potential, prepatent, quiescent, quiet, undeveloped, hidden The canned tuna market remained dormant in 2015, though raw material prices…
Ascertain 1100 Words You Need Week 46 Day 1 Ascertain 1100 Words You Need Week 46 Day 1 /ˌæs.əˈteɪn/ (verb) to make certain, discover, find out for certain, get to know, deduce, discern, understand, comprehend, determine, verify, confirm, figure out The body has been sent to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Science for autopsy to…
Coup de Grâce 1100 Words You Need Week 45 Day 4 /ˌkuː.dəˈgrɑːs/ (noun) Definition the final blow or shot to kill a person in suffering and agony, finishing blow, kiss of death, mercy killing, death blow, finishing stroke, finishing touch, last straw, breaking point, an act that assures victory, euthanasia Example A coup de grâce…
Termagant 1100 Words You Need Week 45 Day 4 Termagant 1100 Words You Need Week 45 Day 4 /ˈtɜː.mə.gənt/ (noun) an overbearing woman who argues noisily to achieve what she wants, a harsh-tempered woman who argues a lot, fishwife, harpy, a quarrelsome woman A bad-tempered woman or a termagant fears she may drive away her…