Undernourished 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28 /ˌʌn.dəˈnʌr.ɪʃt/ (adj) suffering from malnutrition, not getting enough nutritious food to maintain health, lacking enough nutrients for optimum health, starved, underfed, famished, malnourished, hungry Malnutrition (undernutrition) is caused by a lack of nutrients, either as a result of a poor diet or problems absorbing nutrients from food. The…
Promote 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28 /prəˈməʊt/ (verb) move forward and progress, get into a higher position, progress, elevate, upgrade, advance – to encourage or endorse something, uphold, sponsor, stimulate, assist, nurture, contribute to, boost A promotion is the advancement of an employee’s rank or position in an organizational hierarchy system. Promotion may be…
Outlaw 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 28 /ˈaʊt.lɔː/ (noun & verb) Noun: a criminal person escaping from legal punishment, lawbreaker, fugitive, runaway, brigand, bandit, desperado Verb: to make something illegal, ban something, forbid, veto, prohibit, proscribe, disallow, suppress, censure In historical legal systems, an outlaw is one declared as outside the protection of the law.…
Monarch 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 27 /ˈmɒn.ək/ (noun) a king or queen, potentate, ruler, sovereign, crown, emperor, empress, imperator, tsar, prince, princess This is a list of Portuguese monarchs who ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and creation of the Portuguese Republic…
Miserly 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 27 /ˈmaɪ.zəl.i/ (adj) unwilling to spend money even on necessary things, parsimonious, too frugal, niggardly, stingy, mean, close-fisted, tight-fisted, penny-pinching – meager, insignificant, paltry, derisory, nominal, infinitesimal, trifling Miserly side of billionaire Mark Zuckerberg When it comes to revealing the stinginess or miserliness of celebs, Mark Zuckerberg and wife…
Thrifty 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 27 /ˈθrɪf.ti/ (adj) very careful with money and resources, frugal, economical, prudent, cautious, sparing, parsimonious, provident I really dislike this statement – No one ever gets rich by being frugal and thrifty. Some people like to say this whenever you try to save money. To me, this means you…
Cease 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 27 /siːs/ (verb) to stop something, put an end to, finish, end, put a stop to, terminate, abolish, come to a close, die down, close down, desist, discontinue, abstain, give up A ceasefire (or truce), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of ‘open fire’), is a temporary stoppage of…
Unite 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 27 /jʊˈnaɪt/ (verb) to join together and form a group, mix, unify, fuse, blend, integrate, amalgamate, gather, bond, connect, bring together, come together, merge, combine – marry, wed, join in matrimony On Sept. 9, 1776, the Continental Congress formally changed the name of their new nation to the “United…
Feeble 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 27 /ˈfiː.bļ/ (adj) frail, decrepit, unsteady, wobbly, doddering, enervated, debilitated, incapacitated, shaky, delicate – unconvincing, ineffective, pathetic, ineffectual Will you love me when I’m old and feeble? Will you love me when I’m old and gray? When this heart of mine grows tired and weary, Will you love me…
Severity 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 27 /sɪˈver.ɪ.ti/ (noun) the state of being intense or severe, intenseness, intensity, harshness, strictness, cruelty, sternness, ruthlessness, cruelty, brutality, relentlessness – seriousness, gravity, acuteness – simplicity, bareness, plainness We compared three assessor types (self-assessors, peer-assessors, and teacher assessors) to determine whether they differed in the levels of severity they…