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Dally

>> sounds like dolly or doll with u like to play
>> dally also sounds like delay. lazy people delay work

Meaning:

Verb
>> Act or move slowly
>> Have a casual romantic or sexual liaison with someone.

>> Behave carelessly or indifferently

>> To waste time

>> To talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

>> To consider not very seriously

Examples:

>> Please don’t dally. We need you here right away.

>> The guys always try to dally with the new secretaries.

>> The two of us dallied over our coffee that morning.

Synonyms:

play,  disport,  frolic,  recreate,  rollick,  skylark,  sport,  toy

Antonyms:

a) hasten

b) speed

c) take seriously

d) hurry

Babble

babble = bab – ble bla bla bla ( ble) which means to chatter foolishly

Meaning:

(verb)

>> to talk enthusiastically or excessively.
>> to utter meaningless or unintelligible sounds (like a baby)

>> to utter in an incoherently or meaninglessly repetitious manner.

(noun)

gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby

Synonyms:

bumble, chat,  chatter,  drivel,  drool,  gabble,  gibber,  jabber,  prattle,  sputter

Examples of BABBLE

Pay no attention to her.  She’s just babbling.
He’ll babble on about sports all night if you let him.
Her cousins were babbling in an unfamiliar dialect.

Antonyms:

a) Articulate

b) Enunciate

c) Pronounce

Cacophonous (adj.)

caco sounds like cactus and phonous like phone. So kindly try to remember it like this…a phone with a cactus makes irritating sounds.

Meaning:

>> having a harsh or discordant sound.

>> Containing, consisting of, or producing harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.

Synonyms: 
dissonant, strident, grating, raucous, discordant, inharmonious

Examples:

>> Unfortunately the healthcare debate is complex, chaotic and cacophonous.

>> The elephant was trumpeting, the train whistle shrieking and my baby was blubbering – I wondered if I would be able to rest with these cacophonous surroundings.

>> The screechy sounds of a soprano, not at her best, complete the irony of cacophonous combat.

>> As cacophonous as a henyard.

Antonyms (cacophonous)

a) Harmonious,

b) Musical,

c) Euphonious

Iconoclast (n)
ICONOCLAST-> Icon = idol + Clash = fragments. So, one who destroys idols into pieces is iconoclast.

Lachrymose (adj)

lachrymose- lac+chry (cry)+mose (most)…. so when you cry most you produce ‘tears’.

Meaning

~ given to tears or weeping

~ tending to cause tears

Synonyms :

dolorous, tearful, weeping, mournful

 

 

Example:

~ The funeral home was filled with lachrymose people.

~ She is always so lachrymose that it’s hard to be around her without becoming depressed oneself.

~ The lachrymose child cried all day about how he missed his mother.

 

 

 

 

Imbibe(v)

Sounds like bribe… if you bribe someone they are absorbed to your side.

Verb
~ To receive and absorb into the mind.
~ Absorb or assimilate (ideas or knowledge): “propaganda you imbibed in your youth”.
~ To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.

Synonyms
absorb – drink – soak up – drink in – soak – assimilate

Remonstrate (v)

Remonstration is a demonstration against a particular decision made by governing body.

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Meaning:
>> To say or plead in protest, objection, or reproof.

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Example:
>> She did not remonstrate, except again to repulse him quietly but firmly.
>> I only tell you this, in case you feel inclined to remonstrate.
>> Are we even in a condition to remonstrate with dignity?
>> But he did not retrace his steps in order to remonstrate with her severely in the street.
>> Madame Saillard ventured to remonstrate with her uncle.

Remonstrate (antonym)

A) defend
B) inveigh
C) rebel
D) wrangle
E) object