Pogrom (n)
An official prosecution program which usually leads to mass killing of a group of people, usually for racial or religious reasons.
Pogrom is a program of official mass killing.
E.g.:
State organized pogrom after the Godhera train carnage.
A pogrom ordered by Hitler.
Syn: slaughter, mass murder, massacre, butchery, killing, wholesale slaughter, general slaughter, carnage, blood bath, genocide
Antonyms of Pogrom
A) Slaughter
B) Schedule
C) Renaissance
D) Persecution
E) Peonage
Popularity: 16% [?]
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Fulgent (adj)
Full + detergent — we can bring fulgent using a full detergent cake.
>> “Tower searchlights . . . as fulgent as half a billion candles” Nicholas Profits
Meaning:
shining intensely; “the blazing sun”; “blinding headlights”; “dazzling snow”; “fulgent patterns of sunlight”; “the glaring sun”
Syn: ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, burnished, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashing, fulgent, fulgid, glaring, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glossy, glowing, golden, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, intense, irradiated, lambent, light, lighted, luminous, lustrous, mirrorlike limpid, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, vivid
Ant: black, dark, dim, dreary, dull, gloomy
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a) blinding
b) preen
c) radiant
d) black
e) tenebrous
Popularity: 21% [?]
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