Your words for today
1. Daft [daft, dahft] (adj)
Meaning: Silly; foolish; insane; crazy, scot. merry; playful; frolicsome
Synonyms: absurd, asinine, bedlamite, bonkers, cracked, crackers, daffy, demented, deranged, dopey, flaky*, foolish, fried, giddy, half-baked, idiotic, in the ozone, inane, insane, lunatic, mad, mental*, nuts, nutty, off the wall, out of one's gourd, ridiculous, screwy, silly, simple, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacky, whacko, witless
Antonyms: brainy, bright, intelligent, smart, understanding
Usage:
1. Even though he is quite handsome, he is daft when it comes to talking to girls.
2. In Europe, people behave daftly(adv) when it comes to Soccer.
3. These days, daft ideas can go from the back of the envelope straight into white papers.
4. Either way, it sounds plain daft to me.
5. I remember asking a mate what the song was, and felt pretty daft not knowing!
2. Recalcitrant [ri-kal-si-truh
nt] (adj)
nt] (adj)Meaning: Refusing to obey authority, custom or regulation; stubbornly defiant; hard to handle or deal wit.
Synonyms: resistant, rebellious, opposed, willful, withstanding, undisciplinable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward
Antonyms: amenable, obedient, passive, accommodating, agreeing, alike, concordant, correspondent, harmonious, homogeneous, like, obliging, similar
Usage:
1. Officers of East India Company were afraid of facing a recalcitrant person like Bhagat Singh or Chandrashekhar Azad.
2. When the company appointed a young post graduate as the head of marketing, most of the older staff started behaving recalcitrantly(adv) with him.
3. If we do not fulfill a child's demands, he may start showing recalcitrancy(noun) towards us.
4. His struggle to accommodate recalcitrant team members resonated with my experiences coaching 25 years of Oxford Boat Race crews.
5. Some recalcitrant states can claim the dubious honor of having failed to ratify either convention.
3. Beatific [bee-uh-tif-ik] (adj)
Meaning: feeling or expressing blissful happiness or joy.
Synonyms: rapturous, joyful, ecstatic, seraphic, blissful, serene, happy, glad, exalted, angelic
Antonyms: miserable, sorrowful, unhappy
Usage:
1. He is a man of great mettle and does not rest until he meets the goal
2. I don't mean apathy really, they just haven't grasped the mettle yet, never mind.
3. The first two days of the strike tested the mettle of both sides.
4. Among the earliest and most curious forms of amusements in Wales, was that of " trying the mettle " of the young men.
5. Some show more mettle in the face of death, while others become paralyzed from fear.
5. Sumptuous [suhmp-choo-uhs] (adj)
s] (adj)Meaning: splendid and expensive looking
Synonyms: lavish, opulent, luxurious, magnificent, resplendent, gorgeous, splendid, rich, expensive, munificent.
Antonyms: humble, plain, cheap, mean, poor, wanting
Usage:
1. More than the sumptuous spread on the table it was the hostess' geniality which was heart-warming.
2. Although the illustrations are very sumptuous, many of them do not add much to the exposition.
3. Return to the boat for a truly sumptuous local lunch.
4. Enjoy your first week of wedded bliss in the sumptuous surroundings of elegant Scottish country house hotels.
5. The presence of two women, with one man, and a rather sumptuous picnic was regarded as scandalous.
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