Your Words for Today
1. Embark [em-bahrk] (verb)
Meaning: get on transportation object or to begin something
Synonyms:entrain, go aboard ship, launch, leave port,board, commence,
emplane, enter, plunge into, put on board, set about, set out, set sail,
take on board, take ship, start, undertakeAntonyms:disembark, stay
Usage:
1.In November 1915 the regiment embarked for France, real war.
2.On 23rd April, I shall be embarking upon a journey of some 26.2 miles around London.
3.Read this before embarking on a major change that involves a group, business or otherwise.
4.The vast majority of our students go on to university; a few embark directly on a career.
5.Sensing a Government cover-up, he embarks on a quest to uncover the secret of the massacre. 2. Rant [rant] (noun)
Meaning: speak in a loud, angry and forceful way.
Synonyms: tirade, harangue, diatribe, broadside, verbal onslaught, oration, philippic, rhapsody, rhetoric,rodomontade, tirade, vociferation
Antonyms: calm, quiet
Usage:
1. He launched into a rant against the swindler who had duped him.
2. Thought provoking and well argued rant about the lack of attention to basic interoperability in elearning standard implementation.
3. A cool calculated letter is likely to have more impact than a hysterical rant.
4. I just want to rant about how unfair I think the whole situation is.
5. Well it don't actually look like hes playing anything, just ranting on.
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