1. BABBLE
- Meaning - To utter a meaningless confusion of words or sounds.
- Synonyms – gabble, chatter, gush, spout, waffle.
- Antonyms – Silence, quiet.
- Usage – Babies babble before they talk.
OLDER ARTICLES
151. AMPUTATE
- Meaning - to cut off somebody’s arm, leg or finger in a medical operation.
- Synonyms - cut away, cut off, dismember, separate, sever, truncate.
- Antonyms - join, add, put-in, fix.
- Usage - They are going to have to amputate his left leg.
141. AMNESIA
- Meaning - Partial or total loss of memory.
- Synonyms - Memory loss, blackout.
- Antonyms - Retention or Retentiveness.**
- Usage - He suffered from temporary amnesia after the accident and could not remember anything for a while.
** – Contributor - David.
131. AMBIVALENCE
- Meaning - The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings, such as love and hate, toward a person, object, or idea.
- Synonyms - equivocation.
- Antonyms - certainty, decisiveness
- Usage – In the short term, such ambivalence is not a problem.
121. ALOFT
- Meaning - In or into a high place; high or higher up.
- Synonyms - upward, skyward.
- Antonyms – down.
- Usage – Birds perching aloft telephone wires.
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