Daily Vocabulary: 21st December 2019

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STATUTORY (adjective) 
Meaning: decided, controlled, or required by law.
Synonyms: legitimate, permissible, admissible, allowable.
Antonyms: unconstitutional, illegal, irrelevant, unofficial.
Usage: She’s below the statutory age for school attendance.

BACKSTOP (noun) 
Meaning: an emergency precaution or last resort.
Synonyms: safeguard, preventive measure, insurance.
Antonyms: constraint, limitation, restriction, sanction.
Usage: They want the Democrats to act as a backstop for this wild nonsense.

MILEAGE (noun) 
Meaning: actual or potential benefit or use to be derived from a situation or event.
Synonyms: advantage, utility, gain, profit.
Antonyms: inappropriateness, uselessness, worthlessness, loss.
Usage: There may indeed be mileage in developing the church hall as a community.

ARRANT (adjective) 
Meaning: used to say how bad something is.
Synonyms: utter, absolute, complete, thorough.

Antonyms: dubious, questionable, restricted, uncertain.
Usage: Because of her arrant devotion to her family, she volunteered to go to the labor camp with them.

INTRANSIGENCE (Noun)
Meaning: refusal to change one’s views or to agree about something.
Synonyms: inflexibility, stubbornness, obstinacy
Usage: I can’t understand Rachel’s intransigence, considering that we have undeniable proof that her idea is incorrect.

STONEWALL (Verb)
Meaning: delay or obstruct (a request, process, or person) by refusing to answer questions or by being evasive.
Synonyms: delay, rebuff
Usage: Picketing protestors were determined to stonewall the peace talks and keep the lockout going.

FLAGRANT (Adjective)
Meaning: (of an action considered wrong or immoral) conspicuously or obviously offensive.
Synonyms: blatant, glaring, obvious, overt, evident,
Antonyms:  unobtrusive, slight
Usage: The bruises on the boy’s legs revealed the flagrant abuse he had suffered at home.

CARCASS (noun) 
Meaning: the dead body of an animal.
Synonyms: corpse, cadaver, remains, relics.
Antonyms: revival, alive, essence, resurrection.
Usage: There were a couple of dead animal carcasses on the ground as well.

FRAUGHT(Adjective)  

Meaning: Filled with or attended with

Synonym: charged, laden

Antonym: empty, devoid

Usage: Her birthday was fraught with awkward moments when her family saw her blue hairs.

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