Words of the day (2/2/2015)

VOCABULARY

SYCOPHANTIC (ADJECTIVE)

DEFINITION:

(of a person or of behavior) praising people in authority in way that in not sincere, usually in order to get advantage from them.

EXAMPLE:
-  Isa always praise Anna sycophantic take advantages on her wealthy.

COHABIT (VERB)

DEFINITION:

If two people, especially a men and women who are not married, cohabit, they live together and have sexual relationship.

EXAMPLE:

-     Some religious prohibited couple from cohabiting.  

GRUDGE (VERB)

DEFINITION:

To be unhappy that sb has something or that you have to do sth.

EXAMPLE:
-  I don’t grudge him his success, he deserve it.

-      I grudge having to pay so much tax.

GRUDGE (NOUN)

DEFINITION:

Unfriendly feelings towards somebody, because you are angry about what has happened in the past.

EXAMPLE:

-      We have to bear a grudge against somebody.

DISMANTLE (VERB)

DEFINITION:

To take something to pieces; to separate something into the parts it is made from.

EXAMPLE:

-      The photographer dismantled his equipment and packed it away.