Saturday, 28 March 2015

Words of the day (17/3/2015)

VOCABULARY 
 
Emancipate (verb)
Definition:  
to give people social or political freedom and rights.

Enigmas (noun)
Definition: 
something that is mysterious and seems impossible to understand completely.
Example:
The newspapers were full of stories about the enigma of the plane's disappearance.

Erudite (adjective)
Definition:
having or containing a lot of knowledge that is known by very few people.
Example:
He's the author of an erudite book on Scottish history.

Exemplar (noun)
Definition:
a typical or good example of something.
Example:
It is an exemplar of a house of the period.

Exonerate (verb)
Definition:
to show or state that someone or something is not guilty of something.
Example:
The report exonerated the crew from all responsibility for the collision.

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