Vocabularies of the Day - October 3, 2008

1. agonize
- To suffer extreme pain or great anguish.
- To make a great effort; struggle.
- To cause great pain or anguish to.
- synonyms: afflict

2. sentiments
- A thought, view, or attitude, especially one based mainly on emotion instead of reason
- Emotion; feeling: Different forms of music convey different kinds of sentiment.
- Tender or romantic feeling.
- The emotional import of a passage as distinct from its form of expression.
- The expression of delicate and sensitive feeling, especially in art and literature.
- synonyms: feeling, opinion.
- An anti-American sentiment swept through the country

3. vast
- malaki, malawak
- Very great in size, number, amount, or quantity.
- Very great in area or extent; immense.
- Very great in degree or intensity
- synonyms:enormous.

4. fallow

adj.

1. Plowed but left unseeded during a growing season: fallow farmland.
2. Characterized by inactivity: a fallow gold market.

n.

1. Land left unseeded during a growing season.
2. The act of plowing land and leaving it unseeded.
3. The condition or period of being unseeded.

5. decent - sapat
adj.

1. Characterized by conformity to recognized standards of propriety or morality.
2. Free from indelicacy; modest.
3. Meeting accepted standards; adequate: a decent salary.
4.
1. Morally upright; respectable.
2. Kind or obliging: very decent of them to lend you money.
5. Informal. Properly or modestly dressed.

6. dawns
- bukang-liwayway, liwayway, pasimula, simula
n.

1. The time each morning at which daylight first begins.
2. A first appearance; a beginning: the dawn of history. See synonyms at beginning.

intr.v., dawned, dawn·ing, dawns.

1. To begin to become light in the morning.
2. To begin to appear or develop; emerge.
3. To begin to be perceived or understood: Realization of the danger soon dawned on us.

7. darned
- magsulsi; tahiin; sulsihan

v., darned, darn·ing, darns.

v.tr.

To mend (a garment, for example) by weaving thread or yarn across a gap or hole.
v.intr.

To repair a hole, as in a garment, by weaving thread or yarn across it.
n.

A hole repaired by weaving thread or yarn across it: a sock full of darns.

8. dread
- lagim, matakot, pangamba, takot

v., dread·ed, dread·ing, dreads.

v.tr.

1. To be in terror of.
2. To anticipate with alarm, distaste, or reluctance: dreaded the long drive home.
3. Archaic. To hold in awe or reverence.

v.intr.

To be very afraid.
n.

1. Profound fear; terror.
2. Fearful or distasteful anticipation. See synonyms at fear.
3. An object of fear, awe, or reverence.
4. Archaic. Awe; reverence.

adj.

1. Causing terror or fear: a dread disease.
2. Inspiring awe: the dread presence of the headmaster.

9. lingering
- matagal; paulit-ulit
- continuing for a long time

10. spectacular
- kahanga hanga
adj.

Of the nature of a spectacle; impressive or sensational.
n.

Something that is spectacular, as:

1. A single dramatic production of unusual length or lavishness.
2. An elaborate display.

11. extemporaneous
adj.

1. Carried out or performed with little or no preparation; impromptu: an extemporaneous piano recital.
2. Prepared in advance but delivered without notes or text: an extemporaneous speech.
3. Skilled at or given to unrehearsed speech or performance: an accomplished extemporaneous speaker.
4. Provided, made, or adapted as an expedient; makeshift: an extemporaneous policy decision.

12. abduct
- itakas; itanan; magtanan; tangayin; agawin; dikutin
1. To carry off by force; kidnap.
2. Physiology. To draw away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part or limb.

13. wreck
n. pagkabagbag; pagkasira; pagkawasak

v. sirain wasakin; mabangga; wasakin; lansagin; iwasak; iguho

n.

1. The act of wrecking or the state of being wrecked; destruction.
2. Accidental destruction of a ship; a shipwreck.
3.
1. The stranded hulk of a severely damaged ship.
2. Fragments of a ship or its cargo cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck; wreckage.
4. The remains of something that has been wrecked or ruined.
5. Something shattered or dilapidated.
6. A person who is physically or mentally broken down or worn out.


v., wrecked, wreck·ing, wrecks.

v.tr.

1. To cause the destruction of in or as if in a collision.
2. To dismantle or raze; tear down.
3. To cause to undergo ruin or disaster. See synonyms at blast, ruin. See Usage Note at wreak.

v.intr.

1. To suffer destruction or ruin; become wrecked.
2. To work as a wrecker.

14. wreckage - natira, labi

15. ensuing
adj

Definition: resultant
Antonyms: antecedent, preceding

16. ensue - humantong, mangyari, sumunod, umuwi

17. spellbound
- synonyms: Fascinated, Hypnotized, Mesmerized, Transfixed,

18. compassion - awa, dumamay, habag
n.

Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it.
synonyms; pity

19. bubbly
adj.

1. Full of or producing bubbles: a bubbly drink; a bubbly soap.
2. Resembling bubbles: big, bubbly clouds.
3. Full of high spirits; effervescent: bright, bubbly children.

20. saga - alamat
n.

1.
1. A prose narrative usually written in Iceland between 1120 and 1400, dealing with the families that first settled Iceland and their descendants, with the histories of the kings of Norway, and with the myths and legends of early Germanic gods and heroes.
2. A modern prose narrative that resembles a saga.
2. A long detailed report: recounted the saga of their family problems.

21. sagacious - tuso

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