English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'T'

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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'T'

1. TANGIBLE: Real; actual.
   Sentence:
   * Tangible gains which may be seen. and counted.
   Synonyms: Material, Veritable, Perceptible, Substantial.
   
   
2. TANTAMOUNT: Equivalent.
   Sentence:
   * An act that is tantamount to treason.
   
   
3. TAUNT:
   (Verb): To reproach with contempt.
   Sentence:
   * Taunted him with the charge of failure to act promptly.
   Synonyms: Mock, Twit, Gibe, Sneer, Deride.
   (Noun): An insulting, jeering, or bitter remark.
   Sentence:
   * Hurled taunts at his foes.
   
   
4. TEEMING: In abundance, fertile, highly productive.
   Sentence:
   * The teeming tropics, rank with vegetation.
   Synonyms: Swarming, Fruitful, Fecund, Abounding.
   
   
5. TEMERITY: Unwise or reckless boldness.
   Sentence:
   * Leaped into battle with thoughtless temerity.
   Synonyms: Audacity, Presumptuousness, Effrontery, Rashness;
   (adj.) Temerarious, Foolhardy, Venturesome.
   Antonyms: Prudence, Circumspection, Wariness.
   
   
6. TEMPORAL: Worldly, as opposed to spiritual; existing for a time only.
   Sentence:
   * A man preoccupied with temporal matters.
   Synonyms: Mundane, Secular, Civil.
   
   
7. TEMPORIZE: To delay or refuse to commit oneself in order to gain time.
   Sentence:
   * Temporized while his friends hurried to his aid.
   Synonym: Equivocate.
   
   
8. TENET: A principle of belief held as true.
   Sentence:
   * A tenet of religion which be maintained loyally.
   Synonyms: Creed, Doctrine, Dogma.
   
   
9. TENUOUS: Slender; not substantial; of slight importance.
   Sentence:
   * Clung desperately to his tenuous hope.
   
   
10. TRANQUIL: Calm; peaceful.
    Sentence:
    * A tranquil summer night.
    Synonyms: Placid, Serene.
    Antonyms: Perturbed, Ruffled, Turbulent.
    
    
11. TRANSGRESS: To break a law or command; to violate a moral principle; to overstep a moral bound or limit.
    Sentence:
    * Transgressed the bounds of decency; transgressed the law.
    
    
12. TREMULOUS: Trembling.
    Sentence:
    * Tremulous with fright.
    Synonym: Quivering.
    
    
13. TRIVIAL: Of little.- importance.
    Sentence:
    * A trivial offense.
    Synonym: Paltry.
    Antonyms: Gross, Momentous.
    
    
14. TRUCULENT (noun: TRUCULENCE): Cruel, fierce; harsh; threatening or intimidating savagely.
    Sentence:
    * A dispute marked by a truculent attitude on both sides.
    
    
15. TURGID:
    (1) Swollen, inflated.
    Sentence:
    * Turgid rivers overflowing their banks.
    Synonyms: Bloated, Distended.
    (2) Using big or high-sounding words.
    Sentence:
    * A turgid prose style.
    Synonyms: Pompous, Bombastic, Prolix