English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'T'
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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'T'
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TANGIBLE: Real; actual.
Sentence:
* Tangible gains which may be seen. and counted.
Synonyms: Material, Veritable, Perceptible, Substantial.
- TANTAMOUNT: Equivalent.
Sentence:
* An act that is tantamount to treason.
- 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.
- TEEMING: In abundance, fertile, highly productive.
Sentence:
* The teeming tropics, rank with vegetation.
Synonyms: Swarming, Fruitful, Fecund, Abounding.
- 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.
- TEMPORAL: Worldly, as opposed to spiritual; existing for a time only.
Sentence:
* A man preoccupied with temporal matters.
Synonyms: Mundane, Secular, Civil.
- TEMPORIZE: To delay or refuse to commit oneself in order to gain time.
Sentence:
* Temporized while his friends hurried to his
aid.
Synonym: Equivocate.
- TENET: A principle of belief held as true.
Sentence:
* A tenet of religion which be maintained loyally.
Synonyms: Creed, Doctrine, Dogma.
- TENUOUS: Slender; not substantial; of slight importance.
Sentence:
* Clung desperately to his tenuous hope.
- TRANQUIL: Calm; peaceful.
Sentence:
* A tranquil summer night.
Synonyms: Placid, Serene.
Antonyms: Perturbed, Ruffled, Turbulent.
- 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.
- TREMULOUS: Trembling.
Sentence:
* Tremulous with fright.
Synonym: Quivering.
- TRIVIAL: Of little.- importance.
Sentence:
* A trivial offense.
Synonym: Paltry.
Antonyms: Gross, Momentous.
- TRUCULENT (noun: TRUCULENCE): Cruel, fierce; harsh; threatening or intimidating savagely.
Sentence:
* A dispute marked
by a truculent attitude on both sides.
- 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
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