GO TO INDEX English Vocabulary Words Start from Letter 'T'
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.
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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