1. “Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.”
Sentence:
Synonym: breach, crime
Trespass: an unlawful act causing injury to a person, property or rights
“Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.”
Etymology: ‘enter unlawfully’ – first attested in Scottish Parliament Laws (1455)
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Antonym: retreat

2. Synonym: ability, allowance
Sentence: the ship was blocked by a huge iceberg but had endurance to get through the ice to the island
“I have the endurance to keep bothering people”
Synonym: ability, allowance
Endurance: the ability or strength to continue or last despite stress or other conditions
“The morning was already hot beyond endurance, but the skies were cloudless and held no sign of rain.”
Etymology:
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Antonym: none

3. Etymology: 1555 from Cuba, Arawakan (Haiti) Chapter 31, Page 229
Sentence: All the farmers had to eat was the maize, and it didn’t even keep them full but they were so poor.
“the sun’s color was as pale as maize”
Synonym: corn, yellow
Maize: a pale yellow color (color of corn) “And when the rain comes, the maize will not reach to the height of a man.”
Etymology: 1555 from Cuba, Arawakan (Haiti)
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Antonym: none

4. Counsel: an instruction given to direct a judgment
Sentence: “the counsel decided to imprison the person that stole a woman’s purse.”
Synonym: advice, caution
Counsel: an instruction given to direct a judgment
“And while he was waiting he looked at the counselors who stood behind the chief, and he saw too that they were frowning and perplexed, an d that for this matter there was no counsel that they could give at all.”
Etymology: 1225 from O.Fr meaning ‘plan’
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Antonym: none

5. Synonym: abstraction, fantasy
Sentence: She could not wait until her birthday party that she couldn’t stop herself from his reveries. “I like to have reveries about games.”
Synonym: abstraction, fantasy
Reverie: a dreamy meditation; a daydream
“Kumalo shook himself out of his reverie”
Etymology: from resver to dream or wander
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Antonym: nightmare

6. Nostalgia: a desire to return in thought to a time in someone’s life
Sentence: “I always reverie about my nostalgia.”
Synonym: fond memories
Nostalgia: a desire to return in thought to a time in someone’s life
“He opened Msimangu’s letter, and read about all the happenings of Johannesburg and was astonished to find within himself a faint nostalgia for that great bewildering city.”
Etymology: 1770 – severe homesickness (considered as a disease)
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Antonym: none

7. Pang: a feeling of mental or emotional distress
Sentence: She was feeling a pang when she was told to keep on running laps.
Synonym: discomfort, stab
Pang: a feeling of mental or emotional distress
“Kumalo felt a pang of jealousy, for he had never earned ten pounds a month in all his sixty years.”
Etymology: 1770 – severe homesickness (considered as a disease)
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Antonym: tingle

8. Bereavement: to take something away by violence
Sentence:
Synonym: affliction, sorrow
Bereavement: to take something away by violence
“But there came a picture to him of the house of bereavement, of all the cars of the white people that would be there…”
Etymology:
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Antonym: none

9. Intimation: to make something known; announce
Sentence: The intimation of the opening of the shop was announced yesterday
Synonym: announce, notice
Intimation: to make something known; announce
“It happened in that fashion that men call illusion, or the imaginings of people overwrought, or an intimation of the divine.”
Etymology: 1538 – ‘action of making known from M.Fr.
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Antonym: none

10. Abundant: something well and richly supplied
Sentence:
Synonym: full, generous
Abundant: something well and richly supplied
“Gut id he was awake, then oh Christ of the abundant mercy, be with him”
Etymology:
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Antonym: rare, lacking