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| 5687327963 | SENTENCE: CHIASMUS | Chiasmus is a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. "Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You." "Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?" "One should eat to live not live to eat." Notice that the second half of the above mentioned sentence is an inverted form of the first half both grammatically and logically. In the simplest sense, the term chiasmus applies to almost all "criss-cross" structures and this is the concept that is common these days. In its strict classical sense, however, the function of chiasmus is to reverse grammatical structure or ideas of sentences given that the same words and phrases are not repeated. | 0 | |
| 5687349551 | ambulatory | adjective relating to or adapted for walking; able to walk; relating to patients who are able to walk; movable; mobile. "an ambulatory ophthalmic service" "an ambulatory patient" noun a place for walking, especially an aisle around the apse or a cloister in a church or monastery. | 1 | |
| 5687856205 | brazen | adjective - bold and without shame. "he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance" synonyms: bold, shameless, unashamed, unabashed, unembarrassed - made of brass. - harsh in sound. "the music's brazen chords" verb to endure an embarrassing or difficult situation by behaving with apparent confidence and lack of shame. synonyms: put on a bold front, stand one's ground, be defiant, be unrepentant, be unabashed "we were shaking in our boots, but we brazened it out" | 2 | |
| 5687863361 | din | noun - a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise. "the fans made an awful din" synonyms: noise, racket, rumpus, ruckus, cacophony, babel, hubbub, tumult, uproar, commotion, clatter verb - to make (someone) learn or remember something by constant repetition. "the doctrine that has been dinned into all our heads" synonyms: instill, inculcate, drive, drum, hammer, drill, ingrain - to make a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise. "the sound dinning in my ears was the telephone ringing" synonyms: blare, blast, clang, clatter, crash, clamor "the sound dinning in my ears" | 3 | |
| 5687863362 | ennui | noun a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement. synonyms: boredom, tedium, listlessness, lethargy, lassitude, languor, weariness, enervation | 4 | |
| 5687863363 | exonerate | verb - (especially of an official body) to absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing, especially after due consideration of the case. "the court-martial exonerated me" synonyms: absolve, clear, acquit, find innocent, discharge; exculpate "the inquiry exonerated them" - to release someone from (a duty or obligation). synonyms: release, discharge, free, liberate | 5 | |
| 5687866915 | inscrutable | adjective impossible to understand or interpret. "Guy looked blankly inscrutable" synonyms: enigmatic, mysterious, unreadable, inexplicable, unexplainable, incomprehensible, impenetrable, unfathomable, unknowable | 6 | |
| 5687870714 | prognosticate | verb to foretell or prophesy (an event in the future). synonyms: forecast, predict, prophesy, foretell, foresee, forewarn of "economists were prognosticating financial Armageddon" | 7 | |
| 5687870715 | schism | noun - a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief. synonyms: division, split, rift, breach, rupture, break, separation, severance - the formal separation of a church into two churches or the secession of a group owing to doctrinal and other differences. | 8 | |
| 5687870716 | sedition | noun conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch. synonyms: rabble-rousing, incitement to rebel, subversion, troublemaking, provocation | 9 | |
| 5687870717 | wizened | adjective shriveled or wrinkled with age. "a wizened, weather-beaten old man" synonyms: wrinkled, lined, creased, shriveled (up), withered, weather-beaten, shrunken, gnarled, aged "their wizened faces said much about the hard lives they had endured" | 10 |
