Saturday, November 4, 2000
W O R D  P O W E R

Apprehend — (ap-pre-hend) 1. To arrest or seize. 2. comprehend.

Synonyms: 1. catch, capture. 2. understand, realise, know, sense.

Antonyms: 1. release, free, liberate, discharge. 2. misunderstand, misconceive.

— 1. The police will definitely be able to apprehend the terrorists before dawn.

— 2. Youngsters seldom apprehend the gravity of law.

Churlish — (churl-ish) rude or bad tempered.

Synonyms: Sullen, quarrelsome, irritable, uncivil, boorish, impolite.

Antonyms: Pleasant, agreeable, amiable, polite, courteous mannerly.

— Clare’s grandmother gets very offended by his churlish behaviour.

Disarray: (dis-ar-ray) a state when things or people are not properly organised (not in order).

Synonyms: Disorder, disarrangement, confusion, chaos, jumble, clutter.

Antonyms: Order, arrangement.

— The thieves left my neighbour’s house in complete disarray.

 


Galore:
(ga-lor) in great quantity.

Synonyms: Abundance, aplenty.

Antonyms: Scarcity, shortage.

We have mangoes galore this year.

Assertive — (as-sert-ive) having a strong and confident personality.

Synonyms: Forceful, affirmative, confident, insistent.

Antonyms: Reserved, shy, meek, timid, uncertain, diffident.

— A good leader must be assertive.

Discover

From the jumbled words find more synonyms of churlish:

1. netpluat

2. oibilus

3. nchuuot

4. atgarorn

5. tipumedn

6. tisnoeln

7. wpsaihs

8. urnaocros

9. ubursqe

10. roguhcy

Looking back

Yellow Journalism was a name given to the sensational journalism of America which developed around 1880. The term was derived from the appearance of a child in a yellow dress (The Yellow Kid), as a central figure in a cartoon, in the New York Times in 1895. This was an experiment in colour printing, designed to attract purchasers.

Yellow Backs were cheap editions of novels. They were so called because they were bound in yellow boards. They were the ordinary ‘railway novels’ of the seventies and the eighties of last century.

Ponder

If I am faithful to the duties of the present. God will provide for the future. — Bedell.

Score card

Petulant, bilious, uncouth, arrogant, impudent, insolent, waspish, rancorous, brusque, grouchy.

— Illa Vij