Warm Up 12/11

BLASPHEMY: The act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; Profane talk.

SYNONYMS: Curse, Swearing ANTONYMS: Polite, Religious 

EXAMPLE: To say that a man is precisely what God has made him be is completely blasphemy.

Warm Up 12/9

TERSE: Sparing in the use of words; abrupt
SYNONYMS: Brief, Short ANTONYMS: Long, Continuous
EXAMPLE: I could tell by the terse speech that something was wrong with Tommy at the award ceremony tonight.

Warm Up 12/8

ABDOMEN: The part of the body of a vertebrate containing the digestive organs; the belly. In humans and other mammals, it is bounded by the diaphragm and the pelvis.
SYNONYMS: Stomach, Belly ANTONYMS: Arm, Leg
EXAMPLE: Kelly was having severe pains in her abdomen, so we went to the emergency room.

Warm Up 12/4

ASCRIBE: Attribute something to (a cause).

SYNONYMS: Assign to, Credit to ANTONYMS: Diminish, assist

EXAMPLE: He ascribed Billy's short temper to his massive migraine.

Warm Up 12/3

EMBROIL: Involve (someone) deeply into an argument, conflict, or difficult situation.
SYNONYMS: Entangle, Enmesh ANTONYMS: Dis-embarrass, disentangle
EXAMPLE: THey never understood one another, and never consulted together in hours of danger, save to embroil matter in politics as in war.

Warm Up 12/2

NULLIFY: Make legally void and null.
SYNONYMS: Invalidate, Void ANTONYMS: Valid, Useful
EXAMPLE: The people want to nullify that bill, seeing how it would cause trouble to most of them.

Warm Up 12/1

METE: Dispense or allot justice, a punishment, or harsh treatment.
SYNONYMS: Allot, Allocate ANTONYMS: Hold, Keep
EXAMPLE: The king would sit to mete out justice, for he murdered a man.