🌀 Phantonym :

a word that looks it means a particular thing, but in fact means something different.

( phantom + antonym )

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1️⃣ Fulsome : ( adjective )
full·some ➡️ \ˈfu̇l-səm\

Meaning :
❌ full
✅ disgusting, excessive, insincere, adulatory, gushing, gushy, hagiographic (also hagiographical), oily, oleaginous, soapy, unctuous

Example(s) :
• The player's fulsome praise for the coach showed just how hard he was trying to be named captain of the team.
• grateful survivors who were fulsome in their praise of the rescue team

2️⃣ Noisome : ( adjective )
noi·some ➡️ \ˈnȯi-səm\

Meaning :
❌ noisy
✅ smelly, unhealthful , insalubrious, unhealthy, noxious, sickly, unwholesome

Example(s) :
• Noisome vapours arise from the mud left in the docks.

3️⃣ Enormity : ( noun )
enor·mi·ty ➡️ \i-ˈnȯr-mə-tē\

Meaning :
❌ enormous
✅ wickedness, monstrous , atrociousness, atrocity, badness, depravedness, depravity, diabolicalness, evilness, heinousness, hideousness, monstrosity, sinfulness, vileness

Example(s) :
• We were shocked at the enormity of the crime.
• They didn't fully grasp the enormity of their decision.

4️⃣ Disinterested : ( adjective )
dis·in·ter·est·ed ➡️ \(ˌ)dis-ˈin-trə-stəd; -ˈin-tə-ˌre-, -tə-rə-, -tər-; -ˈin-ˌtre-\

Meaning :
❌ uninterested , indifferent, bored.
✅ unbiased, objective, impartial apathetic, casual, complacent, incurious, insensible, insouciant, nonchalant, perfunctory, pococurante, unconcerned, uncurious

Example(s) :
•  A lawyer should provide disinterested advice.


5️⃣ Enervate : ( verb )
en·er·vate ➡️ \ˈe-nər-ˌvāt\

Meaning :
❌ energize
✅ weaken, castrate, damp, dampen, deaden, desiccate, devitalize, dehydrate, geld, lobotomize, petrify

Example(s):
• A lifetime of working in dreary jobs ,had enervated his very soul.
• The surgery really enervated me for weeks afterwards.

6️⃣ Fortuitous : ( adjective )
for·tu·itous ➡️ \fȯr-ˈtü-ə-təs, -ˈtyü-, fər-\

Meaning :
❌ lucky, fortunate
✅ happening by chance, providential

Example(s) :
• His presence there was entirely fortuitous.
• You could not have arrived at a more fortuitous time.

7️⃣ Penultimate : ( adjective ) pen·ul·ti·mate ➡️ \pi-ˈnəl-tə-mət\

Meaning :
❌ ultra ultimate
✅ before the last ,next to the last

Example(s) :
• The penultimate syllable of the word.


8️⃣ Restive : ( adjective )
res·tive ➡️ \ˈres-tiv\

Meaning :
❌ restful
✅ stubborn, balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, disobedient, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)

Example(s) :
• The restive horse threw its head and refused to move when the rider urged it forward.
• She spent a restive night worrying about the next day's exam.

9️⃣ Testy : ( adjective )
tes·ty ➡️ \ˈtes-tē\

Meaning :
❌ related to test or exam
✅ choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, fiery, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snarky, snippety, snippy, stuffy, irritable, waspish

Example :
• It had been a long day and Sarah was getting a little testy.

1️⃣0️⃣ Inflammable : ( adjective )
in·flam·ma·ble ➡️ \in-ˈfla-mə-bəl\

Meaning :
❌ nonflammable
✅ burnable, combustive, fiery, flammable, ignitable (also ignitible), combustible, touchy

Example(s) :
• Some pajamas are made of inflammable material, so be careful.

1️⃣1️⃣ Suffrage : ( noun )
suf·frage ➡️ \ˈsə-frij, sometimes -fə-rij\

Meaning :
❌ suffering
✅ ballot, enfranchisement, franchise, vote

Example(s) :
• Even as the world entered the 21st century, some nations still did not permit women's suffrage.

1️⃣2️⃣ Phosphene : ( noun )
phos·phene ➡️ \ˈfäs-ˌfēn\

Meaning :
❌ a phosphorus compound
✅ spots of light seen after rubbing eyes

Example(s):
• I hate it when I rub my eyes and I’m left with phosphenes for ages afterwards.

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1️⃣ Fulsome : ( adjective )
full·some ➡️ \ˈfu̇l-səm\

Meaning :
❌ full
✅ insincere

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2️⃣ Noisome : ( adjective )
noi·some ➡️ \ˈnȯi-səm\

Meaning :
❌ noisy
✅ smelly, unhealthful

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3️⃣ Enormity : ( noun )
enor·mi·ty ➡️ \i-ˈnȯr-mə-tē\

Meaning :
❌ enormous
✅ wickedness

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4️⃣ Disinterested : ( adjective ) dis·in·ter·est·ed ➡️ \(ˌ)dis-ˈin-trə-stəd

Meaning :
❌ uninterested
✅ unbiased

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5️⃣ Enervate : ( verb )
en·er·vate ➡️ \ˈe-nər-ˌvāt\

Meaning :
❌ energize
✅ weaken

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6️⃣ Fortuitous : ( adjective )
for·tu·itous ➡️ \fȯr-ˈtü-ə-təs, -ˈtyü-, fər-\

Meaning :
❌ lucky, fortunate
✅ happening by chance

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7️⃣ Penultimate : ( adjective ) pen·ul·ti·mate ➡️ \pi-ˈnəl-tə-mət\

Meaning :
❌ ultra ultimate
✅ before the last ,next to the last

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8️⃣ Restive : ( adjective )
res·tive ➡️ \ˈres-tiv\

Meaning :
❌ restful
✅ stubborn, balky

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9️⃣ Testy : ( adjective )
tes·ty ➡️ \ˈtes-tē\

Meaning :
❌ related to test or exam
✅ choleric, crabby, cranky

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1️⃣0️⃣ Inflammable :( adjective )
in·flam·ma·ble ➡️ \in-ˈfla-mə-bəl\

Meaning :
❌ nonflammable
✅ burnable, combustive, flammable

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1️⃣1️⃣ Suffrage : ( noun )
suf·frage ➡️ \ˈsə-frij, sometimes -fə-rij\

Meaning :
❌ suffering
✅ enfranchisement, franchise, vote

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1️⃣2️⃣ Phosphene : ( noun )
phos·phene ➡️ \ˈfäs-ˌfēn\

Meaning :
❌ a phosphorus compound
✅ spots of light seen after rubbing eyes

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🔅Get the/this show on the road 🔅

🔺informal

🔹Definition: to begin an activity that has been planned

🔶Example:

Come on, let's get this show on the road or we'll be late.

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🌐 Paroxysm :

noun [countable]
par‧ox‧ys‧m ➡️ /ˈpærəksɪzəm/ BrE AmE

🔳 Origin :
paroxysme, from Greek paroxysmos, from paroxynein 'to encourage into action', from oxys 'sharp'

🔲 Meaning(s) :

1️⃣ a sudden intense expression of strong feeling

🔺a paroxysm of laughter greeted the pratfall

🔹 Synonyms :
agony, blaze, burst, ebullition, eruption, explosion, fit, flare, flare-up, flash, flush, gale, gush, gust, outburst, spasm, storm

🔶 Related Words :
blowup, grouch, rage, tantrum; ecstasy, rapture, transport; delirium, firestorm, frenzy, furor

2️⃣ a violent disturbance (as of the political or social order)

🔺Darwin's introduction of the theory of evolution created paroxysms in both religion and science that are still being felt today.

🔹 Synonyms :
bouleversement, cataclysm, earthquake, convulsion, storm, tempest, tumult, upheaval, uproar

🔶 Related Words :
insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, overthrow, overturn, rebellion, revolt, revolution, subversion, unrest, uprising, upset; fit, seizure, spasm; eruption, flare-up, outbreak, outburst; bluster, bobbery, bustle, coil, commotion, furor, furore, fuss, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, pandemonium, rout, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, squall, stew, stir, to-do, turmoil, welter, williwaw; quaking, rocking, shaking, trembling

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💠 ( 4 ) Homonym:

= two or more words that have the same sound or spelling but differ in meaning.

✨ Pronunciation :
/ˈhɒmənɪm, ˈhəʊ- $ ˈhɑː-, ˈhoʊ-/

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