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terça-feira, 15 de janeiro de 2013

Word of the day: Ravish


Ravish: arrebatar, cativar, encantar, raptar, violar, desonrar, pilhar, saquear

Synonyms: assault, force, outrage, rape, violate

“….tales of Caribbean pirates who abducted fair maidens and ravished them without mercy…”
“Travelers have long been ravished with wonder and awe by the immensity of the Great Pyramid at Giza.”

domingo, 20 de maio de 2012

Word of the day: Outrage


Outrage:  ultraje, afronta, injúria, indignidade, ofensa,  excesso, abuso, ultrajar, insultar, injuriar,  exceder-se,  abuser,  violar, estuprar
Synonyms: affront, barb, brickbat, cut, dart, dig, dis, epithet, gird, indignity, name, offense, insult, personality, poke, put-down, sarcasm, slap,slight, slur/ an act of violence or brutality
“Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims. He was 60.” www.washingtonpost.com)
Many people expressed outrage at the court's decision.”(www.merriam-webster.com)