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 Day-15.

 

01.   Amnesty.

Meaning: The act of releasing or protecting a person or persons from prosecution for wrongdoings.

Synonyms	Antonyms
pardon, reprieve, immunity, Acquittal.	penalty, punishment, retribution, Conviction.

Example sentences:

• ·     The amnesty of the 4th Brumaire of the year IV.
• ·     Charles granted the city a full amnesty, and confirmed its liberties and privileges.

02.   Amoral.

Meaning: Someone who does not care if his actions are right or wrong.

Actions that show a lack of care about what is morally right.

Synonyms	Antonyms
ill-gotten, unmoral, unstraightforward, Ill-got.	controlled, moral, innocent, chaste,

Example sentences:

·        Lando, amoral but not evil, escapes the Imperials with Leia in the Millennium Falcon.

·        Amoral society will destroy itself.

 

03. Amuck.

Meaning: behave uncontrollably and disruptively.

Synonyms	Antonyms
runaway, uncontrolled, out-of-hand, control.	sane calmly, collectedly, composedly.

Example sentences:

• Drunkenness is rare, but they are passionate, and running amuck is frequent among them
• .This here's the phone number of the current muck amuck.

 

04. Anachronism.

Meaning: a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.

Synonyms	Antonyms
misplacement prolepsis solecism chronological error	fresh, new, contemporary, Current.

Example sentences

•  The Order had now become a superfluous anachronism, it had still to be disposed of, and this was no easy task.
• 54 is usually treated as an anachronism, because of its occupation by the Jebusites, and Kirjathjearim.

 

05. Anathema.

Meaning: The definition of an anathema is a person or thing who is detested or hated.

Synonyms	Antonyms
phobia abhorrence bane	commendation, honey, compliment,

Example sentences: 

• Secular state education and the fresh, new, contemporary, current. "conscience clause" were anathema to him.
• In the hurry of first terror, the church struck Aristotle with the anathema launched against innovations in philosophy. 

 

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