session-19

playing it down

• disparaging: he didn't accomplish a thing - he was just a victim of good fortune.

  eg: They were disparaging Truman's achievement

play it safe

• equivocating

  eg: He was equivocating.

enjoying the little things

• titillate: giving momentarily happiness (tickle)

  eg: They titillate you.

playing it way up

• adulate: showing someone ingratiating, almost servile attention, worship and flatter them fulsomely

  eg: They adulate such celebrities

accentuating the negative

• proscribing: forbidding

  The doctor is proscribing harmful items in your diet

accentuating the affirmative

• obviate (verb): remove (a need or difficulty)

  eg: Your characteristic and temperament obviate such fears.

playing it wrong

• militate: neurotic people unconsciously wish to fail (something which works against [you])

  eg: It militate against success

playing it dirty

• maligning: slander

  He's maligning everyone.

giving the benefit of any doubt

• condone: forgive

  eg: you condone them

changing hostility

• placate: change hostility to friendliness

  eg: You try to placate him

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Helping Words

• resentment: bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly.

• polygamous: having more than one mate.

• infidelity: the action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse or other sexual partner.

• accentuate: make more noticeable or prominent

• fulsomely: complementary or flattering to an an excessive degree

• servile: having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others

• ingratiating: get favour by flattering or pleasing

• ravenous: extremely hungry

• gustatory (adj): concerned with tasting or the sense of taste

• apologists: a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial

• cushy: (a job or situation) undemanding, easy, or secure

• ballot: voting system

• tangible (noun, adj): perceptible by touch. clear & definite; real

• slander (noun, verb): defame

• vague: of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning