Meaning: Antithetical means directly opposed. mutually incompatible or exact opposite. It is used as an adjective usually followed by “to”.
Origin: The term entered English in the late 16th Century from Greek antithetikos meaning “contrasting” from antithetos ‘opposed, from antitithenai ‘set against (anti against + tithenai to place).
Usage: He has a viewpoint that is antithetical to what his friends have.
What he practises is antithetical to what he preaches.
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Meaning : This adjective refers to the aspect of travelling around to different places, usually due to work in more than one place.
Origin : From Old French word perypatetique, and directly from the Medieval Latin word peripateticus, meaning “pertaining to the disciples or philosophy of Aristotle”. Aristotle’s custom was to teach while strolling through the Lyceum, a school in Athens. Also from Greek peripatetikos, meaning “given to walking about” (especially while teaching), which derives from the word peripatein “walk up and down, walk about.
Example: She was a peripatetic architect-professor for most of her life.
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Meaning : The word veritable is used for emphasis, often to qualify a metaphor. It can be used to describe something as another, more exciting, unusual or interesting thing.
Origin : The word, which has been around since early in the 15th Century, has Anglo-French and Old French roots. The word veritable, meaning “true, real, truthful, valid”, is formed by combining verite with able. The word is believed to have probably been lost in the middle of the 17th Century. only to be re-borrowed or revived some time in the 1830s.
Usage : If you talk about cryptocurrencies to her, you will find that she is a veritable mine of information on the subject.
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Meaning : This English noun refers to the quality or state of being mild or gentle toward others.
Origin: The first-known use of this word can be traced back to 1548. It is derived from the Old French word ‘lenite’ or the Latin word ‘lenitat which means ‘gentleness”.
Example : Without a bit of lenity, the prosecutor announced his plan to seek the death penalty.
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Meaning: Expedient means convenient or immediately advantageous although possibly improper, that is with no regard for ethics. It is used as an adjective and as a noun. As a noun, it corresponds to something such as a method, measure or a strategy adopted to achieve a particular end.
Origin: The term entered Late Middle English in the 14th Century from the Latin verb expedire meaning “advantageous, fit for a purpose.” The noun meaning “something adopted in an exigency so as to achieve a desired result has been in use since the 1650s.
Usage: When something goes wrong, it is expedient to blame it on the leadership.
They considered it expedient not to pay the builder until he finished the work.
The latest announcement looks like a political expedient.
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Meaning : Torpor is a state of physical/mental inactivity or lethargy. Torpor appears to be an involuntary state that one enters into as the conditions dictate. The term can also refer to the time a hibernator spends at low body temperature, lasting days to weeks.
Origin: The term is a noun and it comes from the Latin torpere meaning “be numb, inactive or sluggish”. Its first-known use was in the 13th Century Middle English when it referred to intellectual lethargy. The term resurfaced in the early 17th Century to refer to both mental and physical sluggishness.
Usage : 1. Many animals survive extremely cold nights through torpor.
2. After over-eating at the function, I reached home and fell into a torpor.
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