WORD MASTERS

WINDFALL

• Synonyms: benefit, godsend, blessing, benediction
• Antonyms: affliction, evil, plague
• Meanings: something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing, something blown down by the wind, an unexpected, unearned or sudden gain of advantage, a piece of unexpected good fortune typically one that includes receiving a large amount of money.
• POS: noun
• E.x. Winning the lottery was an amazing windfall for the worker that was just fired.

PELT

• Synonyms: spank, leather, skin, hurry, batter
• Antonyms: creep, crawl, poke
• Meanings: a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument, the outer covering of an animal removed for its commercial value, to proceed or move quickly, to strike repeatedly
• POS: noun
• E.x. The little girl pelted them with snowballs.

UNKEMPT

• Synonyms: chaotic, cluttered, disorderly, sloppy
• Antonyms: dashing, neat, tidy
• Meanings: lacking in order neatness and often cleanliness, lacking the neatness in dress or person
• POS: adjective
• E.x. The room was very unkempt and messy.

SCUFFLE

• Synonyms: rassle, battle, conflict, clump
• Antonyms: breeze, glide, waltz
• Meanings: a physical dispute opposing individuals or groups, to move heavily or clumsily, to seize and attempt to unbalance one another for the purpose of achieving physical mastery
• POS: noun
• E.x. She was scuffling because her shoes were too big for her.

EBB

• Synonyms: decay, worsen, declination, lessen
• Antonyms: upswing, improve, escalate
• Meanings: a change to a lower state or level, to become worse or less of value, to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually
• POS: noun
• E.x. The towns money ebbed when all the malls closed.

SLIGHT

• Synonyms: slim, dwarfish, foolish, wimpy
• Antonyms: powerful, big, good
• Meanings: lacking bodily strength, lacking importance, of a size that is less than average, small in degree
• POS: adjective
• E.x. The slight girl smacked me surprisingly hard.

TIER

• Synonyms: species, classification, kind, league
• Antonyms: unequal, uneven, unsteady
• Meanings: one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic, any one of two or more competitors who tie one another, a worker who ties something, one of two or more layers one atop another
• POS: noun
• E.x. She made a 7 tiered cake.

MURMUR

• Synonyms: mumble, grumble, mutter, beef
• Antonyms: speak up, delight, rejoice
• Meanings: an expression of dissatisfaction pain or resentment, speech that is not clear enough to be understood, to express dissatisfaction pain or resentment usually tiresomely, to speak softly and unclearly
• POS: noun
• E.x. The class murmured when th teacher made a mistake.