Gooooooooooo Morning !!!!!!! Here is the vocab of the day ! Select your word and enhance your vocab as this is the best and simple way of VOCABULARY ENRICHMENT. Contentious (adjective) Meaning: causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial. Synonyms: controversial, disputable, debatable, and disputed Usage: The contentious issue of abortion. Antipathy (noun) Meaning: a deep-seated feeling of aversion. Synonyms: hostility, antagonism, animosity, aversion, animus Usage: His fundamental antipathy to capitalism. Countenance (noun) Meaning: a person's face or facial expression Synonyms: face, features, physiognomy, profile; facial expression Usage: His impenetrable eyes and inscrutable countenance give little away. Dogmatic (adjective) Meaning: inclined to lay down principles as undeniably true Synonyms: opinionated, peremptory, assertive, imperative, insistent Usage: She was not tempted to be dogmatic about what she believed. Apropos (adjective) Meaning: very appropriate to a particular situation Synonyms: appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apposite, apt Usage: The song feels apropos to a midnight jaunt. Raffish (adjective) Meaning: unconventional and slightly disreputable, especially in an attractive way Synonyms: rakish, jaunty, dapper, dashing, sporty, flashy; unconventional Usage: His cosmopolitan, raffish air. Vituperate (verb) Meaning: blame or insult (someone) in strong or violent language Synonyms: revile, rail against, inveigh against, fulminate against Usage: He vituperated against all presidents with equal gusto. Diffidence (noun) Meaning: modesty or shyness resulting from a lack of self-confidence Synonyms: shyness, bashfulness, unassertiveness, modesty, modestness Usage: He regretted his diffidence and awkwardness in large groups. Fulminate (verb) Meaning: express vehement protest Synonyms: protest, rail, rage, rant, thunder, storm, declaim, inveigh Usage: Ministers and preachers fulminated against the new curriculum. Assay (noun) Meaning: the testing of a metal or ore to determine its ingredients and quality Synonyms: evaluation, assessment, analysis, examination, test Usage: New plate was taxed when it was brought for assay. Turbid (adjective) Meaning: (of a liquid) cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter Synonyms: murky, muddy, thick; opaque, cloudy Usage: The turbid waters of the river. Erudite (adjective) Meaning: having or showing great knowledge or learning. Synonyms: learned, scholarly, well educated, knowledgeable Usage: He was so erudite that only men who were his equals in scholarship could understand him. Saturnine (adjective) Meaning: (of a person or their manner) gloomy. Synonyms: sombre, melancholy, melancholic, moody, miserable Usage: He was a rather saturnine individual who never spoke an unnecessary word. Abeyance (noun) Meaning: a state of temporary disuse or suspension. Synonyms: suspension, a state of suspension, a state of dormancy, a state of latency, a state of uncertainty Usage: The project was left in abeyance for the time being. Diaphanous (adjective) Meaning: (especially of fabric) light, delicate, and transluce Synonyms: sheer, fine, ultra-fine, delicate, light, lightweight, thin Usage: She wore a diaphanous dress of pale gold.