English Questions: Antonyms and Synonyms PART-2

FRUSTRATE: To prevent (the attainment of an object); to defeat or render ineffectual – His scholastic progress was frustrated by a serious illness.
Synonyms: balk, thwart, foil, baffle, obstruct, discomfit.
Antonym: abet.

FULSOME: Disgustingly excessive – nauseated by fulsome praise.
Synonym – adulatory,bombastic, buttery, canting, cloying,coarse,extravagant,fawning,flattering,glib,grandiloquent,hypocritical.
Antonym – reasonable,sincere.

GARNISH: To trim or decorate – dishes garnished attractively with greens.
Synonyms: adorn, deck.
Synonym – decrease, divestment, plainness.

GENESIS: Origin – chemistry, which had its genesis in alchemy.
Synonym: inception.
Antonym – conclusion,end, finale,finish.

GESTICULATE: To make gestures, or indicate feelings by motions – gesticulated wildly to show his distress.
Synonym – communicate, intercommunicate.
Antonym – speak.