Vocabulary Week 1

Strife: Use in Sentence

<in order to avoid family strife, the children spend equal time during the holidays with both of their grandmothers> <bitter strife between the two political factions>

Impractical: Part of Speech

Adjective

Impractical: Use in Sentence

Little sports cars are impractical for large families. He was a dreamy and impractical young man.

Strife: Part of Speech

Noun

Impending: Part of Speech

Verb

Strife: Definition

Very angry or violent disagreement between two or more people or groups, bitter sometimes violent conflict or dissension <political strife>, an act of contention : fight, struggle; exertion or contention for superiority; archaic: earnest endeavor.

Strife: Antonyms

accord, agreement, concord, concordance, harmony, peace

Impractical: Anytonyms

applicable, feasible, functional, operable, operational, practicable, practical, serviceable, ultrapractical, usable (also useable), useful, utilizable, workable

Strife: Synonyms

conflict, disaccord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissension (also dissention), dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, division, friction, infighting, inharmony, schism, discord, variance, war, warfare

Impractical: Synonyms

impracticable, inoperable, nonpractical, unserviceable, unusable, unworkable, useless

Impractical: Definition

not easy to do or use : not suitable for the situation, of a person : not sensible : not able to deal with practical matters effectively, not practical, not wise to put into or keep in practice or effect, incapable of dealing sensibly or prudently with practical matters