Answers to 英文同义词：Match Up (07312008)

Correct answers:

copacetic admonitory plaintive endemic reverberating

resonant endemical warning mournful copasetic

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copacetic - Very satisfactory or acceptable; fine

Synonyms: copasetic, copesetic, copesettic

Usage: His smile said that everything was copacetic.

admonitory - Serving to warn.

Synonyms: monitory, warning, cautionary, exemplary

Usage: Paying as little regard to this admonitory cough, as to the significant gesture that had preceded it, the stranger pursued his questioning.

plaintive - Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholy.

Synonyms: mournful

Usage: A strain of plaintive music, played on stringed instruments, and flutes, recalled my attention to the hidden shrine.

endemic - Prevalent in or peculiar to a particular locality, region, or people.

Synonyms: endemical

Usage: The medical advisor spoke at length about the diseases endemic to the tropics.

reverberating - Characterized by reverberation.

Synonyms: resonating, resounding, reverberative, rolling, resonant

Usage: It was a sombre snowy afternoon, and the gas-lamps were lit in the big reverberating station.