example-cards.json

[
    {
        "_id": {
            "$oid":"59dac7b147c9429bff9ba9b3"
        },
        "word": "Aesthetic reading",
        "synonym": "artistic",
        "antonym": "Efferant Reading",
        "general_sense": "a term to describe reading for pleasure",
        "example_usage": "A readers response that is driven by personal feelings from the transactionbetween the reader with text Louise Rosenblatt 1978 term"
    },
    {
        "word": "Alliteration",
        "synonym": "allegory",
        "antonym": "free verse poetry",
        "general_sense": "repetition of the initial sound (s) or letters in a group of words.",
        "example_usage": "Often found in prose or poetry: Craig loved his fuzzy furry ferret."
    },
    {
        "word": "Automaticity",
        "synonym": "Fluency",
        "antonym": "difficult",
        "general_sense": "rapid and fluent recognition of words requiring only a minumm of effort and attention",
        "example_usage": "Automatic processing of information from text including comprehension, decoding words and other tasks"
    },
    {
        "word": "Cloze",
        "synonym": "\"Fill in the blank\"",
        "antonym": "No words are missing from the text",
        "general_sense": "procedure used to measure comprehension or text difficulty in which a person must supply elements that have been systematically deleted from the text",
        "example_usage": "I felt _____(good)(bad) about my first day in school."
    },
    {
        "word": "Obstinate",
        "synonym": "Cantankerous",
        "antonym": "flexible",
        "general_sense": "stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so",
        "example_usage": "the obstinate problem of unemployment"
    },
    {
        "word": "Plethora",
        "synonym": "Excess, plenty",
        "antonym": "Lack, scarcity, few",
        "general_sense": "overabundance",
        "example_usage": "There was a plethora of rubber duckies in the pool."
    },
    {
        "word": "Abecedarian",
        "synonym": "elementary, basal, basic",
        "antonym": "advanced, complex",
        "general_sense": "one who is learning the alphabet",
        "example_usage": "an abecedarian approach to historical study"
    },
    {
        "word": "Bedizen",
        "synonym": "adorn, beautify",
        "antonym": "blemish, deface, spoil",
        "general_sense": "to dress or adorn gaudily",
        "example_usage": "an elderly actress bedizening herself with makeup and jewelry"
    },
    {
        "word": "Atavistic ",
        "synonym": "ancestral, throwback",
        "antonym": "Futuristic",
        "general_sense": "a trait or character typical of an ancestral form",
        "example_usage": "His portrait suggested atavistic qualities."
    },
    {
        "word": "effervescent",
        "synonym": "merry, lively, sparkling",
        "antonym": "flat, bland, dull",
        "general_sense": "to bubble, hiss, and foam as gas escapes\nto show liveliness or exhilaration",
        "example_usage": "History isn’t a flawless guide, but periods of economic and political dislocation can actually inspire an efflorescence of culture."
    },
    {
        "word": "Obstreperous",
        "synonym": "racous, rowdy",
        "antonym": "compliant, amenable",
        "general_sense": "marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness",
        "example_usage": "an obstreperous crowd protesting the government's immigration policy"
    },
    {
        "word": "hoary",
        "synonym": "mature, archaic",
        "antonym": "modern, new, recent",
        "general_sense": "gray or white with or as if with age extremely old",
        "example_usage": "hoary oak trees with dripping moss and gnarled limbs shaded us from the sun"
    },
    {
        "word": "puckish",
        "synonym": " mischievious, whimsical",
        "antonym": "grim, grave",
        "general_sense": "tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness",
        "example_usage": "The puckish boys loved practical jokes."
    },
    {
        "word": "Tenebrous",
        "synonym": "gloomy, murky",
        "antonym": "bright, luminous",
        "general_sense": "being without light or without much light",
        "example_usage": "in the midst of those tenebrous days Thomas Paine penned the immortal words “These are the times that try men's souls"
    }
]