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Today’s article title is: COVID-19: Herd immunity approach is ‘fallacy’, scientists bat for lockdowns
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FALLACY
Noun
Pronunciation: fal-uh-see
Meaning: a false idea or belief
Synonyms: delusion, error, falsehood, falsity, hallucination, illusion, misbelief, misconception, myth, untruth
Antonyms: truth, verity
Usage: The belief that girls are poor at math is a fallacy
INEQUITY
Noun
Pronunciation: in-ek-wi-tee
Meaning: the state of being unfair or unjust
Synonyms: injustice, unfairness, unjustness
Antonyms: equity, fairness, justice
Usage: There is inequity at every level in society
Forms: Inequitable (adjective), Inequitably (adverb)
WANING
Verb
Pronunciation: weyn-ing
Meaning: to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually
Synonyms: abating, declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling
Antonyms: blossoming, flourishing, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, waxing
Usage: The brightness of the moon is waning
Forms: Waning (noun)
INEXTRICABLE
Adjective
Pronunciation: in-ik-strikay-buhl
Meaning: as in difficult, knotty/ impossible to disentangle or separate.
Synonyms: difficult, knotty, hopeless, inexplicable, insoluble, insolvable, unexplainable, unresolvable, unsolvable/ inseparable
Antonyms: answerable, explainable, explicable, resolvable, soluble, solvable, analyzable, decipherable/ separable
Usage: This is an inextricable situation/ That is an inextricable part of our culture
Forms: Inextricably (adverb)
AMPLIFY
Verb
Pronunciation: am-pluh-fahy
Meaning: to make greater in size, amount, or number
Synonyms: accelerate, add (to), aggrandize, augment, boost, build up, compound, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, hype, increase, multiply, pump up, raise, stoke, supersize
Antonyms: abate, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, downsize, dwindle, lessen, lower, minify, reduce, subtract (from)
Usage: This will amplify the profits
Forms: Amplification (noun)
