7/24/2019 Less Common Words

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Less common words:

Show, present, describe: indicate, illustrate, depict

By contrast: nevertheless, nonetheless,regardless of, irrespective of,

notwithstanding,

Go up: grow, escalate, elevate, augment, proliferate, multify

Go down: diminish, lessen, curtail, dwindle, shrink, subside, abate

Quickly: swiftly, speedily, promptly, posthaste, apace

Slowly: mildly, moderately, modestly, marginally, unhurriedly,

plodding, sluggishly

Increase remarkably: surge, take o, soar, shoot up, rocket, jump, leap,

boom, bounce

Decrease remarkably: plummet, slump, crash, sink, tumble, plunge

Go up and down: uctuate, vary(around), oscillate,swing

Stay the same: atten out, stagnate, lever o, plateau

Number of: amount of, uantity of,

ercentage: portion,proportion, fraction

!rom "#$% to "#&%: during(in) the !"#$s

!rom "#&% to "#&': during(in) the %rst half of the !"#$s

(he end of the period, lastly, )nally: eventually

Ne*t, then, after that: thereafter, afterwards, subseuently

!ollowed by: accompanied by, attended by

+bout, regarding, concerning: reference to, respecting, apropos of

!irst, in the )rst step, to beginstart with:initially, in the beginning, in the

early stages

eriod: term, phase, stage, session

Before: prior to, ahead of

Decrease by '%-: to be halved, bisect

Increase . times: uadruplicate, uadruple

Similarly: likewise , in the same way, identically

+t the same time: simultaneously, concurrently