drone

Day 75Level 2

drohn

lazy person

a male bee who does not work; lazy person

Part of Speech: noun

Synonyms:

parasite, idler, loafer

Antonyms:

workaholic, overachiever

Example Sentence:

Dave has become a drone at office playing computer games all day after his boss went on vacation.

Related Words

away from center

sen-TRIF-yuh-guhl

moving away from the center

to comfort

kuhn-SOHL

give comfort or sympathy to

shed leaves

dee-FOH-lee-eyt

to cause leaves to fall off

inattentive

dis-TRAY

absent minded or inattentive due to anxiety

history of a word

et-uh-MOL-uh-jee

study of origin and history of words

narrow-minded

IN-suh-lur

pertaining to islands; narrow-minded