English III Honors
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| amnesty | forgiveness or absolution | ||||
| autonomy | home rule | ||||
| axiomatic | taken for granted | ||||
| blazon | broadcast, trumpet | ||||
| caveat | admonition, word to the wise | ||||
| equitable | right, reasonable, evenhanded | ||||
| extricate | disentangle, extract, disengage | ||||
| filch | pilfer purloin, swipe, peculate | ||||
| flout | scoff at, sneer at, snicker at, scorn | ||||
| fractious | refractory, recalcitrant, peevish, querulous, petulant | ||||
| precept | principle, maxim, axium, caveat | ||||
| salutary | salubrious, curative | ||||
| scathing | searing, harsh, ferocious, savage, vitrolic, scurrilous | ||||
| scourge | flog, beat; bane, plague, pestilence | ||||
| sepulchral | doleful, lugubrious, mortuary | ||||
| soporific | narcotic, anesthetic | ||||
| straitlaced | highly conventional, overly strict, stuffy, stringent | ||||
| transient | impermanent, ephemeral, evanescent | ||||
| unwieldy | cumbersome, bulky, clumsy, impractical | ||||
| vapid | insipid, lifeless, colorless, sopofific |
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Created by:
fairuhhh bui
on 2007-10-04