| Vocabulary Word |
Synonyms |
| 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 |
