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Vocab Unit 1 Syn/Ant
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adulterate | SYN- contaminate, pollute, sully. ANT- purify, purge, expurgate. |
| Ambidextrous | SYN- versatile, facile. ANT- clumsy, all thumbs, maladroit. |
| Augment | SYN- enlarge, supplement, amplify. ANT- decrease, diminish. |
| Bereft | SYN- bereaved. ANT- replete, well provided. |
| Deploy | SYN- station, organize. |
| Dour | SYN- harsh, bleak, forbidding, saturnine. ANT- cheery, inviting, genial. |
| Fortitude | SYN- resolve, steadfastness, mettle. ANT- fearfulness, timidity, fainttheartedness. |
| Gape | SYN- gawk, ogle. |
| Gibe | SYN(v)- ridicule, mock, deride, jeer. ANT(n)- compliment, praise. |
| Guise | SYN- costume, semblance, pretense. |
| Insidious | SYN- cunning, underhanded, perfidious. ANT- frank, ingenuous, aboveboard. |
| Intimation | SYN- clue, indication, inkling. |
| Opulent | SYN- rich, lavish, plentiful, abundant. ANT- poverty-stricken, wretched, destitute. |
| Pliable | SYN- supple, adaptable, resilient. ANT- rigid, inflexible, recalcitrant. |
| Reiterate | SYN- restate, rehash, recapitulate. |
| Stolid | SYN- impassive, phlegmatic. ANT- emotional, oversensitive, high-strung. |
| Tentative | SYN- provisional, inconclusive ANT- definite, conclusive, confirmed. |
| Unkempt | SYN- sloppy, disheveled, disordered, rough. ANT- well-groomed, tidy, neat, natty. |
| Verbatim | SYN- (adj)exact, (adv)precisely. ANT- (adj)paraphrased. |
| Warily | SYN- carefully, prudently, gingerly ANT- recklessly, heedlessly, incautiously |