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Vocab set 4
Test for Friday
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aesthetic (adj.) Ex. He is considered aesthetic because he loves beauty and the arts. | Def: Relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art Syn: artistic, creative, inventive Anto: ugly, displeasing, unattractive |
| aloof (adj.) Ex. The woman remained aloof, separating herself from everyone else | Def: apart; indifferent Syn: detached, incurious, unconcerned Anto: integrated, friendly |
| archaic (adj.) Ex. Words such as thou, which is no longer in the English dictionary, are archaic | Def: antiqued or old; something that is out of use Syn: ancient, antique, old, obsolete, venerable Anto: complementary, modern |
| assuage (verb) Ex. 1. Your kind words should assuage her feelings. Ex. 2. The medicine should assuage his pain | Def: to ease, to mitigate; to make less painful or burdensome, to calm Syn: allay, alleviate, lighten, calm, soothe Anto: to irritate, to intensify |
| belie (verb) Ex. Her first words appeared to belie all the wonderful things I had heard about her. | Def: to contradict; to give a false impression Syn: lie, contradict Anto: to support, to agree with |
| contentious (adj.) Ex. My contentious child will not listen to any form of reason. | Def: quarrelsome, stirring controversy Syn: bellicose, belligerent, pugnacious Anto: congenial, harmonious |
| daunt (verb) Ex. I am not daunted by your threats. | Def: to intimidate; to dismay Syn: intimidate, dismay Anto: to hearten |
| debilitate (verb) Ex. I was debilitated by my bout with pneumonia. | Def: to weaken; to enfeeble Syn: sap, weaken Anto: to invigorate |
| discord (noun) Ex. There is a lot of discord in the nation over the issue of abortion. | Def: lack of agreement, tension, strife Syn: contention, dissension, variance Anto: harmony, agreement |
| dissemination (noun) Ex. The dissemination of these ideas can best be achieved through television | Def: the act of spreading widely, scattering Syn: distribution, scattering, spreading Anto: consolidation |
| dogmatic (adj.) | Def: strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner Syn: dictatorial, doctrinaire, magisterial, oracular Anto: unopinionated, wishy-washy |
| duplicity (noun) Ex. His duplicity was exposed when the girl he was seeing found out he was married. | Def: hypocrisy; double dealing Syn: hypocrisy, fraud Anto: sincerity, single mindlessness |
| egocentric (adj.) Ex. Egocentric people rarely show any concern for others. | Def: to be self centered; someone who is selfish Syn: self centered, selfish Anto: modest, selfless |
| euphemism (noun) Ex. People frequently use a euphemism for the word "died". They commonly say someone "passed away". | Def: substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive Syn: |
| gluttonous (adj.) Ex. I am so gluttonous that I would have great difficulty dieting | Def: greedy for food and drink Syn: rapacious, ravenous, voracious Anto: temperate |
| mundane (adj.) Ex. I dont know who you are and I dont know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I tell you I have no money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long carrer, skills that ma | Def: to be very ordinary or commonplace Syn: banal, ordinary, commonplace, Anto: unusual, outstanding |
| ominous (adj.) Ex. The ominous clouds were harbingers of the tornados | Def: to be very threatening Syn: threatening, dangerous, fateful, portentous Anto: harmless, non-threatening |
| petulance (noun) Ex. Petulance is sometimes the trait of a child who is not getting his way. | Def: unreasonable touchiness or irritability Syn: irritability Anto: serenity |
| pompous (adj.) Ex. It is very pompous of him to believe that his ideas should always receive the first consideration. | Def: exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance, bombastic Syn: ostentatious, pretentious Anto: humble, meek |
| precocious (adj.) Ex. A child prodigy is a young person who is very precocious. | Def: exceptionally early in development or occurrence Syn: advanced, ahead of time, early developed Anto: backward |
| slothful (adj) Ex. That student is so slothful that he has never done any of his homework assignments. | Def: to be very lazy or indolent Syn: bovine Anto: industrious |
| trivia (noun) Ex. The English teacher is looking for substance, not trivia in themes. | Def: insignificant matters Syn: None Anto: important matters |
| verbose (adj.) Ex. That professor is so verbose that it takes him an hour to cover material that should take fifteen minutes. | Def: to be very wordy or talkative Syn: wordy, talkative Anto: terse |
| virulent (adj.) Ex. The doctor prescribed a lot fo medication to arrest the virulent infection | Def: to be very poisonous or hateful Syn: deadly, poisonous, hateful Anto: harmless, not poisonous |
| volatile (adj.) Ex. Because of his volatile temper one must use caution in dealing with him. | Def: quickly changeable, easily vaporized Syn: None Anto: static, unchangeable |
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