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AmLitVocabSem1
Mrs. Nixon Period E 12-19-12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Extremely difficult and laborious -burdensome; hard; onerous; toilsome | Arduous |
| Joking or jesting often inappropiately meant to be funny -clever; witty; humorous | Facetious |
| To mark with spots -spotted | Mottle |
| To join together; to use diligently; to enagage -handle; manipulate | Ply |
| Cowardly -timid; faint-hearted; spineless | Craven |
| A chain or shackle for the feet; something that confines | Fetters |
| To forbid; prohibit -ban; outlaw | Interdict |
| Minor weakness or character flaw -failing; fault; frailty | Foible |
| To sprout or flourish -blossom; expand; grow; thrive | Burgeon |
| A marsh; A difficult situation -bog; fen; mire; morass; swamp; dilemma | Quagmire |
| To gather and store -amass; acquire; gleam; harvest; reap | Garner |
| Crabby person -coot; crab; grouch | Curmudgeon |
| Abundant, plentiful -abounding; ample | Copious |
| Cliche, shallowed,superficial -banal; hackneyed | Trite |
| Hostility, antagonism, ill will -animosty | Enmity |
| A mass departure of people -departure; exit; retreat; withdrawal | Exodus |
| Unable to be penetrated -immune; unaffected; impassive | Impervious |
| Fixation or desire -attraction; infatuation; fascination | Obsession |
| Easily decieved or cheated -naive, trusting | Gullible |
| Person who takes blame for another's action -chump; doormat; fall guy | Scapegoat |
| Fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor | Zeal |
| Expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful -wistful; sorrowful; sad | Plaintive |
| A trick, stratagem, or artifice -deception | Ruse |
| Ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish -farcical; humorous; foolish | Zany |
| Ludicrous the misuse of similar words -Misuse; figure or speech | Malapropism |
| Excessively deferential; obident; servential -complacent; cringing; enslaved; menial; fawning | Obsequious |
| Exceedingly idealistic, unrealistic,impractical -dreaming; chimerical; utopian; romantic | Quixotic |
| To penetrate, or diffuse throughout; to saturate -charge; diffuse; drench; fill | Permeate |
| Dreamily, or wistfully thought -absorbed, attentive, cognitive, dreamy | Pensive |
| A statement that seems sself-contradictory, but in reality expresses a possible truth -Catch 22; anomaly; error | Paradox |
| To assemble or construct from separate parts; to make up with the intention of deceiving -produce; manufacture; devise; come up with | Fabricate |
| Worldly, humdrum, or everyday -ordinary; commonplace; routine | Mundane |
| Fearless and bold -valiant; daring; courageous | Intrepid |
| Deep and painful regret for wrongdoing -anguish; attrition; guilt | Remorse |
| Strong, stern, or fiece anger; vengeance or punishment as the consequence of anger -asperity; fury; hate | Wrath |
| A decline in physical or mental strength as a result of old age or disease -aged; decrepit; feeble | Senile |
| Wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult, chaos -anarchy; chaos; riot | Pandemonium |
| Distainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant -conceited; egotistical; snooty | Haughty |
| Overabundance; excess -surplus; plenty; deluge | Plethora |
| Lacking life, pleasure, or depth; lazy, lethargic, pleasance -listless; limp; spiritless | Lackadaisical |
| To display or obtude oneself to public notice; to show off -display, exhibit; unveil | Flaunt |
| Dependent on chance circumstances; unknown conditions, or uncertain developments; dangerous -risky; hazardous; unsafe | Precarious |
| An intentionally obscure statement; a riddle; someone or something that is puzzling or mysterious -mystery, puzzle, conundrum, dilemma, brainteaser; mind boggler | Enigma |
| A desire to cause harm or suffering; deep-seated ill will -malevolence; spite; animosity; resentment | Malice |
| Superior courage, ability, or skill -valor; gallantry; daring; bravery; intrepidity; expertise; proficiency | Prowess |
| A wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's homeland, or to one's family and friends; a settlemental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time -homesickness; longing; sentimentality | Nostalgia |
| A fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name -alias; nom de plume | Pseudonym |
| Any underhand inference with production; to injure or attack by sabotage -disable; vandalize; cripple | Sabotage |
| Tending to associate with others of one's kind, social; marked by or indicating a liking for companionship; socialable | Gregarious |
| A lack of agreement or harmony; a formal division in or separation from a church or other religious body -conflict; discordance | Schism |
| To observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight -boost; brag; flaunt | Gloat |
| An expectional interest in or admiration for oneself, especially one's physical appearance; having an undue fascination with oneself -vain; self-centered; self-regarding; egotistic | Narcissistic |
| Offensive to morality or decency; indecent, depraved, abominable, disgusting, repulsive -atrocious, bawdy, foul, horrible, impure | Obscene |
| Portending evil or harm; forebording, threatening, inauspicious -sinister; treatening; apocalyptic, promising | Ominous |
| Worn and exhausted from anxiety, hunger or fatigue -careworn; drawn; gaunt; wasted; hollow eyed; drained; pinched | Haggard |
| Debatable and therefore unresolved; to bring up for discussion -arguable; disputable; questionable; doubtful; raise; pose; put forward | Moot |
| A person who deserts one cause or group for another -turncoat; tratior; defector; deserter | Renegade |
| To sneak; to lie hidden or in wait -skulk; prowl; slink; lotiter | Lurk |
| Something left to a person in a will; something handed down from the past -bequest; inheritance; endowment; gift; present | Legacy |
| Unwarranted favoritism shown to relatives or friends by someone in hig office -partisanship; bias; partiality; patronage | Nepotism |
| A persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it -anxiety; fear; repulsion; hatred | Phobia |
| To tear down; demolish; to shave or scrape off -blow down; destroy; wipe out | Raze |
| To strive in competition or rivalry with another; to put forward in competition or rivalry -challenge; oppose; play off | Vie |
| relating to a parish as a unit of local government; of or relating to a church parish -illiberal; little; sectarian | Parochial |
| variegated in color; composed of diverse often incongruous elements -eclectic; rag-tag | Motley |
| Taking something that you don't have a right to; employ wrongfully -annex; seize; take | Usurp |
| To expose to danger or risk -adventure; compromise; hazard | Jeopardize |
| A predicament with no obvious solution -deadlock; gridlock; halt | Impasse |
| Capable of being held or maintained -defendable; defensible | Tenable |
| To lay out conditions for an agreement -negotiate; specify | Stipulate |
| The highest point or peak -height; summit | Zenith |
| Highly disrespectful toward what is sacred -blasphemous; profane | Sacrilegious |
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