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Unit 9 Synonyms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abate | Diminish, decrease, subside, let up |
| Adulation | Adoration, idolization, hero-worship |
| Anathema | Malediction, imprecation, abomination |
| Astute | Acute, sagacious, judicious, wily |
| Avarice | Cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness |
| Culpable | Guilty, delinquent, peccant, blameworthy |
| Dilatory | Stalling, slow, tardy, laggard |
| Egregious | Glaring, flagrant, blatant |
| Equivocate | To talk out of both sides of one's mouth, palter, hedge |
| Evanescent | ephemeral, transient, transitory |
| Irresolute | Indecisive, vacillating, wavering |
| Nebulous | Hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, opaque, indeterminate |
| Novice | Neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice |
| Penury | Destitution, indigence |
| Pretentious | Ostentatious, inflated |
| Recapitulate | Review, summarize, go over |
| Resuscitate | Revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivate |
| Slovenly | Unkempt, slatternly, lax |
| Supposition | Assumption, presumption, hypothesis |
| Torpid | Lethargic, languid |