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Unit 3 lvl H
| Palabra | Definición | Sinónimo | Antónimo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condescend | to come down or stoop voluntarily to a lower lvl; to deal w/ ppl in a patronizing manner | deign | |
| Cozen | to trick/cheat/swindle | dupe, desirve, beguile, inveigle | |
| Enclave | an enclosed district/region/area inhabited by a particular group of ppl or having a special character | island, subgroup | |
| Forte | a person's strong point; what a person does best | gift, aptitude, speciality | weakness, shortcoming, foible |
| Gratis | (adj) free; (adv) w/o charge | (adj) on the house; (adv) freely | (adv) for a price |
| Icon | a representation/image of a sacred personage, often considered sacred itself; an image/pic; a symbol; a graphic symbol on a computer monitor display; an object of blind devotion | emblem, idol | |
| Interstice | a small, narrow space 'tween small things or parts of things | gap, slot, crevice, interval, lacuna | |
| Macrocosm | the universe considered as a whole; the entire complex structure of something | cosmos, entirety | model, miniature, microcosm |
| Mountebank | trickster/swindler; charlatan | impostor, quack | sucker, dupe, "mark", "pigeon" |
| Paean | song of praise/joy/triumph | hymn, ode, anthem | dirge, elegy, lament, threnody |
| Persiflage | lighthearted joking/talk/writing | banter, jesting, repartee, badinage | |
| Plethora | overfullness; superabundance; superfluity | surplus, surfeit, glut, excess | shortage, paucity, dearth, scarcity |
| Pragmatic | concerned w/ practical considerations/values; dealing w/ actions and results rather than w/ abstract theory; stiff in one's opinions | down-to-earth; businesslike | idealistic, impractical, visionary |
| Quizzical | puzzled, mocking; odd; equivocal | peculiar, perplexed, mystified, derisive | unequivocal, crystal-clear, unambiguous |
| Rapacity | inordinate greed; the disposition to obtain one's desires by force/extortion/plunder | avarice, cupidity, voraciousness | liberality, generosity, altruism |
| Schism | a formal spilt w/n a religious organization, any division/separation of a group/org into hostile factions | rift, breach | united front, reconciliation |
| Therapeutic | having the power to heal/cure; beneficial | curative, salutary, salubrious | harmful, injurious, deleterious |
| Virtuoso | (n) a brilliant performer; a person w/ masterly skill/technique; (adj) masterly/brilliant | (n) expert, master, prodigy, maestro | (n) amateur, beginner, novice; (adj) mediocre |
| Ancillary | subordinate; supplementary | auxiliar, subsidiary, accessory | central, key, primary, principal, main |
| Bowdlerize | to remove material considered offensive (from a book, play, film, etc) | censor, purge, expurgate |
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