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#3
KD lesson 3
| Word | Definition | Synonym | Antonym |
|---|---|---|---|
| renounce | v.- to give up or reject | abandon, reject, relinquish | adopt, cherish |
| induce | v.- to lead or move to take in | activate | stop, extinguish |
| Immunity | n.- resistence | amnesty, charter, exoneration, franchise, freedom, impunity, indemnity, invulnerability, liberty | disease, condemnation, damnation, sentencing |
| Curative | adj.- to cure of a disease | healing, alleviative, beneficial, corrective | harmful, hurting, injurious |
| Pragmatic | adj.- deal with facts or busy | businesslike, commonsensical, sensible | ambiguous, doubtful, equivocal, indecisive, uncertain |
| Mar | v.- to distort image | blemish, blight, blot, break, bruise, damage, deface, deform, detract, ding, disfigure | nurture, pamper, preserve, protect |
| Ameliorate | v.- to improve | improve, better | regress, worsen |
| Flagrant | adj.- offensive | offensive, arrant, atrocious, awful | admirable |
| Ingenious | adj.- clever, cunning | clever, cunning | stupid, dumb |
| Tenacious | adj.- hard grip | clinging, coherent, firm, unshakable | loose, nonadhesive, open, separated, slippery |
| Afflicted | adj.- to inflict physical or mental suffering | damaged, impaired | unaffected, unmoved, unswayed, untroubled |
| Insularity | n.- relating to isolated life | isolation, separation | togetherness |
| Reciprocity | n.- interchanged condition or relationship | correlation, correspondence, intercourse, interrelation | opposition, rivalry, undermining |
| Incoherent | adj.- lack of understanding | breathless, confused, disconnected, discontinuous, discordant, disjointed, disordered, dumb, faltering, inarticulate | balanced, clearheaded, lucid, rational, reasonable, sane |
| Verbatim | adj.- using same words | accurately, direct, directly, literally, literatim, precisely, sic, word-for-word | ambiguously, equivocally, indirectly |
| Slander | n.- false statement | lie, aspersion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, black eye, calumny, defamation, depreciation, detraction, dirt, dirty linen, disparagement, damage, | truth, adulation, compliments, flattery, sweet talk |
| Eccentric | adj.- strange or unique | unique, strange, abnormal | common, conventional, dull, normal, ordinary, usual |
| Forerunners | n.- people that run before others | initiator, originator, pioneer, precursor, progenitor, prognostic, prototype | descendant, offspring, progeny |
| Shrewd | adj.- sharp, trick, misery | clever, crafty, cunning | inept, unskilled, unskillful |
| Temperance | n.- self restraint | abnegation, abstemiousness, abstinence, asceticism, astringency, austerity, conservatism, constraint | acquiescence, admittance, concession, indulgence, surrender, yielding |
| Belied | v.- mispresent, contradict | mispresent, contradict, | approve, affirm |
| recuperate | v.- to return to health or strength; recover | improve, recover | degenerate, fall back, lose ground, regress |
| chisel | n.- A metal tool with a sharp beveled edge, used to cut and shape stone, wood, or metal | tool, blade, edge, gouge, knife | tape |
| suppress | v.- to put an ending/keep from being revealed | restrain, subdue, abolish | continue, create, keep |
| insomnia | n.- Chronic inability to fall asleep or remain asleep for an adequate length of time | unsleeping, indisposition, insomnolence, restlessness, sleeplessness, stress, tension, vigil, vigilance, wakefulness | sleeping |
| freight | n.- Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier; cargo | shipment, transportation, driver | passenger |
| allege | v.- to assert to be true | assert, affirm, claim | deny |
| halt | v.- to cause to stop | stop | go |
| medley | n.- An arrangement made from a series of melodies, often from various sources/ a mixture | miscellany, assortment, brew, collection, combo, composition, confusion | sul melody |
| abash | v.- to humiliate | humiliate, annoy | delight, make happy, please |
| illegality | n.- illegal act | criminality, delict, delictum, delinquency, depravity | good deed, kindness, innocence |
| hypocrisy | n.- An act or instance of such falseness | deceitfulness, bad faith | fairness, honesty, straightforwardness, truthfulness, uprightness |
| pedagogue | n.- a person who teaches | teacher | student |
| clasp | n.- fastens things | (blank) | (blank) |
| malefactor | n.- a bad person | criminal | angel |
| abode | n.- dwelling place | house | street |
| vagrant | n.- homeless person | beggar | house owner |
| enunciate | v.- to make clearer | articulate | inarticulate |
| corroded | adj.- decayed | decayed | improved |
| vane | n.- used to find wind direction | (blank) | (blank) |
| lampoon | n.- harsh sarcasm | humiliate | praise |
| Bogus | n.- person who deceives | liar | innocent |
| Incensed | adj.- angered | angered, annoyed | glad |
| Embezzler | n.- one who steals funds | thief | owner |
| ember | n.- type of ash | ash, dust | fire |
| truant | n.- One who is absent without permission | absence | presence |
| alumna | n.- A woman graduate or former student of a school | postgraduate | drop out |
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