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Vocab unit 2

TermDefinition
Spartan sever, rigorous, disciplined
Gadfly person who continually annoys others
Homage action showing respect and honor
Spurn scornfully refuse or reject
Pedigree ancestry or record of ancestor, line of descent
Pittance small amount or portion, especially of money
Preposterous ridiculous, obviously absurd, contrary to reason
Macabre gruesome, horrible. causing fear, suggesting the horror of death
Farce ridiculous, light comedy; slapstick comedy, absurd thing; mockery
Bombast speech or writing grand or important
Gadfly - gaddr spike
Spurn - spurnan kick
Pedigree - pied foot
Pedigree - de of
Pedigree - grue crane
Pittance - pietas devotion
Farce - farcire stuff
Spartan - synonyms self-denying, plain, spare, restrained, strict, stern, austere
Spartan - related abstemious, abstinent, ascetic, stringent, frugal
Spartan - contrasting lavish, self-indulgent, hedonistic, sybaritic
Gadfly - synonyms critic, pest, faultfinder, goad
Homage - synonyms honor, admiration, esteem, reverence, tribute
homage - related deference, obeisance, vereration
homage - contrasting irreverence, contempt, disdain, scorn
spurn - synonyms scorn, repel, despise, decline, dismiss, repudiate
spurn - related distain, rebuff, contemn, repulse
spurn - contrasting crave
pedigree - synonyms family tree, lineage, genealogy
pedigree - related progenitors, forbears, forefathers, heritage
pittance - synonyms trifle, insufficiency, ration, minimal wage, modicum
pittance - related dole, meager remuneration
pittance - contrasting abundance, largess, bounty
preposterous - synonyms foolish, nonsensical, silly, unreasonable, irrational, ludicrous
preposterous - related fatuous, asinine, implausible, unfeasible
preposterous - contrasting plausible, credible, tenable, feasible
macabre - synonyms grim, hideous, horrid, dreadful, weird, ghastly
macabre - related grisly, eerie, morbid
farce - synonyms mockery, absurdity, ridiculous, nonsense, burlesque
farce - related words sham, travesty, parody, caricature
bombast - synonyms wordiness, grandiloquence
bombast - related magniloquence, rhetoric, pretentiousness, pomposity
Created by: francesca ro
 

 



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