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Unit 4 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Annul | To reduce to nothing To make ineffective or inoperative To declare legally invalid or void Synonyms: To cancel To abolish To invalidate To nullify Antonyms: Validate Authorize Ratify |
| Blase | In different Bored, as a result of having many pleasures Apathetic Antonyms: Enthusiastic Passionate |
| Bolster | To give support, or to booth A long pillow or cushion Synonyms: Reinforce Validate Strengthen Antonyms: Undermine Weaken Impair |
| Deplore | To feel express regret or disappointment Synonyms: Lament Bemoan bewait Antonyms: Approve Commend Extal |
| Frivolous | Something that has little importance, Not worthy of serious attention Synonyms: Silly Foolish Antonyms: Serious Important significant |
| Muster | To bring together for service or battle To gather or summon To amount to, comprise, include Synonyms: Mobilize Summon Gather Antonyms: Disband Dismiss Disperse |
| Nonentity | A person or thing of no importance Synonyms: Nobody Antonyms: Celebrity |
| Obsess | To trouble to haunt, to fill the mind Synonyms: Preoccupy Antonyms: Indifferent Disinterested aloof |
| Ornate | Elaborate decorated Showily splendid Synonyms: Fancy Flashy embellished Antonyms: Plain Start austere |
| Oust | To remove or drive out of a position Synonyms: Expel reject Antonyms: Admit welcome |
| Peruse | To read through thoroughly and carefully Synonyms: Study Pure over Scrutinize |
| Porous | Full of tiny holes Air or water is able to pass through Synonyms: Leaky Permeable Antonyms: Airtight Impermeable |
| Promontory | A high point of land extending into water Synonyms: Cliff Jetty Outcrop |
| Prone | Lying face down Inclined Likely Synonyms: Liable Susceptible Predisposed Antonyms: Unlikely Standing up right |
| Qualm | A panf of conscience, misgiving, or doubt, a feeling of faintness or nausea Synonyms: Regret Second thought Reservation |
| Recourse | A person or thing turned to for help or advice The act of seeking help or protection Synonyms: Redress Remedy Resource Option Antonyms: Blockage Obstruction Stop |
| Residue | A reminder which remind when a part has been used up or removed Synonyms: Remnant Remains Leavings |
| Solicitous | Showing concerns or care Fearful or anxious about someone or something Synonyms: Concerned Mindful Attentive Antonyms: Unconcerned Indifferent Apathetic |
| Staid | Serious and dignified Quiet or subdued in character or conduct Synonyms: Grave Solemn Sober Prim Antonyms: Unconventional Giddy Playful |
| Sustain | To support, nourish, keep off, to suffer, to undergo, to bear up, withstand Synonyms: Foster Uphold Antonyms: Discontinue Stop Hinder |