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Vocabulary
Unit 6 - Synonyms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| anomalous | exceptional, atypical, unusual, aberrant, |
| aspersion | innuendo, calumny, deningration |
| bizzare | grotesque, fantastic, outlandish |
| brusque | curt, tactless, ungracious, gruf, rough |
| cajole | wheedle, inveige, soft-soap, sweet talk |
| castigate | chastise, rebuke, censure, upbraid |
| contrive | think up, devise, concoct, fabricate |
| demagogue | rabble-rouser, firebrand |
| disabuse | undeceive, enlighten, set straight |
| ennul | languor, world-weariness, listlessness |
| fetter | bond, restraint, dind, hamper |
| heinous | evil, odious, abdominable, outrageous |
| immutable | unchageable, unalterable, fixed, invariable |
| insurgent | (adj) revolutionary, rebellious, mutinous |
| megalomania | delusions of grandeur |
| sinecure | "no-show" job, cushy job, "plum" |
| surreptitious | furtive, covert, clandestine, concealed |
| transgress | overstep, exceed, trespass, err |
| transmute | transform, convert translate, metamorphose |
| vicarious | surrogate, substitute, imagined, secondhand |