Vocab unit 2 Word Scramble

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Term	Definition
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

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