level f unit 9 vocabulary workshop synonyms

abate

diminish, decrease, subside, let up

adulation

adoration, idolization, hero-worship

anathema

malediction, imprecation, abomination

astute

acute, sagacious, judicious, wily

avarice

cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness

culpable

guilty, delinquent, peccant, blameworthy

dilatory

stalling, slow, tardy, laggard

egregious

glaring, flagrant, blatant

equivocate

to talk out of both sides of one's mouth, palter, hedge

evanescent

ephemeral, transient, transitory

irresolute

indecisive, vacillating, wavering

nebulous

hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, vague, murky, opaque, indeterminate

novice

neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice

penury

destitution, indigence

pretentious

ostentatious, inflated

recapitulate

review, summarize, go over

resuscitate

revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivate

slovenly

unkempt, slatternly, lax

supposition

assumption, presumption, hypothesis

torpid

lethargic, languid