Sadlier Level G Unit 11

abrogate

(v.) to repeal, cancel, declare null and void; revoke

SYN: annul, revoke

ANT: renew, ratify

ambient

(adj.) completely surrounding, encompassing

asperity

(n.) roughness, severity; bitterness or tartness; harshness

SYN: rigor, harshness

ANT: mildness, blandness, softness, lenience

burnish

(v.) to make smooth or glossy by rubbing, polish

(n.) gloss, brightness, luster; shine; buff

SYN: (v.) shine, buff

ANT: (v.) dull, abrade

cabal

(n.) a small group working in secret; gang

SYN: ring, gang, plot, conspiracy

delectable

(adj.) delightful, highly enjoyable; deliciously flavored, savory

(n.) an appealing or appetizing food or dish; scrumptious

SYN: (adj.) scrumptious

ANT: (adj.) repugnant, repulsive, distateful

deprecate

(v.) to express mild disapproval; to belittle; deplore; frown upon

SYN: deplore, frown upon

ANT: smile on, approve

detritus

(n.) loose bits and pieces of material resulting from disintegration or wearing away; fragments that result from any destruction; wreckage; ruins

SYN: wreckage, ruins, rubble

ebullient

(adj.) overflowing with enthusiasm and excitement; boiling, bubbling; exhilarated

SYN: exhilarated, elated

ANT: gloomy, morose, sullen, apathetic, blase

eclectic

(adj.) drawn from different sources; (n.) one whose beliefs are drawn from various sources; selective

SYN: (adj.) selective, synthetic, pick-and-choose

ANT: (adj.) uniform, monolithic

flaccid

(adj.) limp, not firm; lacking vigor or effectiveness; soft

SYN: soft, flabby

ANT: hard, solid

impecunious

(adj.) having little or no money; impoverished

SYN: impoverished, indigent

ANT: affluent, wealthy, prosperous, rich

inexorable

(adj.) inflexible, beyond influence; relentless, unyielding

SYN: ineluctable, obdurate

ANT: avoidable, yielding, pliant

moribund

(adj.) dying, on the way out

SYN: obsolescent

ANT: thriving

necromancer

(n.) one who claims to reveal or influence the future through magic, especially communication with the dead; in general, a magician or wizard

SYN: sorcerer, conjurer

onerous

(adj.) burdensome; involving hardship or difficulty; weighty

SYN: weighty

ANT: light, easy, undemanding, untaxing

rife

(adj.) common, prevalent, widespread, happening often; full, abounding; plentiful, abundant, replete

ANT: devoid of, lacking

rudiments

(n. pl.) the parts of any subject or discipline that are learned first; the earliest stages of anything; basics

SYN: basics, fundamentals

sequester

(v.) to set apart, separate for a special purpose; to take possession of and hold in custody; segregate

SYN: segregate, isolate, closet

winnow

(v.) to get rid of something unwanted, delete; to sift through to obtain what is desirable; to remove the chaff from the wheat by blowing air on it; to blow on, fan; sift

SYN: sift, strain, filter, sort