Vocabulary Workshop- Level E: Unit 3

Adversary

(n)- An enemy, opponent

[syn]- antagonist, rival, foe

Alienate

(v)- To turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey

[syn]- separate, drive apart, estrange

Artifice

(n)- A skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill; trickery

[syn]- ruse, stratagem, contricance

Coerce

(v)- To compel, force

[syn]- pressure, bully, intimidate, constrain

Craven

(adj)- Cowardly

(n)- A coward

[syn]- ((adj)): fearful, fainthearted, pusillanimous

Culinary

(adj)- Of or related to cooking or the kitchen

Demise

(n)- A death, especially of a person in a lofty position

[syn]- decease, passing away

Exhilarate

(v)- To enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to

[syn]- stimulate, excite, gladden

Fallow

(adj)- Plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow

(n)- Land left unseeded

(v)- To plow but not seed

[syn]- ((adj)): unproductive, inert, dormant

Harass

(v)- To disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks

[syn]- annoy, pester, bedevil, beleaguer

Inclement

(adj)- Stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action

[syn]- blustery, tempestuous, implacable

liquidate

(v.) to pay a debt, settle an account; to eliminate

[syn.] reconcile, pay, cancel, exterminate

Muse

(v)- To think about in a dreamy way, ponder

[syn]- meditate, contemplate, daydream

Negligible

(adj)- So unimportant that it can be disregarded

[syn]- trivial, inconsequential, insignificant

Perpetuate

(v)- To make permanent or long lasting

[syn]- continue, preserve, prolong indefinitely

Precedent

(n)- An example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action

[syn]- guide, tradition, model

Punitive

(adj)- Inflicting or aiming at punishment

[syn]- penalizing, retaliatory

Redress

(v)- To set right, remedy

(n)- Relief from wrong or injury

[syn]- ((v)): rectify, correct, mitigate

Sojourn

(n)- A temporary stay

(v)- To stay for a time

[syn]- ((n)): visit, stopover, brief stay

Urbane

(adj)- Refined in manner or style, suave

[syn]- elegant