Vocabulary unit 7 Set A

beneficent

(adj.) performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good

concoct

(v.) to prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate

crass

(v.) coarse, unfeeling; stupid

desecrate

(v.) to commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute

infraction

(n.) a breaking of a law or obligation

pillage

(v.) to rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder; (n.) the act of looting; booty

prate

(v.) to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion

punctilious

(adj.) very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety

redoubtable

(adj.) inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent

vulnerable

(adj.) open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected

beneficent synonyms and antonyms

S: humanitarian, magnanimous, charitable

A: selfish, cruel, harmful, deleterious

concoct synonyms and antonyms

S: create, fashion, rustle up

crass synonyms and antonyms

S: crude, tasteless, oafish, obtuse

A: refined, elegant, tasteful, polished, brilliant

desecrate synonyms and antonyms

S: profane, defile, violate

A: revere, venerate, consecrate

infraction synonyms and antonyms

S: violation, transgression, offense

pillage synonyms and antonyms

S: ravage, sack, loot, booty

prate synonyms and antonyms

S: prattle, blab, palaver

A: come to the point

punctilious synonyms and antonyms

S: precise, scrupulous

A: careless, perfunctory

redoubtable synonyms and antonyms

S: formidable, august

A: laughable, risible

vulnerable synonyms and antonyms

S: defenseless, unguarded

A: invincible, protected, safe, secure