APLAC Vocabulary List 5 (Word/Synonyms)

abnegate (v)

abdicate, relinquish, renounce

affected (adj)

feigned, insincere, meretricious

certitude (n)

assurance, confidence

diffuse (v)

disperse, disseminate, scatter

epochal (adj)

consequential, momentous, pivotal

feckless (adj)

purposeless, worthless

grandiloquence (n)

pompousness, pretension

impudent (adj)

audacious, brazen

intimation (n)

clue, hint, insinuation

misanthrope (n)

hater

obfuscate (v)

conceal, obscure

paradigm (n)

example, standard

plaintive (adj)

melancholy, mournful, pathetic

promulgate (v)

advertise, announce, proclaim

recapitulate (v)

reiterate, review, summarize

sacrilegious (adj)

blasphemous, irreverent

sportive (adj)

energetic, lively, spry

temerity (n)

audacity, recklessness

unconscionable (adj)

immoral, unjust

wanton (adj)

careless, capricious, frivolous