UNITS 7-9 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, 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

acrimonious

biting, rancorous, hostile, peevish

bovine

stolid, dull, slow, stupid

consternation

shock, amazement, bewilderment, dismay

corpulent

overweight, heavy, obese, stout, portly

disavow

disclaim, retract, abjure

dispassionate

unbiased, disinterest, cool, detached

dissension

strife, discord, contention

dissipate

disperse, strew, diffuse, waste

expurgate

purge, censor, bowdlerize

gauntlet

dare, provocation, trial, punishment

hypothetical

assumed, supposed, conditional

ignoble

inferior, unworthy, sordid

impugn

challenge, deny, dispute, query, question

intemperate

excessive, extreme, unrestrained, inordinate

odium

abhorrence, opprobrium, shame, ignominy

perfidy

betrayal, disloyalty, treason

relegate

transfer, consign, demote, exile

squeamish

nauseated, queasy, delicate, oversensitive, priggish

subservient

secondary, servile, obsequious, useful

susceptible

vulnerable, receptive, impressionable

Austere

forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned

Beneficent

humanitarian, magnanimous, charitable

Cadaverous

corpselike, wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly

Concoct

create, fashion, rustle up

Crass

crude, tasteless, oafish, obtuse

Debase

cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate

Desecrate

profane, defile, violate

Disconcert

upset, rattle, ruffle, faze

Grandiose

majestic, bombastic, highfalutin

Inconsequential

trivial, negligible, paltry

Infraction

violation, transgression, offense

Mitigate

lessen, relieve, alleviate

Pillage

(v.) ravage, sack, fool; (n.) booty

Prate

prattle, blab, palaver

Punctilious

precise, scrupulous

Redoubtable

formidable, august

Reprove

chastise, upbraid, reproach

Restitution

reimbursement, redress, restoration

Stalwart

(adj.) sturdy, stout, intrepid, valiant; (n.) mainstay

Vulnerable

defenseless, unguarded