Sadlier's Level D Unit 15 Synonyms

Abase

Lower, humiliate, prostrate, demean

Actuate

Incite, instigate

Avert

Stop, deflect, ward off

Boorish

Vulgar, crude, uncouth, ill-mannered, gauche

Brunt

Blow, shock

Combatant

(N.) soldier, disputant, warrior

(Adj.) hostile, battling

Dormant

Resting, still, quiescent

Dubious

Questionable, suspect, unsettled, undecided

Harangue

(V.) rant, lecture

(N.) diatribe

Harry

Hound, pillage, ravage

Impenitent

Remorseless, unrepentant, incorrigible

Knave

Rascal, rogue, miscreant

Legion

Multitude, host, throng, division, regiment

Liberality

Magnanimity, broad-mindedness

Plaintiff

Complainant

Probe

(V.) explore

(N.) inquiry, detector

Protract

Elongate, spin out

Quarry

Prey, game, victim, excavation, mine

Spurn

Turn down, decline, snub, repudiate

Subterfuge

Dodge, blind, deception, artifice