IV4 - Improving Vocab Skills - Unit 4
Chapter 16
- Condone - to allow; excuse
- Contemplate - to think deeply about; consider
- Feasible - possible
- Feign - to fake
- Fiscal - financial
- Furtive - sneaky
- Gape - to stare
- Pathetic - miserable, inadequate
- Precedent - example, expectation, model
- Punitive - punishing
Chapter 17
- Cryptic - mysterious, puzzling
- Deficient - lacking
- Depict - to show
- Detrimental - extremely harmful
- Implicit - built in, unspoken
- Inhibition - an inner block
- Ironic - being opposite to what is expected, unexpected
- Rupture - to burst, come apart
- Saturate - to fill
- Vindictive - vengeful, spiteful
Chapter 18
- Constrict - to trap, squeeze
- Exhaustive - complete, detailed
- Fallible - imperfect
- Formulate - to make, develop
- Genial - friendly, good-natured
- Habitat - an area of shelter, a territory
- Pragmatic - sensible
- Pretentious - self-centered, undeservedly important-seeming
- Reconcile - to forgive, to deal with, to bring to accept
- Vile - disgusting
Chapter 19
- Avid - committed, devoted
- Dwindle - to thin out, to decrease
- Esteem - respect, admiration
- Evoke - to bring out
- Legacy - an inherited gift
- Mediate - to foster communications peacefully, to settle
- Muted - silent, soft
- Nurture - to take care of
- Pacify - to silence, soothe
- Transient - short-lived
Chapter 20
- Aloof - cool
- Ambivalent - having mixed feelings
- Augment - to make better, add to
- Dispel - to eliminate
- Explicit - specific, inappropriate
- Longevity - long life
- Magnitude - strength
- Mundane - commonplace
- Obscure - modified, unclear
- Render - to make