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