IV2 - Improving Vocab Skills - Unit 2
Chapter 6
- Concurrent - occurring at the same time
- Confiscate - to take away, take possession of
- Constitute - to form
- Decipher - to make sense of, figure out
- Default - to not do as expected
- Hypothetical - made up, imaginary
- Nominal - very little
- Predominant - main
- Prerequisite - a requirement
- Recession - an economic setback
Chapter 7
- Degenerate - to get worse
- Implausible - not valid, unbelievable, unlikely
- Incoherent - not understandable, unclear
- Intercede - to plead for someone
- Intricate - detailed, complicated
- Sanctuary - safety, comfort, shelter
- Scrutiny - criticism, attention, examination, inspection
- Sinister - evil
- Suffice - to be enough, adequate
- Vulnerable - open to attack, unguarded, susceptible
Chapter 8
- Blatant - unmistakeable
- Blight - something that hurts
- Contrive - to think up
- Garble - to jumble
- Gaunt - very thin
- Gloat - to be overly self satisfied
- Immaculate - very clean, spotless
- Plagiarism - the stealing of ideas
- Qualm - a guilty feeling
- Retaliate - to take revenge
Chapter 9
- Curtail - to shorten
- Devastate - to lay ruin to, to greatly upset
- Digress - to go off the subject
- Incentive - encouragement, goal
- Incorporate - to blend, combine, join together
- Indispensable - needed
- Intermittent - irregular
- Rigor - work, hardship
- Squander - to misuse, waste
- Succumb - to give up, yield
Chapter 10
- Alleviate - to ease
- Benefactor - financial supporter
- Covert - hidden, secret
- Cynic - someone who thinks the worst about things
- Demise - death
- Infamous - having a bad reputation
- Intrinsic - fundamental
- Revulsion - hatred
- Speculate - to guess
- Virile - having attractive male qualities