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