Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 7-9 Synonyms
astute
acute, sagacious, judicious, wily
adulation
adoration, idolization, hero-worship
supposition
assumption, presumption, hypothesis
reprove
chastise, upbraid, reproach
debase
cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate
cadaverous
corpselike, wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly
concoct
create, fashion, rustle up
crass
crude, tasteless, oafish, obtuse
avarice
cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness
vulnerable
defenseless, unguarded
penury
destitution, indigence
abate
diminish, decrease, subside, let up
evanescent
ephemeral, transient, transitory
austere
forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned
redoubtable
formidable, august
egregious
glaring, flagrant, blatant
culpable
guilty, delinquent, peccant, blameworthy
nebulous
hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, opaque, indeterminate
beneficent
humanitarian, mangnanimous, charitable
irresolute
indecisive, vacillating, wavering
mitigate
lessen, relieve, alleviate
torpid
lethargic, languid
grandiose
majestic, bombastic, highfalutin
anathema
malediction, imprecatoin, abomination
novice
neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice
pretentious
ostentatious, inflated
prate
prattle, blab, palaver
punctillious
precise, scrupulous
desecrate
profane, defile, violate
pillage
ravage, sack, loot; booty
restitution
reimbursement, redress, restoration
recapitulate
review, summarize, go over
resuscitate
revitalize, reanimate, restore,reactivate
dilatory
stalling, slow, tardy, laggard
stalwart
sturdy, stout, intrepid, valiant; mainstay
odium
synonyms: abhorrence, opprobrium, shame, ignominy
hypothetical
synonyms: assumed, supposed,conditional
perfidy
synonyms: betrayal, disloyalty, treason
acrimonious
synonyms: biting, rancorous, hostile, peevish
impugn
synonyms: challenge, deny, dispute, query, question
gauntlet
synonyms: dare, provocation, trial, punishment
dissipate
synonyms: disperse, strew, diffuse, waste
intemperate
synonyms: excessive, extreme, unrestrained, inordinate
ignoble
synonyms: inferior, unworthy,sordid
squeamish
synonyms: nauseated, queasy, delicate, oversensitive, priggish
corpulent
synonyms: overweight, heavy, obese, stout, portly
expurgate
synonyms: purge, censor, bowdlerize
subservient
synonyms: secondary, servile, obsequious, useful
consternation
synonyms: shock, amazement, bewilderment, dismay
bovine
synonyms: stolid, dull, slow, stupid
dissension
synonyms: strife, discord, contention
relegate
synonyms: transfer, consign, demote, exile
dispassionate
synonyms: unbiased, disinterested, cool, detached
susceptible
synonyms: vulnerable, receptive, impressionable
disavow
synonyms:disclaim, retract, abjure
equivocate
to talk out of both sides of one's mouth, palter, hedge
inconsequential
trivial, negligible, paltry
slovenly
unkempt, slatternly, lax
disconcert
upset, rattle, ruffle, faze
infraction
violation, transgression, offense
