Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 7-9 Synonyms

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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


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