Unit 14 Synonyms

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Amplify

to increase, augment, fill out, supplement

Ransack

to look high and low, rummage, scour

Estrange

to part company; to alienate

Gratify

to satisfy, indulge, humor; to delight

Obliterate

to wipe out, erase, expunge, efface

Rote

unthinking repetition, mechanical routine

Vendor

a peddler, hawker, dealer, merchant

Epoch

a period, era, age

Armistice

a cease-fire, truce

Niche

a nook, recess

Infinite

endless, unlimited, inexhaustible

Solvent

financially sound in the black

Arrogant

high-handed, overbearing, presumptuous

Naive

innocent, wet behind the ears, "green"

Irascible

irritable, quarrelsome, cantankerous

Tedious

long and boring, monotonous, tiresome

Bland

mild, soothing; dull, insipid

Kindred

one's relatives; like, similar

Ramshackle

rickety, unsteady; run-down, dilapidated

Disclaim

to deny, disavow, disown, repudiate


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