Unit 15 Vocabulary and Synonyms
Obeisance
A body movement indicating respect or submission homage/ Respect deference homage a bow
Pillory
A device for publicly punishing offenders to expose to ridicule/ To expose to public ridicule
Dissidence
A difference of opinion discontent/ Disagreement dissent disaffection
Affectation
A habit or mannerism assumed for effect a pretentious display of manners of sentiments that are not genuine/ A pose pretense
PIttance
A woefully meager allowance/ A modicum trifle "peanuts"
Recrimination
An exchange of charges or accusations a bitter retort/ A countercharge retort
Aperture
An opening gap or hole/Orfice
Seraphic
Angelic heavely celestial/ Angelic heavenly celestial ethereal
Progeny
Descendants,Children/ Children posterity offspring
Epicurean
Devoted to the pursuit of pleasure fond of good food/ Hedonistic discriminating pleasure seeking
Panegyric
Formal or elaborate praise a tribute/ Encomium testimonial
Nascent
Having just come into exsistence/ Budding incipient embryonic
Improvident
Not thrifty failing to plan ahead/ A prodigal spendthrift extravagant
Mutable
Open to or capable of change fickle/ Changeable variable fickle
Amenity
Pleasantness attractive features/ Pleasantness social conventions
Restive
Restless hard to manage/ uneasy fidgety recalcitrant
Inviolable
Sacred/ Sacrosanct unassailable
Presage
To foreshadow or point to a future even to predict a warning of the future/ to portend foretell
Promulgate
To proclaim or issue officially/ Announce to issue
Subsist
To remain alive manage to make a living or maintain life/ To last persist to survive to sustain
Rectitude
Uprightness righteousness correctness/ Intergriry correctness
Iniquity
Wickedness sin a grossly immoral act/ a Crime
