Vocabulary List 5 (Synonyms and Antonyms)

recant

synonym: abjure, forswear, renounce, retract antonym: adopt, assert, espouse, maintain, own

edify

synonym: advance, benefit, forward, further, uplift antonym: cast down, debase, degrade, hinder, impede

disseminate

synonym: circulate, diffuse, propagate, radiate, spread antonym: conceal, hide, secrete, withhold

adulterate

synonym: contaminate, debase, pervert, pollute, vitiate antonym: cleanse, decontimate, purge, purify, refine

repudiate

synonym: decline, refuse, reject, spurn 2. disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown antonym: accept, adopt, choose, embrace 2. acknowledge, allow, avow, claim, own

construe

synonym: deduce, explicate, expound, infer antonym: confuse, miscontrue, misinterpret, obscure

disperse

synonym: dispel, dissipate, scatter antonym: assemble, collect(things), congregate (persons)

saturate

synonym: drench, steep, waterlog; imbue, infuse, inoculate antonym: dehydrate, drain, extract; deplete, effuse, impoverish

prevaricate

synonym: equivocate, fi, lie, palter, quibble

scintillate

synonym: flash, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, sparkle, twinkle

sequester

synonym: insulate, isolate, seclude antonym: associate, connect, join, relate

reverberate

synonym: rebound, recoil, repercuss, resile