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WW 3-8
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| amenity | a pleasing way or custom |
| amenity (RW) | amenable, etiquette, civility, comity, diplomacy |
| criterion | basis or standard for judgment |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for rhetorical effect |
| hyperbole (RW) | hypertension, hypertrophy, hypersensitive, hyperacidity, litotes |
| integrity | moral soundness, uprightness |
| integrity (RW) | integer, integrate, disintegrate, deteriorate, degenerate, unintegrated, rectitude |
| intuition | instinctive knowledge |
| nonchalance | indifference, unconcern |
| nonchalance (RW) | inert |
| optimism | tendency to take the most hopeful view |
| optimism (RW) | optimum, sanguine, buoyancy |
| pertinacity | stubborn perseverance |
| pertinacity (RW) | doggedness, persistence, resoluteness, steadfastness, stubbornness, obstinacy, unwavering, unfaltering, unswerving, unflinching, unflagging, unremitting |
| pessimism | tendency to expect the worst |
| pessimism (RW) | splenetic, cynical, saturnine, lugubrious, despondent, disconsolate, melancholy, misanthropic |
| rapacity | violence or greed, eagerness for plunder |
| rapacity (RW) | covetousness, cupidity, avarice, predacity |
| clandestine | secret, stealthy |
| clandestine (RW) | covert, furtive, surreptitious, incognito |
| coherent | sticking together, connected |
| compatible | capable of being harmonized |
| compatible (RW) | congruous, consonant, conformable, consistent, reconcilable, incongruity, intractability, recalcitrance |
| concomitant | an attendant condition, varying at the same rate |
| concomitant (RW) | concurrent, corresponding, coincedence, synchronous |
| crucial | supremely important or decisive, severe |
| crucial (RW) | crucify, crucifix, cruciform, crucifier, excruciating, crucible |
| deleterious | harmful to health, injurious |
| deleterious (RW) | baneful, narcotic, noxious, detrimental, niosome, insidious, pestilent, septic, venomous, pernicious, mephitic, salubrious |
| impervious | impenetrable, unaffected by |
| iridescent | glistening with colors, glittering |
| iridescent (RW) | prismatic, polychromatic, kaleidoscopic, reminiscent, phosphorescent, putrescent, incandescent, recrudescent |
| peremptory | imperative, positive, dictatorial |
| specious | fair-seeming, deceptive, plausible but not genuine |
| specious (RW) | mereticious, plausible, ostensible |
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AP English Literature & Composition, AP English Language & Composition, Writing Center |
Lincoln-Way West High School |
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