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Chapter 2 Vocab
Definition, Synonyms, Antonyms
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| Ameliorate | v. to improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming:amend, better/worsen, aggravate, exacerbate |
| Aplomb | n. poise, assurance, great self-confidence; perpendicularity:composure, self-possession, levelheadedness/confusion, embarrassment, abashment |
| Bombastic | adj. pompous or overblon in language, full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas:infated, highfalutin, high-flown, pretentious/unadorned, simple, plain, austere |
| Callow | adj. without experience; immature, not fully developed; lacking sophistication and poise; without feathers:green, raw, unfledged, inexperienced/mature, grown-up, polished, sophisticated |
| Drivel | n. saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish, aimless talk or thinking; nonsense; v. to let saliva flow from the mouth; to utter nonsense or childish twaddle; to waste or fritter away foolishly: balderdash, hogwash, tommyrot, salver |
| Epitome | n. a summary, condensed account, an instance that represents a larger reality:abstract, digest, model, archetype |
| Exhort | v. to urge strongly, advise earnestly:entreat, implore, adjure/discourage, advise against, deprecate |
| Ex Officio | adj.adv. by virtue of holding a certain office |
| Infringe | v. to violate, trespass, go beyond recongnized bounds:encrach, impinge, intrude, poach/stay in bounds |
| Ingratiate | v. to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by other (sometimesused in a critical or dergatory sense):cozy up to, cury favor with/alienate, humiliate oneself, mortiy oneself |
| Interloper | n. one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder:trespasser, meddler, buttinsky |
| Intrinsic | adj. belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent, originating in a bodily organ or part: immanent, organic/extrinsic, externa, outward |
| Inveigh | v. to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval: rail, harangue, fulminate, remonstrate/acclaim, glorify, extol |
| Lassitude | n. weariness of body or mind, lack of energy: fatigue, lethargy, torpor, languor/energy, vitality, animation, liveliness |
| Millennium | n. a period of one thousand years, a period of great joy: chiliad, golden age, prosperity, peace/doomsday, day of judgement |
| Occult | adj. mysterious, magical, supernatural, secret, hidden from view, not detectable by ordinary means, v. to hide, conceal, eclipse n. mattters invovling the supernatural:supernatural, esoteric, abstuse, arcane/mundane, common, public, exoteric |
| Permeate | v. to spread through, penetrate, soack through |
| Precipitate | v. to fall as moisture, to cause or bring about suddenly, to hurl down from a great height, to give distinct form to, characterized by excessive haste, moisture, the product of an action or process: provoke, produce, reckless, impetuous/wary, cautious, circumspect |
| Stringent | adj. strict, severe, rigorously or urgently binding or compelling, sharp or bitter to the taste: stern, rigorous, tough, urgent, imperative/lenient, mild, lax, permissive |
| Surmise | v. to think or believe without certain supporting evidence, to conjecture or guess n. likely idea that lacks definite proof: infer, gather, inference, presumpiton |
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Sprayberry High School |
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