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Vocab Unit 13

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ANTIPATHY

  • A strong dislike, hostile feeling
  • Hostility, enmity
  • Attraction, appeal, allure
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APPLICABLE

  • Capable of being applied, relevant, suitable
  • Fit, apt
  • Irrelevant, unsuitable
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ASSET

  • Something of value, a resource, an advantage
  • Property, holding
  • Drawback, handicap
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BESET

  • To attack from all sides, surround, harassed, troubled
  • Assail, harass, badger

COMPASSION

  • Sympathy for another's suffering, pity
  • Concern, empathy
  • Indifference, callousness
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DECORUM

  • Proper behavior, good taste, orderliness
  • Seemliness, good form
  • Impropriety, bad form

DURESS

  • Compulsion by threat, forcible confinement
  • Intimidation, coercion
  • Persuasion, coaxing
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EXUBERANT

  • High spirited, enthusiastic, excessive, abundant
  • Lively, ebullient
  • Depressed, restrained
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FACSIMILE

  • An exact copy
  • Replica, duplicate
  • Variation, modification

IMBIBE

  • To drink, to take in, absorb
  • Swallow, gulp
  • Eject, emit

IMPLACABLE

  • Not to be satisfied or pacified, unyielding
  • Relentless, inexorable
  • Lenient, indulgent,
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INFINITESIMAL

  • Small, minute
  • Tiny, minuscule
  • Vast, immense
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INNOCUOUS

  • Harmless, inoffensive
  • Feeble, impotent
  • Harmful, dangerous
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MILITATE

  • Have effect or force on, fight against
  • Counter, oppose, work against
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PATENT

  • Exclusive rights, copyright, plain, open to view
  • Exclusive license, evident
  • Concealed, hidden

PROWESS

  • Distinguished bravery, superior skill or ability
  • Valor, courage, heroism
  • Cowardice, incompetence

SEDATE

  • Quiet, settled, sober
  • Unruffled, composed
  • Loud, brash, flashy
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STENTORIAN

  • Extremely loud
  • Thundering, deafening
  • Hushed, inaudible
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STIPULATE

  • Arrange specifically, require as a condition of an agreement
  • Specify, contract
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ULTIMATUM

  • A final proposal, statement of conditions
  • Final terms
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