UNIT 11 VOCABULARY

(V.) ALLUDE

• To refer to casually or indirectly
• Syn: suggest
• I alluded to the fact I want a car to
• my family over dinner.

(ADJ.) CLAIRVOYANT

• Supernaturally perceptive
• Syn: insightful
• Ant: blind
• My clairvoyant friend helped me
• see into the future of my life.

(ADJ.) CONCLUSIVE

• Serving to settle an issue
• Syn: decisive
• Ant: unsettled
• The final debater's conclusive argument
• made so much sense everyone knew he won.

(ADJ.) DISREPUTABLE

• Not respectable, not esteemed
• Syn: disgraceful
• Ant: honest
• Osama bin laden would be put in the disreputable
• hall of fame for being such a terrible person.

(ADJ.) ENDEMIC

• Native or confined to a particular region or people
• Syn: indigenous
• Ant: alien
• Americans are not endemic to America, they
• move around a lot.

(ADJ.) EXEMPLARY

• Worthy of imitation, commendable
• Syn: praiseworthy
• Ant: infamous
• Michael Jordan was an exemplary basketball
• player and he was awarded many awards.

(V.) FATHOM

• To understand, get to the bottom of
• Syn: grasp
• I was trying to fathom why rappers make
• so much money off of gibberish

(N.) GUILE

• Treacherous cunning
• Syn: trickery
• Ant: candor
• My act of robbing the bank was
• extremely guile.

(N.) INTEGRITY

• Honesty, high moral standards
• Syn: rectitude
• Ant: dishonesty
• The integrity of the high honor students
• has to be extremely high.

(N.) ITINERARY

• A route of travel
• Syn: schedule
• The itinerary helped my travel around Spain.

(V.) MISCONSTRUE

• To interpret wrongly, mistake the meaning of
• Syn: misjudge
• I miscontrued my mom when she said I could go out
• with my friends.

(ADJ.) OBNOXIOUS

• Highly offensive, arousing strong dislike
• Syn: disagreeable
• Ant: agreeable
• The obnoxious person makes everyone in the class
• mad.

(V.) PLACATE

• To appease, soothe, pacify
• Syn: satisfy
• Ant: vex
• I placated the lion when it got loose in the zoo

(ADJ.) PLACID

• Calm, peaceful
• Syn: undistirbed
• Ant: stormy
• The placid president stopped war with
• Iraq.

(ADJ.) POTENT

• Powerful
• Syn: mighty
• Ant: weak
• The potent president made jobs more
• available.

(N.) PRETEXT

• A false reason, deceptive excuse
• Syn: pretense
• The i had to pretext when my teacher asked why
• I was late to class.

(V.) PROTRUDE

• To stick out, thrust forth
• Syn: project
• The sword protruded out the victims back.

(N.) REPARATION

• A payment made for a wrong or an injury
• Syn: compensation
• The reparation that the senior made for slipping
• at McDonalds was in the millions.

(ADJ.) STARK

• Harsh, unreleived, desolate
• Syn: sheer
• Ant: bright
• The stark millionaire made all his money
• doing illegal things.

(ADJ.) SUPERFICIAL

• On or near the surface; shallow
• Syn: skin-deep
• Ant: deep
• The superficial student was not exceeding
• in his classes but was doing okay.