Unit 4 Flashcards
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ALLIANCE
- Definition: a joining together for some common purpose
- Synonyms: pact, league, coalition
- Antonyms: rift, split
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BEWILDER
- Definition: to puzzle completely, confuse
- Synonyms: baffle, perplex
- Antonyms: set straight, enlighten
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CONTROVERSIAL
- Definition: arousing argument, dispute, or disagreement
- Synonyms: arguable, debatable
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DISHEARTEN
- Definition: to discourage
- Synonyms: dismay, demoralize, dispirit
- Antonyms: encourage, hearten
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FRUITLESS
- Definition: not producing the desired results, unsuccessful
- Synonyms: useless, vain, unproductive, futile
- Antonyms: productive, effective
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HOSTILE
- Definition: unfriendly; unfavorable; warlike, aggressive
- Antonyms: friendly, cordial, peaceful
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INFLAMMABLE
- Definition: easily set on fire; easily angered or aroused
- Synonyms: combustible, flammable, excitable
- Antonyms: fireproof, fire-resistant, calm
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INFLICT
- Definition: to give or cause something unpleasant, impose
- Synonyms: deal out, visit upon
- Antonyms: suffer, undergo, sustain
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MALIGNANT
- Definition: deadly, extremely harmful, evil; spiteful, malicious
- Synonyms: lethal, wicked
- Antonyms: wholesome, beneficial, benign
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MORTIFY
- Definition: to hurt someone's feelings deeply; to cause embarrassment or humiliation; to subdue or discipline by self-denial or suffering
- Synonyms: humiliate, embarrass, abash
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ORTHODOX
- Definition: in agreement with established or generally accepted beliefs or ways of doing things
- Synonyms: traditional, standard, customary
- Antonyms: unusual, unconventional, heretical
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PROCURE
- Definition: to obtain through social effort; to bring about
- Synonyms: gain, acquire, achieve
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SCURRY
- Definition: to run quickly, scamper, hurry
- Synonyms: rush, dash, scramble
- Antonyms: trudge, plod, creep, crawl
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SODDEN
- Definition: soaked with liquid or moisture; expressionless, dull; spiritless, listless
- Synonyms: drenched, waterlogged, saturated
- Antonyms: parched, arid
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SPIRITED
- Definition: full of life and vigor; courageous
- Synonyms: lively, animated, gallant
- Antonyms: lifeless, dull, luckluster
VIRTUAL
- Definition: having a certain force or affect in fact but not in name; so close as to be equivalent to the real thing
- Synonyms: functioning as, equivalent to
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VOID
- Definition: completely empty; having no legal force or effect; empty or unfilled space; to cancel or nullify
- Synonyms: invalid, vacant, bare
- Antonyms: in effect, teeming with; confirm
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WAYWARD
- Definition: disobedient, willful; unpredictable, capricious
- Synonyms: perverse
- Antonyms: docile, well-behaved, predictable
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