UNIT 9 VOCAB

ALLOCATE

• Verb
• Syn: assign, allot, distribute
• For the award ceremony I allocated the awards in the locker to make
• sure they were safe.

ARDENT

• Adjcetive
• Syn: intense, fervent, avid
• Ant: indifferent, stolid, phelgmatic, apathic
• My ardent brother was excited about going away for February break.

ASSIDUOUS

• Adjective
• Syn: industrious, unremitting, sedulous
• Ant: lazy, lackadaisical, shiftless
• My assiduous summer consisted of doing my service hours
• at my local food pantry and working at my job.

BRASH

• Adjective
• Syn: rash, impetuous, brazen
• Ant: prudent, wary, circumspect
• The brash teacher failed me on my test because I did not
• put my name on my paper.

CAPRICIOUS

• Adjective
• Syn: impulsive, fickle, unpredictable, mercuril
• Ant: constant, steady, unwavering
• The capricious attitude of the school council keeps the school
• out of trouble.

CHASTISE

• Verb
• Syn: discipline, censure
• Ant: commend, reward
• When students were miss behaving, teachers
• would smack them on the bottom with a yard stick.

COPIOUS

• Adjective
• Syn: ample, profuse, bountiful
• Ant: inadequate, meager, scanty, concise
• In my basement I have a copious amount of video games
• and most of the I never played.

DEVIATE

• Verb
• Syn: diverge, veer, swere
• Ant: conform to, abide by
• If you diviate from the road, at night, you might hit a tree.

EMACIATED

• Adjective
• Syn: withered, shrivled
• Ant: plump, fat, obese, corpulent
• If you don't eat for one week you will become sick and emaciated.

EXULT

• Verb
• Syn: revel, glory
• Ant: mope, sulk, regret, rue, lament
• When I get a good grade on a tough test I exult with happiness.

GNARLED

• Adjective
• Syn: knotty, misshapen, contorted
• Ant: smooth, unblemished, strait
• When I looked on my closet I saw the gnarled
• clothing all wrinkled and intertwined together.

INDEMNITY

• Noun
• Syn: compensation, reparation
• When I broke my neighbor's window, playing baseball,
• I offered to pay the indemnity, but the cost was too great
• for me to pay it that my neighbor said he would pay for a new one.

INKLING

• Noun
• Syn: clue, intimation, suggestion
• The last class before the exam, my teacher gave a inkling
• motion on the word that might be on the vocab test.

LIMPID

• Adjective
• Syn: lucid, intelligible
• Ant: murky, opaque
• Because we needed to reflect a triangle on the math test,
• Mr. Walters gave us a lipid piece of paper so that we can see the graph.

OMNIPOTENT

• Adjective
• Syn: all-powerful
• Ant: powerless, impotent, weak
• When I grow up I want to become President so I become omnipotent
• and every will be under my control.

PALATABLE

• Adjective
• Syn: edible, appetizing, attractive
• Ant: inedible, distasteful, disagreeable
• When I get home from school from a long day, anything my mom
• cooks for dinner is palatable to me, because I am so hungry.

POIGNANT

• Adjective
• Syn: heartrending, melancholy
• Ant: unaffecting, bland, vapid, insipid, funny
• During February break I will be so poignant because I will be at
• Walt Disney World.

RANCOR

• Noun
• Syn: animosity, enmity, bitterness,
• Ant: goodwill, harmony, rapport, amity
• This winter has been so rancor because of how cold and how much snow
• we have gotten.

SOPHOMORIC

• Adjective
• Syn: pretentious, superficial, fatuous
• Ant: mature, judicious, knowledgeable
• My sophomoric brothers think that they know everything
• but in reality they don't.

SPONTANEOUS

• Adjective
• Syn: unpremeditated, unplanned, impromptu
• Ant: premeditated, planned, contrived
• The idea came to me spontaneously, I did not have time to think about
• what it meant.