UNIT 9

AUXILLIARY

• (adj.) giving assistance or support; (n) a helper, aid
• Synonyms: additional, reserve, accesory
• Antonyms: main, primary, principal
• The Allies need auxiliary when they were attack on D-Day.

CANDID

• (adj.) frank, sincere, impartial, unposed
• Synonyms: forthright, plainspoken, unbaised
• Antonyms: insincere, evasive, misleading, artful
• The candid comforted the widow after the death of her husband.

CUBICLE

• (n) a small room or compartment
• Synonyms: hole-in-the-wall
• Antonyms: vast hall, auditorium
• My dad has trouble at work since he is so tall and he has to sit in the tight space of a cubicle.

DRUDGERY

• (n) work that is hard and tiresome
• Synonyms: toil, labor, grind
• Antonyms: play, frolic, amusement, recreation, fun
• Construction workers have drudgery work since they have to lift many large boulders and tools.

ENVOY

• (n) a representative or messenger
• Synonyms: ambassador, emissary, minister
• Each state has a envoy to make the decisions for them in what is right in politics.

ESCALATE

• (v) to elevate; to increase intensity
• Synonyms: raise, ascend, mount
• Antonyms: decrease, lessen, descend, defuse
• The volleyball had to escalate the intensity or else they were going to lose in the finals.

EXPENDIENT

• (n) a means to an end; (adj.) advantageous, useful
• Synonyms: contrivance, device, servicable
• Antonyms: inconvenient, untimely, disadvantageous
• Band-aid's are expedient when you fall off your bike and scrap your knee.

FEIGN

• (v) to pretend
• Synonyms: fake, sham, affect, simulate
• During a play the actors feign to be a character and they say their lines.

FLAIR

• (n) a natural quality, talent, or skill; a distinctive style
• Synonyms: bent, knack, gift, style, panache
• Antonyms: inability, incapactiy
• Professional sport players have a flair of talent as a young child to play well.

GRIEVOUS

• (adj.) causing sorrow or pain, serious
• Synonyms: painful, heartrending, onerous, flagrant
• Antonyms: joyful, uplifting, cheery, upbeat, comforting
• When there is a death in a family there is a grievous feeling at the funeral.

HETEROGENEOUS

• (adj.) composed of different kinds, diverse
• Synonyms: miscellaneous, mixed, variegated
• Antonyms: uniform, homogeneous, of a piece
• The United States is heterogenous since they are known as the melting pot and they have many different cultures.

HORDE

• (n) a vast number; a throng
• Synonyms: crowd, mass, multitude, host, swarm
• Antonyms: few, handful
• Inside of a bee hive there is a horde of bees that are protecting the queen bee.

IMPEL

• (v) to force, drive forward
• Synonyms: urge, push, spur, propel, incite
• Antonyms: discourage, check, restrain, curb
• A coach will impel on his players to play to their full ability to win the game.

INCREDULOUS

• (adj.) disbelieving, skeptical
• Synonyms: mistrustful, doubting
• Antonyms: believing, trustful
• When I first heard about bigfoot I was very incredulous.

INSCRIBE

• (v) to write or engrave; to enter a name on a list
• Synonyms: enroll, enlist
• Antonyms: erase, rub out, delete, efface, obliterate
• When in jail the prisoners might inscribe their name into the walls to take up time.

MONOLOGUE

• (n) a speech by one actor; a long talk by one person
• Synonyms: soliloquy
• Antonyms: conversation, colloquy
• During Julius Caesar, Brutus had monologue when he talked to the people after the death of Caesar.

PROGNOSIS

• (n) a forecast of the probable course and outcome of a disease
• Synonym: projection
• During a flight if the pilot doesn't feel safe taking off then he will look at the prognosis of the weather and decide to take off or not.

RASPING

• (adj.) with a harsh, grating sound; (n) a harsh sound
• Synonyms: scraping, abrasive, gravelly
• Antonyms: smooth, satiny, silky
• If your car has a rasping sound then you should take it to the shop to have it checked out.

REPUGNANT

• (adj) offensive, disagreeable, distastful
• Synonyms: hateful, odious, revolting, repulsive
• Antonyms: pleasing, attractive, tempting, wholesome
• When two friends are repugnant of each other they don't talk until they compromise.

SCUTTLE

• (v) to sink a ship by cutting holes in it, to get rid of something in a decisive way; to run hastily, scurry (n) a pail
• Synonyms: abandon, discard, scrap, ditch, dump
• Antonyms: keep afloat, salvage, rescue, preserve
• The titanic was not scuttled, but instead it hit an iceberg, and that is how it sank.