VOCABULARY UNIT 11

BREVITY

• (N) shortness
• Sny: terseness, Ant: verbosity
• The Emancipation Proclamation was known not only for its powerful message, but for the brevity of the speech as well.

COMPORT

• (V) to conduct or bear oneself, behave
• Sny: agree
• The constant reminder from the dean of students caused the student body to comport themselves as men for and with others.

CONCISE

• (Adj) expressing much in a few words
• Sny: brief, Ant: wordy
• Many professors prefer their students to be very concise with their statements and to not make them wordy and difficult to understand.

DEMURE

• (adj.) sober or serious in manner
• Sny: shy, Ant: forward
• Despite the Presidents demure, he was still capable of delivering a speech in front of the American population with out hesitation.

DEPRECIATION

• (n) a lessing in value
• Sny: cheapening, Ant: increase
• With the damage that has occurred with the major natural storm, the insurance companies calculated depreciation of the value of many homes.

DETERIOATE

• (v) to lower in quality or value
• Sny: worsen, Ant: fix up
• To watch a project that has been trying to prosper for years deteriorate in front of the creators eyes is very difficult and heart felt to see.

DIVULGE

• (v) to tell, reveal
• Sny: disclose, Ant: hide
• Criminals who have been caught in the act of crime try very hard to not divulge any of their secretes to law enforcing services.

enlightened

• (adj) free from ignorance and false ideas
• Sny: knowing, Ant: ignorant
• Feeling enlightened in faith caused many people to pray every day and go to church every Sunday.

FORESTALL

• (v) to prevent by acting first
• Sny: hinder, Ant: welcome
• President Obama tried to forestall conflict between American forces and Islamic forces.

GARBLE

• (v) to distort in such a way as to make unintelligible
• Sny: jumble, Ant: elucidate
• By using explosives to eradicate a bag of leaves, it is easily said that you garbled the bag into a crazy mess

PROPONET

• (N) one who puts forward a proposal
• Sny: supporter, Ant: opponent
• Many students where the first proponents of trying to create a better food program for breakfast and lunch at school.

QUAVER

• (v) to shake
• Sny: vibrate
• The city quavered as the force of the earthquake increased.

RECOIL

• (v) to spring back (N) the act of springing back
• Sny:flinch, Ant: advance
• The powerful recoil of the highly calibered machine gun caused the solider to be flung back against the ground.

RECOUP

• (v) to make up for
• Sny: recover, Ant: lose
• After the defeat against the opposing country, the solider's recouped and strengthen their forces to destroy the enemy.

REEK

• (n) an unpleasant smell (v) to give off unpleasant smells
• Sny: stench, Ant: perfume
• After a season the locker room reeked with sweat and hard work.

RELENTLESS

• (adj) unyielding, harsh
• Sny: stern, Ant: merciful
• The relentless moaning and groaning of the ghosts kept the child awake all night.

RIVULET

• (n) a small stream
• Sny: creek
• The rivulet ran through my backyard and caused a beautiful sight that no one has ever seen.

SQUANDER

• (v) to spend foolishly
• Sny: misspend, Ant: save
• To squander the resources that people depend on caused anger within the society.

STACCATO

• (adj) detached in disconnected in sound or style
• Sny: abrupt, Ant: continuous
• The sound of the basses staccatoed pits made it sound like a heart beat.

STATUE

• (n) a law
• Sny: rule
• The way that the student body is ran by a specific statue that comports them to be behave as men for and with others.