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Vocab 14

Published on Nov 27, 2015

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ANNEX

  • To add to, attach; to incorporate; an attachment or addition
  • S: join, acquire, appropriate, procure
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CLEAVE

  • To cut or split open; to cling to
  • S: sever, halve, sunder, adhere, clasp
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CORDIAL

  • In a friendly manner, hearty; cheery; a liqueur
  • S: hospitable, affable, warm, convivial
  • A: gruff, unfriendly, unsociable
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CORNERSTONE

  • The starting point of a building; a fundamental principle or element
  • S: foundation, base, underpinning, support
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DEBACLE

  • An overwhelming defeat, rout; a complete collapse or failure
  • S: disaster, fiasco, calamity
  • A: success, triumph, victory, coup
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DEVITALIZE

  • To make weak or lifeless
  • S: enfeeble, sap, enervate
  • A: enliven, stimulate, energize, excite
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EMBROIL

  • To involve in a conflict or difficulty; to throw into confusion
  • S: entangle, ensnarl
  • A: disentangle, seperate, disconnect
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EXONERATE

  • To clear from a charge or accusation
  • S: absolve, acquit, vindicate, exculpate
  • A: implicate, incriminate, inculpate
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GLIB

  • Ready and fluent in speech; thoughtless, insincere
  • S: superficial, pat, oily, unctuous, facile
  • A: halting, tongue-tied, awkward, speechless
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HAPHAZARD

  • By chance, not planned; lacking order
  • S: slapdash, random, accidental
  • A: deliberate, purposeful, orderly, meticulous
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IMPROVISE

  • To compose or perform without preparation; to construct from available materials
  • S: ad-lib, play it by ear, wing it, extemporize
  • A: plan, rehearse, practice, prepare
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INCITE

  • To rouse, stir up; urge on
  • S: spur, kindle, provoke, instigate, prompt
  • A: check, curb, impede, restrain, smother
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INFLUX

  • A coming in, inflow
  • S: inpouring, inrush, invasion
  • A: outpouring , exodus, departure
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PALLOR

  • An extreme or unnatural paleness
  • S: wanness, lividness, bloodlessness
  • A: flush, blush, rosiness, bloom
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PEDIGREE

  • A list of ancestors, family tree; the history or origins of something
  • S: lineage, ancestry, genealogy
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PROFUSE

  • Very abundant; given or flowing freely
  • S: extravagant, lavish, bounteous, plenteous
  • A: sparse, scanty, meager, insufficient
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RECONCILE

  • To restore to friendship; to settle; to resign (oneself)
  • S: unite, conciliate, mend fences
  • A: antagonize, alienate, drive a wedge between
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SHACKLE

  • To put into chains; a chain, fetter
  • S: manacle, enslave; handcuffs, bonds, irons
  • A: free, unfetter, emancipate, liberate
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THREADBARE

  • Shabby, old and worn
  • S: frayed, seedy, ragged, shopworn, trite
  • A: luxurious, plush, costly, sumptuous
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