Vocab Unit 11
Published on Dec 10, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
ALLUDE (V.)
- To refer to casually or indirectly
- SYN: suggest, insinuate, hint at, intimate
CLAIRVOYANT (ADJ, N)
- Supernaturally perceptive; one who possesses extrasensory powers
- SYN: insightful, discerning, visionary
- ANT: blind, unseeing, myopic, dense
CONCLUSIVE (ADJ)
- Serving to settle and issue; final
- SYN: decisive, indisputable, defintitive
- ANT: unsettled, provisional, indefinite
DISREPUTABLE (ADJ)
- Not respectable, not esteemed
- SYN: disgraceful, discreditable, shady
- ANT: honest, aboveboard, respectable
ENDEMIC (ADJ)
- Native or confined to a particular region or people; characteristic of or prevalent in a field
- SYN: indigenous, restricted to
- ANT: alien, foreign, extraneous
EXEMPLARY (ADJ)
- Worthy of imitation, commendable; serving as a model
- SYN: sterling, illustrative, praiseworthy, meritorious
- ANT: infamous, notorious, scandalous, disreputable
FATHOM (V, N)
- To understand, get to the bottom of; determine the depth of; measure of water depth
- SYN: grasp, comprehend, figure out, plumb
GUILE (N)
- Treacherous cunning, deceit
- SYN: trickery, duplicity, chicanery
- ANT: candor, artlessness, plain dealing
INTEGRITY (N)
- Honesty, high moral standards; unimpaired condition, completeness, soundness
- SYN: rectitude, probity
- ANT: dishonesty, corruption, turpitude
ITINERARY (N)
- A route of travel; a fecord of travel; a guidebook
- SYN: schedule, program
MISCONTRUE (V)
- To interpret wrongly, mistake the meaning of
- SYN: misjudge, misinterpret
OBNOXIOUS (ADJ)
- Highly offensive, arousing strong dislike
- SYN: disagreeable, repugnant, hateful, odious
- ANT: agreeable, pleasing engaging
PLACATE (V)
- To appease, soothe, pacify
- SYN: satisfy, mollify, allay, conciliate
- ANT: vex, irk, provoke, annoy
PLACID (ADJ)
- Calm, peaceful
- SYN: undisturbed, tranquil, quiet, serene
- ANT: stormy, agitated, turbulent,
PLAGIARISM (N)
- Passing off or using as ones own writing of another person
- SYN: piracy, theft
POTENT (ADJ)
- Powerful; highly effective
- SYN: mighty, forecful, formitable
- ANT: weak, inept, feckless, powerless
PRETEXT (N)
- A false reason, deceptive excuse
- SYN: pretense, cover story, rationale, evasion
PROTRUDE (V)
- To stick out, thrust forth
- SYN: project, jut out, bulge
STARK (ADJ, ADV)
- Harsh, unrelieved, desolate; utterly
- SYN: sheer, downright, grim, absolutely
- ANT: bright, cheerful, ornate
SUPERFICIAL (ADJ)
- On or near the surface, concerned with or understanding only what is on the surface, shallow
- SYN: skin-deep, cursory, slapdash
- ANT: deep, profound, thorough, exhaustive
