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Vocab Unit 8

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1.

ABUT(V.)

  • Synonyms: border on, bolster
  • Their vacation home abuts the large lake.
2.

AVAIL (V. N.)

  • Synonyms: none
  • Antonyms: none
  • You must avail yourself to all the extra services to learn as much as possible.
3.

CRONY(N.)

  • Synonyms: pal, friend
  • Antonyms: adversary, rival, enemy
  • Those two have been cronies since they were in kindergarten.
4.

CRYPTIC (ADJ.)

  • Antonyms: crystal clear in meaning, unambiguous
  • No synonyms
  • The cryptic clues led to fifteen useless locations confusing everyone.
5.

DIVERGENT (ADJ.)

  • Synonyms: not in agreement, differing, unorthodox, unconventional
  • Antonyms: merging, intersecting, converging, orthodox, conventional
  • Democrats and republicans have divergent political beliefs
6.

ENMITY (N.)

  • Synonyms: hostility, animosity
  • Antonyms: friendship, amity
  • The athlete felt much enmity towards the other teams showoff.
7.

FERVENT (ADJ.)

  • Synonyms:enthusiastic, burning, blazing, scorching,
  • Antonyms: blase, apathetic, restrained, emotionless
  • The fervent student never stopped stopped studying biology.
8.

INFILTRATE (V.)

  • Synonyms: slip into, creep into, penetrate
  • Antonyms: none
  • The roots of the huge tree started infiltrating through our concrete driveway
9.

PROXY (N.)

  • Synonyms: proxy
  • Antonyms: none
  • If the president dies the Vice President will step in as his proxy.
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10.

RANKLE (V.)

  • Synonyms: irritate, vex, nettle, irk
  • Antonyms: please, gratify,
  • The rude behavior of the students rankled the teacher.
11.

STINT (V. N.)

  • Synonyms: restrict, scrimp, economize
  • Antonyms: Splurge, squander, lavish
  • He stinted there cash on his credit card and disabled it after he spent 100 dollars.
12.

STOICAL ( ADJ.)

  • Synonyms: unresponsive, impassive
  • Antonyms: Excitable, emotional, hotheaded
  • Because of his stoical behavior, no one knew he had just on the lottery.
13.

UNFLAGGING(ADJ.)

  • Synonyms: steady, undiminished, unremitting
  • Diminishing, drooping, sagging
  • The unflagging volunteer continued to work every weekend without being paid.

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