WILL HERZOG

AUXILIARY

• Adj- giving assistance. N- a helper.
• Syn- additional.
• Ant- main; primary
• The elderly can be very weak and may need an auxiliary to help them along.

CANDID

• Adj- frank, sincere
• Syn- forthright
• Ant-insincere
• The teacher gave a candid response to the student who kept asking all of the questions.

CUBICLE

• N- small room or compartment
• Syn-hole-in-the-wall
• Ant- vast hall
• The man was very poor and could only afford to live in a cubicle.

DRUDGERY

• N- work that is hard and tiresome
• Syn- toil
• Ant- play
• The long drudgery in the factory made the boy extremely exaughsted.

ENVOY

• N- a representative or messenger
• Syn- emissary
• The general was to scared to talk to his enemy so he sent an envoy to speak for him.

ESCALATE

• V- to elevate
• Syn- raise
• Ant- decrease
• As the two boys glared angrily at each other the tension between them escalated.

EXPEDIENT

• N- a means to end. Adj- useful
• Syn-device
• Ant- inconvenient
• After years of war between Germany and Fance they finally reached and expedient.

FEIGN

• V- to pretend
• Syn- fake
• The little brother always loved to feign to get his older brother in trouble.

FLAIR

• N- a natural quality
• Syn- bent
• Ant- joyful
• The boys blue eyes were a flair and were not fake from contacts.

GRIEVOUS

• Adj- causing sorrow and pain
• Syn- painful
• Ant- joyful
• The student made a grievous decision by copying off of his friend bc he got all of the answers wrong.

HETEROGENEOUS

• Adj-composed of different kinds
• Syn-crowd
• Ant- few
• In New York City there are heterogeneous mixes of people all around.

HORDE

• N-a vast number
• Syn-crowd
• Ant- few
• The horde of cows came stomping down the farm and started mowing everyone over.

IMPEL

• V- to force
• Syn-urge
• Ant-discourage
• The president wanted to impel all of the illegal immigrants out of his country.

INCREDULOUS

• Adj- disbelieving
• Syn-mistrustful
• The incredulous boy lied to his teacher again about leaving his homework at his house.

INSCRIBE

• V- to write or engage
• Syn-enroll
• Ant- erase
• The scribe inscribed the hieroglyphics into the papyrus and then gave it to his master.

MONOLOGUE

• N- a speech given by one actor
• Syn-soliloquy
• As Shakespeare wrote his plays he gave many of his characters monologues to say during it.

PROGNOSIS

• N- a forecast of the probable course of a situation
• Syn- projection
• The weatherman gave a prognosis for the weather of the upcoming week.

RASPING

• Adj- with a harsh and grating sound
• Syn-scraping
• Ant- smooth
• The teacher made a rasping sound as she scraped her nails across the chalk board.

REPUGNANT

• Adj- offensive
• Syn- hateful
• Ant- pleasing
• The mean boy kept making repugnant comments toward the little kids in his class which made them feel bad.

SCUTTLE

• V- to sink a ship by cutting holes in it.
• Syn-non buoyant
• Ant- floating
• The titanic didn't stay afloat because the ice burg scuttled it causing it to sink.