VOCABULARY UNIT 9

ALLOCATE

• (v) To set apart or designate for a special purpose, to distribute.
• Assign, allot, distribute
• We need to allocate your strengths to help others' weaknesses in order to succeed.

ARDENT

• (adj) Very enthusiastic, impassioned.
• Intense, fervid, avid
• Indifferent, stolid, phlegmatic, apathetic
• Our student section gets very ardent when we play St. Joes because we want to beat them.

ASSIDUOUS

• (adj) Persistent, attentive, diligent
• Industrious, unremitting, sedulous
• Lazy, lackadaisical, shiftless
• Max Tell is the most assiduous student I know, slending hours on end studying.

BRASH

• (adj) prone to act in a hasty manner; impudent.
• Rash, impetuous, brazen
• Prudent, wary, circumspect
• Journalists need to be brash in order to ask lots of good questions.

CAPRICIOUS

• (adj) subject to whims or passing fancies
• Impulsive, fickle, unpredictable, mercurial
• Constant, steady, unwavering
• You can't just make capricious purchases when money is tight because we need it.

CHASTISE

• (v) To inflict physical punishment as a means of correction; to scold severely.
• Discipline, censure
• Commend, reward
• My dad is going to chastise me when he finds out I didn't clean my room.

COPIOUS

• (adj) Abundant; plentiful; wordy, verbose.
• Ample, profuse, bountiful
• Inadequate, meager, scanty, concise
• Max Tell takes copious amounts of notes so he does well on tests.

DEVIATE

• (v) To turn aside, to stray from a norm. (n) One who departs from a norm.
• (adj) Differing from a norm, heterodox, unconventional.
• (v) diverge, veer, swerve
• (v) conform to, abide by (adj) orthodox
• If you deviate from the instructions you will do the assignment wrong.

EMACIATED

• (adj) unnaturally thin.
• Withered, shrivled
• Plump, fat, obese, corpulent
• Ben Jarmusz is a very emaciated person because he was born skinny.

EXULT

• (v) To rejoice greatly
• Revel, glory
• Mope, sulk, regret, rue, lament
• We are going to exult in the stands after we win the game.

GNARLED

• (adj) Knotted, twisted, lumpy
• Knotty, misshapen, contorted
• Smooth, unblemished, straight
• His muscles were gnarled after the intense workout.

INDEMNITY

• (n) A payment for damage or loss
• Compensation, reparation
• I need to give Jack te indemnity for breaking his window. To

INKLING

• (n)A hint, a vague notion
• Clue, intimation, suggestion
• I need an inkling to finish this puzzle.

LIMPID

• (adj) Clear, transparent, readily understood.
• Lucid, inteligible
• Murky, opaque
• I had such a limpid dream that i thought i was actually in real life.

OMNIPOTENT

• (adj) almighty, having unlimited power or authority.
• All-powerful
• Powerless
• Catholics believe that God is omnipotent because he has limitless power.

PALATABLE

• (adj) agreeable to the taste or one's sensibilities.
• Edible, appatizing, attractive
• Inedible, distasteful, disagreeable
• The food at his house was paletable and very delicious

POLGANT

• (adj) deeply affecting, touching.
• Heartrending, melancholy
• Unnafecting, bland
• He made a polgant speech that brought some to tears.

RANCOR

• (n) bitter resentment or ill-will
• Animosity, emnity, bitterness
• Goodwill, harmony, rapport, amity
• We have rancor with our next door neighbors and i don't think that we will ever be friends

SOPHOMORIC

• (adj) immature and overconfident, conceited
• Pretentious, superficial, fatual
• Mature, judicial, knowlegable
• Sophomores at our school act very sophomoric so people dont like them.

SPONTANEOUS

• (adj) arising naturally; not planned or engineered in advance
• Unpremeditated, unplanned, impromptu
• Premeditated, planned, contrived
• The whole day was spontaneous, not knowing where we would go next.