Vocabulary Vocabulary 11
Published on Dec 11, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
ALLUDE
- To refer to casually or indirectly
- Synonyms: suggest, insinuate, intimate
- In his speech the candidate alluded to his opponents lack of military experience
CLAIRVOYANT
- Supernatural perceptive; one who possesses extrasensory powers, seer
- Synonyms: insightful, discerning, uncanny; visionary
- Antonym: blind, unseeing, myopic, dense
- To her credit, she wasn't clairvoyant, but she should have had more faith in him.
CONCLUSIVE
- Serving to settle an issue; final
- Synonym: decisive, convincing, definitive
- Antonym: unsettled, provisional, indefinite
- The x-rays were conclusive and indicated a bad infection in the lower lobe of one lung.
DISREPUTABLE
- Not respectable, not esteemed
- Synonym: disgraceful, discreditable, shady
- Antonym: honest, aboveboard, respectable, creditable
- Parkside was nothing more than an innocent battleground for disreputable elements of our society, at war with one another.
ENDEMIC
- Native or confined to a particular region or people; characteristic of or prevalent in a field
- Synonym: indigenous, restricted to
- Antonym: alien, foreign, extraneous
- Ferns are prominent among the flora, about one-third of which consists of endemic species.
EXEMPLARY
- Worthy of imitation, commendable; serving as a model
- Synonym: praiseworthy, meritorious, sterling, illustrative
- Antonym: infamous, notorious, scandalous, disreputable
- Margaret of Parma meanwhile, with the aid of a considerable body of German mercenaries, had inflicted exemplary punishment upon the iconoclasts and Calvinist sectaries.
FATHOM
- To understand, get to the bottom of; to determine the depth of; a measure of depth in water
- Synonym: grasp, figure out, plumb
- Try as I might, I could fathom no reason why he'd perpetrate such a complex fraud.
GUILE
- Treacherous cunning, deceit
- Synonym: trickery, chicanery
- Antonym: candor, artlessness, plain dealing
- The incident, whether due to chance or guile, brought about the resignation of Crispi.
INTEGRITY
- Honesty, high moral standards, an unimpaired condition, completeness, soundness
- Synonym: restitute, probity
- Antonym: dishonesty, corruption, turpitude
- I want assurances from you and that horrid old Mr. O'Connor that the integrity of my family name will not be stained with unproven lies!
ITINERARY
- A route of travel, a record of travel; a guide book
- Synonym: schedule, program
- He failed to discuss his itinerary but commented freely on how he'd enjoyed the weekend.
MISCONSTRUE
- To interpret wrongly, mistake the meaning of
- Synonym: misjudge, misinterpret
- The finality of the New Testament is partly due to its being the work of minds - including St Paul - who knew the Old Testament from the inside, and did not misconstrue its religious terminology as Greek converts almost inevitably did (cf.
OBNOXIOUS
- Highly offensive, arousing strong dislike
- Synonym: disagreeable, repugnant, hateful, odious
- Antonym: agreeable, pleasing, engaging, personable
- Dean cursed himself for not wanting to talk to the redheaded deputy, who would have been infinitely preferable to this obnoxious jerk.1
PLACATE
- To appease, sooth, pacify
- Synonym: satisfy, mollify, allay, concillate
- Antonym: vex, irk, provoke, exasperate, annoy
- Everything considered, it was easier to make the decision to take the job than to placate Mary.
PLACID
- Calm, peaceful
- Synonym: undisturbed, tranquil, quiet, serene
- Antonym: stormy, agitated, turbulent, tempestuous
- Strange how such a placid moment could stir up such emotional turmoil.
POTENT
- Powerful, highly effective
- Synonym: mighty, formidable, forceful
- Antonym: weak, inept, feckless, powerless, ineffective
- Too aware of him, she tensed as he crouched beside her, the scent too potent to be a dream.
PRETEXT
- A false, reason, deceptive excuse
- Synonym: pretense, cover story, rationale, evasion
- Unlike the priest, Mayer made no pretext that Byrne wasn't as dead as a Jacob Marley's knocker and, as Mayer described, was "walking the streets of gold with the angels."
PROTURDE
- To stick out, thrust forth
- Synonym: project, bulge
- Extraordinary increase in length during the breeding season causes the vasa deferentia in some of the African weaverbirds to protrude, or to bulge out the cloacal walls beyond the vent. 1
REPARATION
- A payment made for a wrong or an injury
- Synonym: compensation, damages, redress
- How do you think it feels to live with the regret that stems from having done something beyond reparation to someone as beautiful as she is in this life?1 1
STARK
- Harsh, unrelieved, desolate
- Synonym: sheer, downright, grim, bleak
- Antonym: bright, cheerful, ornate
- The exchange was a stark testimony to the incongruities of man versus woman, and the pending adjustments of our marriage, looming ahead.
SUPERFICIAL
- On or near the surface, concerned with or understanding only what is on the surface
- Synonym: skin-deep, insubstantial, cursory
- Antonym: deep, profound, thorough
- The finer mind of the nation, represented mainly by the prophets from Amos onward, had denounced unsparingly the superficial non-moral popular cult.
