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Mr. Naess Vocab

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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ADJACENT

ALIGHT

  • D: to get down from, step down from; to come down from the air, land
  • S: dismount, descend, land, touch down
  • A: mount, ascend, board, take off
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BARREN

  • D: not productive bare
  • S: unproductive sterile desolate
  • A: fertile productive fruitful
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DISRUPT

  • D: to break up disturb
  • S: upset displace disorder
  • A:organize arrange

DYNASTY

  • A powerful family or group of rulers that maintains it's position or power
  • S: grueling house regime

FORETASTE

  • D: An advance indication sample or warning
  • S: preview anticipation

GERMINATE

  • D: to begin to grow come into being
  • S: sprout shoot up grow burgeon
  • A: wither die stagnate shrivel up

HUMDRUM

  • D: ordinary dull routine without variation
  • S: monotonous up eventful prosaic boring
  • A: lively exciting thrilling exhilarating

HURTLE

  • D: to rush violently dash headlong; to fling or hurl forcefully
  • S: speed fly race catapult fling
  • A: crawl creep

INSINUATE

  • D: To suggest or hint slyly to edge into something indirectly
  • S: imply intimate
  • A: barge in broadcast
  • He is insinuating the that there is a broken leg on the cookie

INTERMINABLE

  • D: endless so long as to seem endless
  • S: never-ending ceaseless
  • A: brief short fleeting

INTERROGATE

  • D: to ask questions examine by questioning
  • S: questions query

RECOMPENSE

  • D: to pay back to give a reward a payment for loss service or injury
  • S: repay compensation

RENOVATE

  • D: to repair restore to good condition make new again
  • S: repair fix up recondition

RÉSUMÉ

  • D: a brief summary a short written account of one's education working experience
  • S: synopsis job history

SULLEN

  • D: silent or brooding because of ill humor anger or resentment slow moving sluggish
  • S: grumpy surly peevish morose
  • A: cheerful blithe sociable vivacious

TRICKLE

  • D: To flow or fall by drops or in small stream a small irregular quantity
  • S: dribble drizzle drip
  • A: gush pour flood

TRIVIAL

  • D: not important minor ordinary commonplace
  • S: insignificant petty trifling
  • A: important weighty momentous

TRUCE

  • D: a pause in fighting temporary peace
  • S: cease-fire armistice
  • A: war warfare fighting

VICIOUS

  • D: Evil bad spiteful having bad habits or an ugly disposition
  • S: wicked malicious savage
  • A: good kind kindly mild harmless