VOCABULARY UNIT 11

ALLUDE

• Synonyms: suggest, insinuate, intimate
• He alluded to me during his speech in the garden.
• Verb

CLAIRVOYANT

• Synonyms: insightful, discerning, uncanny.
• Antonyms: blind, unseeing, myopic, dense
• The witch was very clairvoyant and powerful.
• Adj

CONCLUSIVE

• Synonyms: decisive, convincing, definitive
• Antonyms: unsettled, provisional, indefinite
• The orders were conclusive and not to be followed up.
• Adj

DISREPUTABLE

• Synonyms: disgraceful, discreditable, shady
• Antonyms: honest, aboveboard, respectable
• The disreputable behavior of Tiger woods is ridiculous and not like him.
• Adj

EXEMPLARY

• Synonyms: praiseworthy, meritorious, sterling, illustrative
• Antonyms: infamous, notorious, scandalous
• I did exemplary work on my science fair project and received first place.
• Adj

FATHOM

• Synonyms: grasp, figure out, plumb
• I can not fathom why my parents did not come home.
• V

GUILE

• Synonyms: trickery, chicanery
• Antonyms: candor, artlessness, plain dealing
• The villain in batman was very guile and cunning.
• N

INTEGRITY

• Synonyms: rectitude, probity
• Antonyms: dishonesty, corruption, turpitude
• Most of the students at Canisius have not integrity at all.

ITINERARY

• Synonyms: schedule, plan
• I had to check my itinerary list to see what i had to do today.

MISCONSTRUE

• Synonyms: misjudge, misinterprete
• Lawyers try to misconstrue every thing that is said against them.

OBNOXIOUS

• Synonyms: disagreeable, repugnant, hateful, odious
• Antonyms: agreeable, pleasing, engaging, personable
• The drunk person at the bar was very obnoxious.

PLACATE

• Synonyms: satisfy, mollify, allay, conciliate
• Antonyms: vex, irk, provoke, annoy
• The nurse tried to placate the doctor and to all of his wishes.

PLACID

• Synonyms: undisturbed, tranquil, quiet
• Antonyms: stormy, turbulent, agiated
• The plane ride t florida was very clam and placid.

POTENT

• Synonyms: mighty, formidable, forceful
• Antonyms: weak, inept, powerless, feckless
• The president is the most potent man in the world.

PRETEXT

• Synonyms: pretense, cover story, rationale, evasion
• I lied and used a pretext reason to skip class.

PROTRUDE

• Synonyms: project, bulge
• The man was eating a lot of food and you could tell be the protrude in his belly.

REPARATION

• Synonyms: compensation, damages, redress
• Germany had to pay France for reparations of world war two.

STARK

• Synonyms: sheer, downright, grim, bleak
• Antonyms: bright, cheerful, embellished, ornate
• The stark life in the desert makes life there inhabitable.

SUPERFICIAL

• Synonyms: skin-deep, cursory, slapdash
• Antonyms: deep, profound, thorough
• The taunts that the other team were saying were very superficial.

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