ADEPT

• Thoroughly skilled
• Syn: Masterful, proficient
• Ant: Clumsy, novice
• In order to be a professional, you must be adept.

ASPIRE

• To have ambition
• Syn: yearn, aim for
• I aspire to play certain songs on the piano, more than others.

BLEAK

• Bare, dreary
• Syn: grim, cheerless
• Ant: rosy, cheerful
• A makeover can take your from being dreary to cheerful.

CHIDE

• To blame, scold
• Syn: upbraid, reprimand, rebuke
• Ant: approve, praise
• The player was chided by the coach for not bunting when told.

DESPICABLE

• Worthy of scorn, contemptible
• Syn: low, cheap
• Ant: praiseworthy, commendable
• If you aren't fond of somebody, you may think of them as despicable.

DIMINUATIVE

• Small, smaller than most.
• Syn: undersized, tiny
• Ant: oversized, gigantic
• A lumberjack is the opposite of diminutive.

EMANCIPATE

• To free from slavery, to release or liberate
• Syn: set loose, unchain
• Ant: accurate, correct
• Harriet Tubman helped emancipate slaves

ERRONEOUS

• Incorrect, containing mistakes
• Syn: mistaken, fallacious
• Ant: accurate, correct, exact
• Most of his answers were erroneous; therefore he failed the test.

EXPLOIT

• To make use of, develop
• Syn: turn to advantage, misuse
• If somebody trusts you, do not exploit it.

EXTEMPORANEOUS

• Made or delivered on the spot
• Syn: spontaneous
• Ant: planned, prepared
• During the Speech, he had to make some extemporaneous lines because of the unexpected questions.

IMPAIR

• To make imperfect, damage, harm
• Syn: injure, disable, cripple
• Ant: planned, prepared

INVICIBLE

• Not able to be dfeated
• Syn:unconquerable
• Ant: Vulnerable
• Superman is invincible, to everything but kryptonite.

LANGUID

• Droopy, sluggish
• Syn: lazy, slack
• Ant: lively energetic
• If you are languid in school, you will do very poorly.

MIRE

• Mud, swampy,
• Syn: swamp, bog
• The mire was very wet and muddy.

OBTRUSIVE

• Forward, sticking out
• Syn : brash, conspicuous
• Ant: reserved
• The stick was obtrusive, he therefore tripped on it.

PREAMBLE

• An intro to a speech or writing
• Syn: prologue, preliminary
• Ant: ending, closing
• The preamble to the book gave me a lot of information.

RENDER

• To cause, to become, to perform
• Syn: present, furnish
• I rendered the long list of names.

RUGGED

• Rough, irregular, severe
• Syn: rocky, blunt, hard
• Ant: smooth, flat, soft
• His voice is very rugged due to his illness.

SKEPTICAL

• Inclined to doubt, slow to accept
• Syn: suspicious, incredulous
• Ant: credulous, gullible
• Scientists are very skeptical on ideas without valid backing.

SLIPSHOD

• Untidy, messy
• Syn: untidy, cursory
• Ant: tidy, neat, orderly
• His mother yelled at him for his slipshod room.

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