ENGLISH VOACABULARY UNIT 9

AUXILIARY

• Def:(adj.) giving assistance or support; (n.) a helper; aid
• (Syn.) additional; (n.) reserve, accessory
• (Ant.) main, primary, principal
• An assistant principle is an auxiliary to the principle.

CANDID

• (Adj.) frank, sincere; impartial; unposed
• (Syn.) forthright, plainspoken, unbiased
• (Ant.) insincere, evasive, misleading, artful
• The man had a candid response about the book.

CUBICLE

• (N.) a small room or compartment
• (Syn.) hold-in-the-wall
• (Ant.) vast hall, auditorium
• Her work space is almost like a cubicle, yet is still spacious.

DRUDGERY

• (N.) a work that is hard and tiresome
• (Syn.) toil, labor, grind
• (Ant.) play, frolic, amusement, fun
• Being a cole miner involves a lot of drudgery.

ENVOY

• (N.) a representative or messenger (as of a government)
• (Syn) ambassador, minister
• Countries all over the world have envoys to represent them.

ESCALATE

• (V.) to elevate; to increase in intensity
• (Syn) raise, ascend, mount
• (Ant.) decrease, lessen, descend
• The Miami Heat tend to escalate there style of play when the playoffs start.

EXPEDIENT

• (N.) means to an end; (adj.) advantageous, useful
• (Syn.) contrivance, device; (adj.) serviceable
• (Ant.) [adj.] inconvenient, untimely, disadvangeous
• As the man grew older he became a lot less than expedient.

FEIGN

• (V.) to pretend
• (Syn) fake, sham, affect, simulate
• People sometimes feign having to help family members to not go out with friends.

FLAIR

• (N.) a natural quality, talent, or skill; a distinctive style
• (Syn) bent, knack, gift
• (Ant) inability, incapacity
• The graffiti artist had a certain flair with all his art.

GRIEVOUS

• (Adj.) causing sorrow or pain; serious
• (Syn.) painful, flagrant
• (Ant.) joyful, uplifting
• The football team had a grievous championship loss.

HETEROGENEOUS

• (Adj.) composed of different kinds, diverse
• (Syn.) mixed, variegated
• (Ant.) uniform, of a piece
• The school is full of heterogenous students.

Horde

• (N.) a vast number (as of people) ; a throng
• (Syn.) crowd, mass
• (Ant.) few, handful
• My grandmother hordes on to a lot of old things.

IMPEL

• (V.) to force, drive forward
• (Syn) urge, push
• (Ant.) discourage, restrain
• He impelled the knife in his heart.

INCREDULOUS

• (Adj.) disbelieving, skeptical
• (Syn.) mistrustful,
• (Ant.) believing, trustful
• He was in s incredulous state after his mom passed.

INSCRIBE

• (V.) to write or engrave
• Syn: enroll, enlist
• Ant: erase, rub out
• His name is inscribed in his moms bracelet.

MONOLOGUE

• (N.) a speec by one actor
• Syn: soliloquy
• Ant: colloquy
• Mark Antony had a powerful monologue in Julius Caesar.

PROGNOSIS

• (N.) a forecast of the probable course and outcome of a disease and situation.
• Syn: projection
• The doctor gave the patient a awesome prognosis for her leg recovery.

RASPING

• (Adj.) with a harsh grating sound
• Syn: scraping, gravelly
• Ant: smooth, silky
• The laurinjitis mad her voice really raspy.

REPUGNANT

• (Adj) offensive, disagreeable, distasteful
• Syn: hateful
• Ant: complement
• Her response was so repugnant people began to dislike her.

SCUTTLE

• To sink a ship by cutting holes in it.
• (Abandon
• Ant: keep afloat
• They scuttled the boat in water.