TROY GOOCH

AUXILIARY

• (Adj) giving assistance; (n) a helper or aid
• (Syn) additional, reserve, accessory
• (Ant) main, primary
• My father is the auxiliary in charge in my house.

CANDID

• (Adj) frank, sincere, impartial
• (Syn) forthright, unbiased
• (Ant) evasive, misleading
• I was candid when I told my friends what had happened.

CUBICLE

• (N) the smallest room or compartment
• (Syn) hole in the wall
• (Ant) vast hall, auditorium
• My bedroom was very cubicle.

DRUDGERY

• (N) work that is tiresome
• (Syn) toil, labor, grind
• (Ant) recreation, fun, amusement
• The workers had endless drudgery after working all day.

ENVOY

• (N) a representative or messenger
• (Syn) ambassador, minister
• The country asked the man to act as a envoy of there country.

ESCALATE

• (V) to elevate; to increase in intensity
• (Syn) raise, ascend, mount
• (Ant) decrease, lessen, descend
• The prices in the market began to escalate.

EXPEDIENT

• (N) a means to an end; (adj) advantageous, useful
• (Syn) contrivance, device
• (Ant) inconvenient, disadvantageous
• The boy took advantage of his expedient talents.

FEIGN

• (V) to pretend
• (Syn) fake, sham, affect
• Children feign there injuries so they get attention.

FLAIR

• (N) a natural quality talent
• (Syn) bent, gift, knack
• (Ant) inability
• The man had a flair for singing.

GRIEVOUS

• (Adj) causing sorrow or pain
• (Syn) painful, flagrant
• (Ant) joyful, upbeat, cheery
• The boy got hit and had grievous pain.

HETEROGENEOUS

• (Adj) composed of different kids
• (Syn) mixed, variegated
• (Ant) uniform, homogenous
• When the man met a knew person he realized both were heterogenous.

HORDE

• (N) a vast number (as of people)
• (Syn) crowd, mass, host
• (Ant) few, handful
• There were a horde amount of people at the game.

IMPEL

• (V) to force, drive forward
• (Syn) urge, push, spur
• (Ant) check, restrain, curb
• A injury may impel people to come back.

INCREDULOUS

• (Adj) disbelieving
• (Syn) mistrust, doubting
• (Ant) believing trustful
• The parents were very incredulous of him as he told the story.

INSCRIBE

• (V) to write or engrave
• (Syn) enroll, enlist
• (Ant) erase, rub-out, delete
• The young man asked if he could inscribe into Canisius.

MONOLOGUE

• (N) a speech by one actor
• (Syn) soliloquy
• (Ant) coversation
• Many characters in Julius Caesar have a monologue.

PROGNOSIS

• (N) A forecast of the probable course.
• (Syn) projection
• The football play was prognosis of getting drafted first.

RASPING

• (Adj) with a harsh sound; (n) harsh sound
• (Syn) scraping, gravelly
• (Ant) smooth, silky
• The old man had a rasping voice.

REPUGNANT

• (Adj) offensive
• (Syn) hateful, revolting, repulsive
• (Ant) pleasing, attractive, tempting
• The man said some very repugnant remarks.

SCUTTLE

• (V) To sink a ship causing holes in it
• (Syn) discard, scrap, ditch
• (Ant) keep, salvage, rescue
• The ship was scuttle because the man put a hole in it.