UNIT 13 VOCAB

ANTIPATHY

• Def:(n.) a strong dislike, hostile feeling
• Syn: hostility, enmity, aversion, bad blood
• Ant: attraction, appeal, allure, sympathy

APPLICABLE

• Def:(adj.) capable of being applied; relevant, suitable
• Syn: appropriate, fit, apt, opposite
• Ant: inappropriate, unsuitable, irrelevant

ASSET

• Def:(n.) something of value; a resource; an advantage
• Syn: property, possession, holding, endowment
• Ant: drawback, handicap, liability

BESET

• Def:(v.) to attack from all sides; to surround, hem in; (adj., part.)
• Syn:(v.) assail, harass, badger, pester, torment

COMPASSION

• Def:(n.) sympathy for another's suffering; pity
• Syn: concern, commiseration. Empathy
• Ant: indifference, callousness, heartlessness

DECORUM

• Def:(n.) proper behavior, good taste; orderliness
• Syn: seemliness, good form, propriety
• Ant: impropriety, bad form, bad taste

DURESS

• Def:(n.) compulsion by threat; forcible confinement
• Syn: intimidation, coercion
• Ant: persuasion, coaxing, sweet talk, cajolery

EXUBERANT

• Def:(adj.) high-spirited, enthusiastic, unrestrained;excessive, abundant
• Syn: lively, ebullient, irrepressible, lavish
• Ant: depressed, despondent, sulky, restrained

FACSIMILE

• Def:(n.) an exact copy
• Syn: replica, duplicate, reproduction, clone
• Ant: variation, modification, permutation

IMBIBE

• Def:(v

IMPLACABLE

INFINITESIMAL

INNOCUOUS

MILITATE

PATENT

PROWESS

SEDATE

STENTORIAN

STIPULATE

ULTIMATUM