VOCABULARY UNIT 9

ALLOCATE (V.)

• To set apart or designate for a special purpose
• to distribute
• Synonyms: assign, allot, distribute

ARDENT (ADJ.)

• very enthusiastic, impassioned
• Synonyms: intense, fervent, avid
• Antonyms: indifferent, stolid, phlegmatic, apatheic

ASSIDUOUS (ADJ.)

• persistent, attentive, diligent
• Synonyms: industrious, unremitting, sedulous
• Antonyms: lazy, lackadaisical, shiftless

BRASH (ADJ.)

• prone to act in a hasty manner
• impudent
• Synonyms: rash, impetuous, brazen
• Antonyms: prudent, wary, circumspect

CAPRICIOUS (ADJ.)

• Subject to whims of passing fancies
• Synonyms: impulsive, fickle, unpredictable, mercurial
• Antonyms: constant, steady, unwavering

CHASTISE (V.)

• to inflict physical punishment as a means of corporal scold severely.
• Synonyms: discipline, censure
• Antonyms: commend, reward

COPIOUS (ADJ.)

• abundant
• plentiful
• wordy, verbose
• Synonyms: ample, profuse, bountiful
• Antonyms: inadequate, meager, scanty, concise

DEVIATE (V.), (N.), (ADJ.)

• (v.) to turn aside; to stray from a norm
• (n.) one who departs from a norm
• (adj) differing from a norm, heterodox, unconventional
• Synonyms: (v.) diverge, veer, swerve
• Antonyms: (v.) conform to, abide by; (adj.) orthodox

EMACIATED (ADJ, PART.)

• unnaturally thin
• Synonyms: withered, shriveled
• Antonyms: plump, fat, obese, corpulent

EXULT (V.)

• to rejoice greatly
• Synonyms: revel, glory
• Antonyms: mope, sulk, regret, rue, lament

GNARLED (ADJ.)

• knotted, twisted, lumpy
• Synonyms: knotty, misshapen, contorted
• Antonyms: smooth, unblemished, straight

INDEMNITY (N.)

• a payment for damage or loss
• Synonyms: compensation, reparation

INKLING (N.)

• a hint
• a vague notion
• Synonyms: clue, intimation, suggestion

LIMPID (ADJ.)

• clear, transparent
• readily understood
• Synonyms: lucid, intelligible
• Antonyms: murky, opaque

OMNIPOTENT (ADJ.)

• almighty, having unlimited power or authority
• Synonyms: all-powerful
• Antonyms: powerless, impotent, weak

PALATABLE (ADJ.)

• agreeale to the taste or one's sensibilities
• suitable for consumption
• Synonyms: edible, appetizing, attractive
• Antonyms: inedible, distasteful, disagreeable

POIGNANT (ADJ.)

• deeply affecting, touching
• keen or sharp in taste or smell
• Synonyms: heartrending, melancholy
• Antonyms: unaffecting, bland, vapid, insipid, funny

RANCOR (N.)

• bitter resentment or ill-will
• Synonyms: animosity, enmity, bitterness
• Antonyms: goodwill, harmony, rapport, amity

SOPHOMORIC (ADJ.)

• Immature and overconfident
• conceited
• Synonyms: pretentious, superficial, fatuous
• Antonyms: mature, judicious, knowledgeable

SPONTANEOUS (ADJ.)

• arising naturally
• not planned or engineered in advance
• Synonyms: unpremeditated, unplanned, impromptu
• Antonyms: premediated, planned, contrived