Unit 11
Published on Nov 21, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
ALLUDE
- To refer to casually or indirectly
- Syn: suggest, insinuate, hint at, intimate
CLAIRVOYANT
- Supernaturally perceptive; one who possesses extrasensory powers, seer
- Syn: insightful, discerning, uncanny; visionary
- Ant: blind, unseeing, myopic, dense, imperceptive
CONCLUSIVE
- Serving to settle an issue; final
- Syn: desisive, indisputable, convincing, definitive
- Ant: unsettled, provisional, indefinite
DISREPUTABLE
- Not respectable, not esteemed
- Syn: disgraceful, discreditable, shady
- Ant: honest, aboveboard, respectable, creditable
ENDEMIC
- Native or confined to a particular region or people; characteristics of or prevent in a field
- Syn: indigenous, restricted to
- Ant: alien, foreign, extraneous
EXEMPLARY
- Worthy of imitation, commendable; serving as a model
- Syn:praiseworthy, meritorious, sterling, illustravtive
- Ant: infamous, notorious, scandalous, disreputable
FATHOM
- To understand, get to the bottom of; to determine the depth of;a measure of depth in water
- Syn: grasp, comprehend, figure out, plumb
GUILE
- Treacherous cunning, deceit
- Syn: trickery, duplicity, chicanery
- Ant: candor, artlessness, naïveté, plain dealing
INTEGRITY
- Honestly, high moral standards
- Syn: rectitude,probity
- Ant: dishonesty, corruption, turpitude
ITINERARY
- A route of travel; a record of travel
- Syn: schedule, program
MISCONSTRUE
- To interpret wrongly, mistake the meaning of
- Syn: misjudge, misinterpret
OBNOXIOUS
- Highly offensive, arousing strong dislike
- Syn: disagreeable, repugnant, hateful, odious
- Ant: Agreeable, pleasing, engaging, personable
PLACATE
- To appease, soothe, pacify
- Syn: satisfy,mollify, allay, concillate
- Ant: vex, irk, provoke, exasperate, annoy
PLACID
- Calm, peaceful
- Syn: undisturbed, tranquil, quiet, serene
- Ant: stormy, agitated, turbulent, tempestuous
PLAGIARISM
- Passing off or using as ones own the writing of another person
- Syn: piracy, theft
POTENT
- Powerful; highly effective
- Syn: mighty, formidable, forceful
- Ant: weak, inept, feckless, powerless, ineffective
PRETEXT
- A false reason, deceptive excuses
- Syn: pretense, cover story, rationale, evasion
PROTRUDE
- To stick out, thrust forth
- Syn: project, jut out, bulge
STARK
- Harsh, unrelieved, desolate; utterly
- Syn: sheer, downright, grim, bleak, absolutely
- Ant: bright, cheerful, embellished, ornate
SUPERFICIAL
- On or near the surface; concerner with or understanding only what is on the surface
- Syn: skin-deep, insubstantial, cursory, slapdash
- Ant: deep, profound, thorough, exhaustive
