UNIT 12

ABJURE

• Synonyms: forswear, retract, abstain from
• Antonyms: affirm, avow, aver
• Obama had to abjure to get into office.

ACRID

• Synonyms: irritating, stinging, bitter
• Antonyms:gentle, soothing, mild
• The smell of john Hepfer was very acrid and disturbing.

AUGUST

• Synonyms: stately, dignified, exalted
• Antonyms: humble, base, mean, lowley
• John Hepfer is not majestic or august.

CALLOUS

• Synonyms: incentive, unsympathetic, thick-skined
• Antonyms: sensitive, compassion
• John Hepfer hands are so callous from all of the video games he plays.

CLANDESTINE

• Synonyms: convert, furtive, surreptitious, stealthy.
• Antonyms: open, covert, aboveboard

COMPUNCTION

• Synonyms: scruple, qualm, misgiving
• Antonyms: shameless, nonchalance
• John Hepfer has great compunction towards his dead sister.

CONFLAGRATION

• Synonyms: holocaust, wildfire
• Antonyms: deluge
• There was a very big conflagration in the forest.

ELATED

• Synonyms: overjoyed, ecstatic, tickled pink
• Antonyms: depressed, blue, sad
• The team was very elated when they lost the game.

INDELIBLE

• Synonyms: lasting, permanent
• Antonyms: erasable, impermanent.
• His exam grade was final and indelible.

INDULGENT

• Synonyms: permissive, tolerant, liberal
• Antonyms: strict, severe, hard-nosed
• The teacher was very indulgent to the poor kids wishes.

INVETERATE

• Synonyms: persisting, chronic, dyed in the wool
• Antonyms: sporadic, occasional
• The supermarket was very established and inveterate.

IRRELEVANT

• Synonyms: inapplicable, immaterial, beside the point.
• Antonyms: pertinent, material, germane
• The political debates are very irrelevant and off topic.

NOCTURNAL

• Synonyms: nighttime
• Antonyms: daytime, diurnal
• Owls are nocturnal so they are up at night.

PLATITUDE

• Synonyms: cliché, truism, bromide
• Antonyms: quip, bon mot, witticism
• The remark was very stupid and platitude.

QUELL

• Synonyms: pacify, squelch, quash, crush
• Antonyms: incite, provoke, arouse, stir up.
• My mom tried to quell the situation by sending us to our rooms.

QUIESCENT

• Synonyms: still, inert, tranquil
• Antonyms: active, thriving, volatile.
• The water was very calm and quiescent.

RUMINATE

• Synonyms: ponder, reflect, muse, mull over
• Monks use time to ruminate and use mediation as a means for a healthy lifestyle.

TACIT

• Synonyms: unexpressed, unvoiced, understood, implicit
• Antonyms: explicit, express, specifically
• The matters were tacit and not spoken of.

TANGIBLE

• Synonyms: perceptible, actual, evident
• Antonyms: immaterial, imperceptible, insubstantial
• It is not even tangible how he made all that money.

TRENCHANT

• Synonyms: penetrating, cutting, telling, acute, telling
• Antonyms: dull, bland, insipid, vapid.
• The party was very trenchant and lively.