UNIT 13

ANTIPATHY

• Synonyms: hostility, enmity, aversion, bad blood
• Antonyms: attraction, appeal, allure, sympathy
• Most people have a sense of antipathy towards Hitler.

APPLICABLE

• Synonyms: appropriate, fit, apt, apposite
• Antonyms: inappropriate, unsuitable, irrelevant
• The idea of a cell phone has a lot of applicable uses.

ASSET

• Synonyms: property, holding, endowment
• Antonyms: drawback, handicap, liability
• Some people say your house is your greatest asset.

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COMPASSION

• Synonyms: concern, commiseration, empathy
• Antonyms: indifference, callousness, heartlessness.
• Please show some compassion and help the man out.

BESET

• Synonyms: assail, harass, badger, pester, torment
• The war was on all fronts it was a basset.

DECORUM

• Synonyms: seemliness, good form, proprietary
• Antonyms: impiety, bad form, bad taste.
• The decorum at the four seasons hotel was very nice.

DURESS

• Synonyms: intimidating, coercion
• Antonyms: persuasion, coaxing
• The duress of the robber was very scary.

EXUBERANT

• Synonyms: lively, ebullient, irrepressible, lavish
• Antonyms: depressed, sulky, restrained.

FACSIMILE

• Synonyms: replica, duplicate, clone
• Antonyms variation, modification, permutation
• The car was a facsimile of the one in the movie.

IMBIBE

• Synonyms: swallow, gulp, quaff, digest
• Antonyms: eject, emit, expel, discharge
• We made a deal to imbibe the drink for a small pay.

IMPLACABLE

• Synonyms: relentless, inexorable, unappeasable
• Antonyms: lenient, indulgent, permissive, flexible
• The man at the store was implacable and hated everything.

INFINITESIMAL

• Synonyms: tiny, minuscule
• Antonyms: vast, immense, big
• The amount of weight that he lost was infinitesimal

INNOCUOUS

• Synonyms: feeble, impotent, unobjectionable, inspid
• Antonyms: harmful, dangerous, toxic

MILITATE

• Synonyms: counter, oppose, work against
• We were militant towards the cubans for a long time.

PATENT

• Synonyms: exclusive license, evident
• Antonyms: concealed, hidden, secret
• I have many patents of futuristic ideas.

PROWESS

• Synonyms: valor, courage, heroism, mastery, proficiency
• Antonyms: cowardice, incompetent, ineptitude
• The cat from garfield is always on the prowess.

SEDATE

• Synonyms: unruffled, composed, cool and collected
• Antonyms: loud, brash, flashy, fighty
• We hat to sedate the animal while he was moving.

STENTORIAN

• Synonyms: thundering, deafening, earsplitting
• Antonyms: hushed, inaudible, mute

STIPULATE

• Synonyms: specify, contract, provide for
• My mom had to stipulate for the party.

ULTIMATUM

• Synonyms: final terms
• My wife gave me one last ultimatum.