Unit 4 Vocabulary Words😃
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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ALLIANCE
- A joining together for some common purpose.
- Synonyms: pact, league, coalition
- Antonyms: rift, split
BEWILDER
- To puzzle completely, confuse
- Synonyms: baffle, perplex
- Antonyms: set straight, enlighten
BUFFOON
- A clown; a course,stupid person
- Synonyms: jester, fool
CONTROVERSIAL
- Arousing argument,dispute,or disagreement
- Synonyms: arguable, debatable
DISHEARTEN
- To discourage
- Synonyms: dismay, demoralize, dispirit
- Antonyms: encourage, hearten
FRUITLESS
- Not producing the desired results,unsuccessful
- Synonyms: useless, vain, unproductive, futile
- Antonyms: productive,effective
HOSTILE
- Unfriendly; unfavorable; warlike, agressive.
- Antonyms: friendly,cordial, peaceful
INFLAMMABLE
- Easily set on fire; easily angered or aroused
- Synonyms: combustible, flammable, excitable
- Antonyms: fireproof, fire-resistant, calm
INFLICT
- To give or cause something unpleasant, impose
- Synonyms: deal out, visit upon
- Antonyms: suffer, undergo, sustain
MALIGNANT
- Deadly, extremely harmful, evil; spiteful,malicious
- Synonyms: lethal, wicked
- Antonyms: wholesome, beneficial, benign
MORTIFY
- To hurt someone's feelings deeply; to cause embarrassment or humiliation
- Synonyms: humiliate, embarrass, abash
ORTHODOX
- In agreement with established or generally accepted beliefs or ways of doing things.
- Synonyms: traditional, standard, customary
- Antonyms: unusual, unconventional, heretical
PROCURE
- To obtain through special effort; to bring about
- Synonyms: gain, acquire, achieve
SCURRY
- To run quickly, scamper, hurry
- Synonyms: rush, dash, scramble
- Antonyms: trudge, plod, creep,crawl
SODDEN
- Soaked with liquid or moisture; expressionless, dull;
- Synonyms: drenched, waterlogged, saturated
- Antonyms: parched, arid
SPIRITED
- Full of life and vigor; courageous
- Synonyms: lively, antimated, gallant
- Antonyms: lifeless, dull, lackluster
VIRTUAL
- Having a certain force or effect in fact but not in name.
- Synonyms: functioning as, equivalent to
VOID
- Completely empty; having no legal force or effect.
- Synonyms: invalid, vacant, bare
- Antonyms: in effect, teaming with; confirm
WAYWARD
- Disobedient, willful; unpredictable, capricious
- Synonyms: perverse
- Antonyms: docile, well -behaved, predictable
WINCE
- To draw back suddenly,as though in pain or fear.
- Synonyms: flinch, shudder, recoil
