UNIT 9

ALLOCATE

• (V) to set apart or designate for a soecial purpose; to distribute
• Syn: assign, allot, distribute
• I allocated my food to the poor realizing that they need it more then me.

ARDENT

• (Adj) Very enthusiastic, impassioned
• Syn: intense, fervent, avid
• Ant: indifferent, stolid, phlegmatic, apathetic
• I was ver ardent that we received a puppy for Christmas.

ASSIDUOUS

• (Adj) persistent, attentive, diligent
• Syn: industrious, unremitting, sedulous
• Ant: lazy, lackadaisical, shiftless
• The workers who got a raise were very assiduous.

BRASH

• (Adj) prone to act in a hasty manner; impudent
• Syn: rash, impetuous, brazen
• Ant: prudent, wary, circumspect
• My moms a brash leader at her work.

CAPRICIOUS

• (Adj) subject to whims or passing fancies
• Syn: impulsive, fickle, unpredictable, mercurial
• Ant: constant, steady, unweaving
• I am a capricious person by giving the right amount to everyone.

CHASTISE

• (V) to inflict physical punishment as a means of correction, to scold severely
• Syn: discipline, censure
• Ant: commend, reward
• I chastise my son by spanking him for not listening to me.

COPIOUS

• (Adj) abundant, plentiful, wordy verbose
• Syn: ample, profuse, bountiful
• Ant: inadequate, meager, scanty, concise
• He had a copious amount of words in his essay, as it went on forever.

DEVIATE

• (V) to turn aside, to stray from a norm (N) one who departs from a norm
• The cat deviated from the house because of the kids not treating it right.
• (Adj) differing from a norm, heterodox, unconventionally
• Syn: (v) diverge, veer, swerve
• Ant:(v) conform to, abide by, (adj) orthodox

EMACIATED

• (Adj. part) unnaturally thin
• Syn: withered, shriveled
• Ant: plump, fat, obese, corpulent
• The emaciated women could fit through almost any space.

EXULT

• (V) to rejoice greatly
• Syn: revel, glory
• Ant: mope,msulk,mregret,mrue, lament
• We exulted when we found out that he past his test.

GNARLED

• (Adj) knotted, twisted, lumpy
• Syn: knotty, misshapen, contorted
• Any: smooth, unblemished, straight
• The gnarled wires got so confusing, i just went and bought new ones.

INDEMNITY

• (N) a payment for damage or loss
• Syn: compensation, reparation
• The indemnity from the twister was so much thta we had to move.

INKLING

• (N) a hint, a vague notion
• Syn:clue , intimation, suggestion
• Inkling where we found it, my brother could not find it.

LIMPID

• (Adj) clear, trasparent, readily understood
• Syn: lucid, intelligible,
• Ant: murky, opaque
• The diamond ring was so limpid that everyone noticed it.

OMNIPOTENT

• (Adj) almighty, having unlimited power and authority
• Syn: all-powerful
• Ant: powerless, inpotent, weak
• God is the only beijg thats omnipotent.

PALATABLE

• (Adj) agreeable to the taste or one's sensibility
• Syn: edible, appetizing, attractive
• Ant: inedible, distasteful, disagreeable
• The smell that came from the kitchenn was so palatable, i could taste.

POIGNANT

• (Adj) deeply affecting, touching, keen or share taste or smell
• Syn: hearteending, melancholy
• Ant: unaffecting, bland, vapid, insipid, funny
• Watching snow falling, slowly and softly, its such a poignant sight.

RANCOR

• (N) bitter resentment or ill-will
• Syn: animosity, enmity, bitterness
• Ant: goodwill, harmony, rapport, amity
• When i play football, a little rancor comes into me.

SOPHOMORIC

• (Adj) immature and overconfident, conceited
• Syn: pretentious, superficial, fatuous
• Ant: mature, judicious, knowledgeable
• The sophmoric kids were so immature by picking on kids 5 years younger then them.

SPONTANEOUS

• (Adj) arising naturally, not planed or engineered in advanced
• Syn: unpremeditated, unplanned, impromptu,
• Ant: premeditated, planned,contrived
• It was so spontaneous when the demon came at the camera in the horror movie.