UNIT 9 VOCAB

AUXILIARY

• giving assistance or support
• syn: Additional
• ant: Main, primary
• In time of need, John was an auxiliary to Mike.

CANDID

• FRANK, SINCERE, IMPARTIAL
• SYN: FORTHRIGHT, UNBIASED
• ANT: INSINCERE, EVASIVE, MISLEADING
• IS IT OKAY TO BE CANDID WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND IF YOU CHEATED ON HER?

CUBICLE

• a small room
• syn: hole-in-the-wall
• ant: vast hall, auditorium
• When you get a new office job, you probably will only have a cubicle.

DRUDGERY

• Work that is hard and tiresome
• Syn: toil, labor, grind
• Ant: play, frolic, recreation
• In order to make it to the pros, you must put in hours of drudgery.

ENVOY

• a representative or messenger (as of government)
• Syn: ambassador, emissary, minister
• The envoy informed us of our court hearing date.

ESCALATE

• To elevate, to increase in intensity
• Syn: raise, ascend
• Ant: decrease, descend, defuse
• After taking steriods for many months, Barry Bonds escalated to the top of the Home Run Chart

Expedient

• A means to an end.
• Syn: Contrivance, device
• Ant: Inconvenient, untimely
• Either one of us could give into the argument, if it was expedient to do so.

Feign

• To pretend
• Syn: fake, Sham, affect
• People feign characteristics of themselves to make people like them.

Flair

• A natural quality, talent, or skill.
• Syn: bent, knack, gift, style
• Ant: Inability, incapacity
• A magician needs to have skill and flair for acting in order to be successful.

Grievous

• Causing sorrow or pain; serious
• Syn: painful, heatrending, onerous, flagrant
• Ant: Joyful, uplifting, cheery, upbeat
• When his mother died, it was a grievous time in his life.

HETEROGENEOUS

• Composed of different kinds
• Syn: miscellaneous, mixed
• Ant: uniform, homogeneous, of a piece
• When recruiting for a team, the players should be heterogeneous in their skill, so you will be successful.

HORDE

• A vast number (people)
• Syn: Crowd, mass, multitude, hosts
• Ant: few, handful

IMPEL

• To force, drive forward
• Syn: urge, push, spur, propel, incite
• Ant: discourage, check, restrain
• Getting a good job impels me to do well in school.

INCREDULOUS

• Disbelieving
• Syn: mistrustful, doubtful
• Ant: believing, trustworthy
• The prices on the clothes are incredulous

INSCRIBE

• To write or engrave
• Syn: enroll, enlist
• Ant: erase, rub out
• Kids sometimes inscribe their name in the bark of trees

MONOLOUGE

• A speech by one actor; a long talk by one person
• Syn: soliloquy
• Ant: cinversation
• Brutus' monologue was a big part in Julius Caesar.

PROGNOSIS

• A forecast of the probable course and outcome of a disease
• Syn: projection
• The doctor's prognosis didn't look too good for the patient.

RASPING

• With a harsh, grating sound
• Syn: scraping, abrasive
• Ant: smooth, silky
• When you have a cough, it will lead to a raspy voice.

REPUGNANT

• Offensive, disagreeable, distasteful
• Syn: hateful, odious, revolting
• Ant: pleasing, attractive

SCUTTLE

• To sink a ship by cutting holes into it.
• Syn: abandon, discard, ditch
• Ant: keep afloat, salvage, rescue