VOCABULARY UNIT 9

ALLOCATE

• To set apart or deignated for a special purpose; to distribute.
• Synonyms: Assign, allot, distribute
• I had to allocate more RAM to the dedicated server.

ARDENT

• Very enthusiastic, impassioned
• Synonyms intense, fervent, avid
• Many athletes are ardent about their sport.

ASSIDUOUS

• Persistent, attentive, diligent
• Synonym industrious, unremitting, sedulous
• The assiduous woman would not give up her case to the judge.

BRASH

• Prone to act in a hasty manner; impudent
• Rash, impetuous, brazen
• The dean always made brash decisions with kittle facts to back him up.

CAPRICIOUS

• Subject to whims or passing fancies
• Impulsive, fickle, unpredictable, mercurial
• The weather is always capricious, since there is no real way to read it.

CHASTISE

• To inflict physical punishment as a means of correction; to scold severly
• Disciplinem censure
• Jesus Christ was chastised before he was put on the cross to die.

COPIOUS

• Abundant; plentiful; wordy, verbose
• Ample, profuse, bountiful
• The farm produced copious crops for years.

DEVIATE

• To turn aside; to stray from a norm; one who departs from a norm; differing from a norm, heterodox,unconventional
• Diverge,veer, swerve
• The car deviated from the room to aviod the deer.

EMACIATED

• Unnaturally thin
• Withered, shriveled
• All of the dogs in the cage were emaciated due to lack of food.

EXULT

• To rejoice greatly
• Revel, glory
• After the team won championships they exulted.

GNARLED

• Knotted, twisted, lumpy
• Knotty, misshapen, contorted
• The Boy Scouts were trained on how to loosen gnarled rope.

INDEMNITY

• A payment for damage or loss
• Compensation, reparation
• The loan sharks required indemnity for the protection they gave.

INKLING

• A hint; a vague notion
• Clue, intimation, suggestion
• The puzzle gave us a inkling to help get past the riddle.

LIMPID

• Clear, transparent; readily understood
• Lucid,intelligible
• The water in the Bahamas is so limpid that you can see to the bottom.

OMNIPOTENT

• Almighty, having unlimited power, or authority
• All-powerfull
• God is omnipotent since he is everywhere in the world.

PALATABLE

• Agreeable to the taste or one's sensibilities;suitable for consumption
• Edible, appetizing, attractive
• The leftovers in the trash are not palatable at all.

POIGNANT

• Deeply affecting, touching; keen or sharp in taste or smell
• Heartrending, melancholy
• The people watching the emotional dance were poignant about the art.

RANCOR

• Bitter resentment or ill-will
• Animosity, enmity, bitterness
• The child had a rancor attitude after he didnt get the toy he wanted.

SOPHOMORIC

• Immature and overconfident; conceited
• Pretentious, superficial, fatuous
• Whenever I am surrounded be new club members, i feel sophomoric.

SPONTANEOUS

• Arising naturally; not planned or engineered in advance
• Unpremeditated, unplanned, impromptu
• The mans confession of love was so spontaneous that is left the wonan speechless.