VOCAB UNIT 9 OLIVER KIRSCH

ALLOCATE

• Set aside for a special purpose
• Assign, allot
• Steal
• During the storm he allocated all of the bandages for severly wounded.

ARDENT

• Very enthusiastic
• Intense, avid
• Indifferent, unenthusiastic
• The students at the football game were ardent as they cheered.

ASSIDUOUS

• Persistent
• Diligent, steady
• Lazy, shiftless
• The assiduous boys finish the project quickley.

BRASH

• Act in a hasty manner, impudent
• Rash, impetous
• Prudent, wary
• Im confused on this one

CAPRICIOUS

• Subject to whims or passing fancies
• Impulsive, fickle
• Constant,steady
• Capricious decisions always lead to issues.

CHASTISE

• To inflict physical punishment for correction
• Discipline,censure
• Commend,reward
• Even though many people would like to chastise
• penguins for being annoying, they are too cute.

COPIOUS

• Abundant, plentiful
• Ample,profuse
• Inadequate,meager
• I would enjoy having copious amounts
• of money to buy random things I dont need.

DEVIATE

• Turn aside, away from the normal
• Diverge, veer
• Conform to, abide by
• The poet, Edgar Allen Poe, was a very devient person.

EMACIATED

• Unnaturally thin
• Withered, shriveled
• Plump, fat, obese
• The man sleeping on the street looked emaciated so I
• offered to buy him a snack, he chased me with a knife.

EXULT

• To rejoice greatley
• Revel, glory
• Mope, sulk, regret
• After a long game the boys exulted when
• they scored the final winning goal

GNARLED

• Knotted, twisty
• Knotty, misshappen
• Smooth, unblemished
• After getting hit by a train the deer
• was very gnarled.

INDEMNITY

• A payment for damage or loss
• Compenation, reparation
• None
• After backing into the mans car I payed
• him $250 as indemnity.

INKLING

• A hint or vague notion
• Clue, suggestion
• Mislead
• I had an inkling that my brother had been eating
• all the oreos so i installed a camera in the kitchen.

LIMPID

• Clear, transparent
• Lucid
• Murky, opaque
• I didnt have a limpid view of the situation after
• hearing both sides of thenstory.

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