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Vocab Unit 9

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Auxiliary

  • adjective, noun
  • (adj) giving assistance or support; (n) a helper, aid
  • A charger is very auxiliary when your phone is at 1%.
  • Syn: additional, back-up, reserve, accessory
  • Ant: main, primary, principal
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Candid

  • adjective
  • frank, sincere; impartial; unposed
  • It is safe to be candid about our faults with friends and family.
  • Syn: forthright, plainspoken, unbiased
  • Ant: insincere, eveasive, misleading, artful
3.

Cubicle

  • noun
  • a small room or compartment
  • Harry Potter's cubicle under the staircase was quite dusty.
  • Syn: enclosure, hole-in-the-wall
  • Ant: vast hall, auditorium
4.

Drudgery

  • noun
  • work that is hard and tiresome
  • I come home from a long day of drudgery at school and I still have to do homework.
  • Syn: toil, labor, grind
  • Ant: play, frolic, amusement, recreation, fun
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Envoy

  • noun
  • a representative or messenger (as of a government)
  • Sometimes, the former president must act as an envoy to the United Nations.
  • Syn: agent, ambassador, emissary, minister
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Escalate

  • verb
  • to elevate; to increase in intensity
  • That fight escalated quickly and got out of hand fast.
  • Syn: climb, raise, ascend, mount
  • Ant: decrease, lessen, descend, defuse
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Expedient

  • noun, adjective
  • (n) a means to an end; (adj) advantageous, useful
  • We could use your soccer skills to an expedient level.
  • Syn: contrivance, device, serviceable
  • Ant: inconvenient, untimely, disadvantageous
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Feign

  • verb
  • to pretend
  • I feigned illness so I didn't have to go to school.
  • Syn: fake, sham, affect, simulate
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Flair

  • noun
  • a natural quality, talent, or skill; a distinctive style
  • Mesut Ozil's flair in soccer is creating goal opportunities.
  • Syn: aptitude, bent, knack, gift, style, panache
  • Ant: inability, incapacity
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Grievous

  • adjective
  • causing sorrow or pain; serious
  • My dad and his brother were especially grievous when my Grandpa passed away.
  • Syn: painful, heartrending, onerous, flagrant
  • Ant: joyful, uplifting, cheery, upbeat, comforting
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Heterogenous

  • adjective
  • composed of different kinds; diverse
  • Cristiano Ronaldo's heterogenous talents make him the best player in the world.
  • Syn: miscellaneous, mixed, variegated
  • Ant: uniform, homogenous, of a piece
12.

Horde

  • noun
  • a vast number (as of people); a throng
  • A horde of shoppers entered the store after it opened.
  • Syn: crowd, mass, multitude, host, swarm
  • Ant: few, handful
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Impel

  • verb
  • to force, drive forward
  • I impel you to stand up for yourself.
  • Syn: urge, push spur, propel, incite
  • Ant: discourage, check, restrain, curb
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Incredulous

  • adjective
  • disbelieving, skeptical
  • The teacher gave me an incredulous look after I told her why I didn't have the homework.
  • Syn: dubious, mistrustful, doubting
  • Ant: believing, trustful, gullible
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Inscribe

  • Verb
  • to write or engrave; to enter a name on a list
  • I had my name inscribed on the watch.
  • Syn: imprint, enroll, enlist
  • Ant: erase, rub out, delete, efface, obliterate
16.

Monologue

  • noun
  • a speech by one actor; a long talk by one person
  • The monologue in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, is perhaps one of the most famous.
  • Syn: soliloquy, recitation
  • Ant: dialogue, conversation, colloquy
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Prognosis

  • noun
  • a forecast of the probable course and outcome of a disease or situation.
  • Based on my prognosis of the storm, school will be cancelled tomorrow.
  • Syn: prediction, projection
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Rasping

  • adjective, noun
  • (adj) with a harsh, grating sound; (n) a harsh sound
  • The sound of nails on a chalkboard is so rasping, I can't bear it.
  • Syn: scratchy, scraping, abrasive, gravelly
  • Ant: sonorous, smooth, satiny, silky, mellow
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Repugnant

  • adjective
  • offensive, disagreeable, distasteful
  • Despite their repugnant lack of cleanliness, pigs are endearing to many people.
  • Syn: hateful, odious, revolting, repulsive
  • Ant: pleasing, attractive, tempting, wholesome
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Scuttle

  • verb, noun
  • (v) to sink a ship by cutting holes in it; to get rid of something in a decisive way; to run hastily, scurry; (n) a pail
  • The captain decided to scuttle the ship, rather than let it fall into enemy hands.
  • Syn: abandon, discard, scrap, ditch, dump
  • Ant: keep afloat, salvage, rescue, preserve
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