Vocab G- Unit 9
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| acclamation |  SYN:approval, welcome, ovation, cheering, plaudits ANT:booing, hissing, jeers, catcalls |
| bucolic | SYN:rustic, rural, pastoral ANT:urban, metropolitan |
| calumniate | SYN: talking smack, to slander, accuse falsely, defame, libel ANT:flatter, whitewash, praise |
| chary | SYN: cautious, diffident, wary, skittish ANT: heedless, reckless, incautious |
| collusion | SYN: agreement or cooperation, conspiracy, plot, connivence, cahoots |
| dilettante | SYN:amateur, trifler, superficial ANT: professional |
| imperturbable | SYN:not easily excited, unflappable, unexcitable, unruffled ANT: excitable |
| increment | SYN: addition, increase, gain,accretion ANT: loss, reduction, decrease |
| mandate | SYN: command, order, authorization, directive ANT: forbid, outlaw, ban |
| paltry | SYN: weak, insignificant, mean, trashy, measly, meager, piddling, trivial, chicken ANT:gigantic, immense, colossal |
| paroxysm | SYN: outbrust, spasm, convulsion, fit, seizure |
| pedantry | SYN: nit-picking, hairsplitting, pettifoggery |
| peregrination | SYN: journey, odyssey, wandering |
| redolent | SYN: fragrant, smelling strongly, evocative, reminiscent, aromatic ANT: unevocative, odorless |
| refulgent | SYN: shining, radiant, resplendent, luminous, splendid ANT: dim, dark, murky, obscure, dingy, dull |
| shibboleth | SYN: a word, expression, a disinguishing custom, commonplace saying, catchphrase, slogan |
| tyro | SYN: neophite, beginner, novice ANT: veteran, past master, expert |
| unremitting | SYN: not stopping,relentless, never letting up, constant, incessant, unrelenting |
| vacillate | SYN:to swing indesicively between more than one course of action, seesaw, fluctuate, oscillate ANT: perservere |
| vituperative | SYN: harshly abusive, severe scolding, abusive, scurrulous, insulting ANT: complimentary, laudatory, flattering |
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