Vocabulary Workshop: Unit 2: Synonyms and antonyms
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williamgerwe on October 13, 2011
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 accost | S: buttonhole, approach, confront A: evade, avoid, shun |
| animadversion | S: rebuke, reproof A: praise, compliment |
| avid | S: keen, enthusiastic, grasping A: reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
| brackish | S: briny, saline A: fresh, clear, sweet |
| celerity | S: promptness, alacrity, speed A: slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness |
| devious | S: roundabout, indirect, artful, tricky, sly A: direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard |
| gambit | S: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver |
| halcyon | S: tranquil, serene, placid, palmy A: turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous |
| histrionic | S: affected, stagy A: low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued |
| incendiary | S: inflammatory, provocative, firebrand A: soothing, quieting, peacemaker |
| maelstrom | S: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult |
| myopic | S: shortsighted A: farsighted |
| overt | S: clear, obvious, manifest, patent A: secret, clandestine, covert, concealed |
| pejorative | A: complimentary, ameliorative |
| propriety | S: fitness, correctness, decorum A: unseemliness, inappropriateness |
| sacrilege | S: desecration, profanation, defilement |
| summarily | S: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly |
| undulate | S: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall |
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