Vocab Number 3
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katiesgibbs on October 13, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ambiguous | Having more than one possible meaning; doubtful, not clear, uncertain |
| Indigent | Poverty-stricken :( |
| Intrinsic | Pertaining to the essential nature of a thing. |
| Laudable | Worty of commendation or praise. |
| Mundane | Pertaining to the world--to temporal, earthly things. |
| Ostracize | To exclude from public or private favors and privileges. |
| Parsimonious | Excessively frugal or stingy. |
| Predilection | Favorable opinion of a person or thing arrived at beforehand; preference. |
| Equivocal, Obscure, Vague, Amphilbolic | Synonyms of Ambiguous |
| Destitute, impeunious, needy, poor, necesitious, penniless, penurious | Synonyms of Indigent |
| Inherent, innate, inbred, inborn, real | Synonyms of Intrinsic |
| Commendable, praiseworthy | Synonyms of laudable |
| Worldly, earthly, terrestrial, secular, temporal | Synonyms of mundane |
| Banish, bar, exhile, expatriate | Synonyms of ostracize |
| Avaricious, miserly, niggardly, thrifty, penurious, tightfisted, illiberal | Synonyms of parsimonious |
| Partiality, prejudice, prepossession | Synonms of predilection |
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