Completed workbook pages Vocab Unit 9 Completed workbook pages due Tuesday 4/30/13

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abate intensify increase magnify to make less in amount, degree deduct, omit intensify increase magnify diminish decrease subside let up

adulation ridicule, scorn,odium praise or flattery that is excessive adoration idolization hero-worship ridicule, scorn,odium

An object of intense dislike; a curse or strong denunciation anathema An object of intense dislike; a curse or strong denunciation malediction imprecation abomination blessing; benediction

obtuse, doltish, empty-headed, dumb astute shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom shrewd, wily, acute obtuse, doltish, empty-headed, dumb

a greedy desire, especially for wealth avarice rapacity cupidity a greedy desire, especially for wealth

worthy of condemnation culpable deserving blame, worthy of condemnation guilty, delinquent peccant, blameworthy blameless, innocent, laudable

dilatory prompt, punctual, speedy, expeditious tending to delay or procrastinate, not prompt stall, slow, tardy, laggard prompt, punctual, speedy, expeditious

unnoticeable, paltry, piddling egregious conspicuous, standing out from the mass (negative) glaring, flagrant, blatant unnoticeable, paltry, piddling

to speak or act in a way that allows for more than 1 interpretation equivocate to speak or act in a way that allows for more than 1 interpretation to talk out of both sides of one’s mouth to speak one’s mind plainly

everlasting, immortal, imperishable evanescent vanishing, soon passing away, light and airy ephemeral, transient, transitory everlasting, immortal, imperishable

unable to make up one’s mind irresolute unable to make up one’s mind indecisive vacillating wavering determined, decisive

cloudlike, cloudy in color, transparent, vague, confused nebulous cloudlike, cloudy in color, transparent, vague, confused hazy, fuzzy, murky, opaque definite, distinct, clear, sharply focused 14

one who is a beginner at an activity that requires skill or experience novice one who is a beginner at an activity that requires skill or experience neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice veteran, past master, pro, expert

penury affluence, abundance, luxury, opulence extreme poverty; barrenness, insufficiency destitution, want indigence affluence, abundance, luxury, opulence

done for show, striving to make a big impression, ambitious pretentious done for show, striving to make a big impression, ambitious inflated, ostentatious unassuming, unaffected, modest

recapitulate to review a series of facts, to sum up review, summarize, sum up, go over

to revive, bring back to consciousness or existence resuscitate to revive, bring back to consciousness or existence revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivte

slovenly untidy, dirty, careless unkempt, slatternly, slipshod, lax neat, tidy, careful, meticulous

assumption, presumption, hypothesis supposition something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence. assumption, presumption, hypothesis

inactive, sluggish, dull torbid inactive, sluggish, dull sluggish, lethargic,otiose, languid energetic, dynamic, vigorous