Vocabulary Level E

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Vocabulary Level E

• Unit 2

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adroit

• DEF (adj.) skillful, expert in the use of hands
  or mind
• SYN clever, deft, dexterous, slick
• ANT clumsy, inept, all thumbs
• WORD CONNECTION
• MAD-roit skills

My ADROIT mind is always thinking of new
equationsE
Do you want to see my nun chuck skills? Im so
ADROIT with the nun chucks!
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amicable

• DEF (adj.) peaceable, friendly
• SYN congenial, neighborly, cordial
• ANT hostile, antagonistic
• Spanish CONNECTION
• AMIGO friend in Spanish

It was clear from the friendly way they greeted
each other, that the women had an AMICABLE
relationship.
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averse

• DEF (adj.) having a deep-seated distaste
  opposed, unwilling
• SYN disinclined, loathe
• ANT favorably disposed, eager,
• keen
• WORD CONNECTION
• If youre averse to something,
• you avoid it.

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belligerent

• DEF (adj.) given to fighting, warlike
  combative, aggressive (n.) one at war, one
  engaged in war
• SYN assertive, truculent, pugnacious
• ANT peaceful, conciliatory, placid
• Alliterative Connection
• The Boxers were
• Belligerent.

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benevolent
A benevolent person gives to others.

• DEF (adj.) kindly, charitable
• SYN benign, well-meaning
• ANT malicious, spiteful, malevolent
• WORD CONNECTION
• A benevolent person
• benefits those around them.

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cursory

• DEF (adj.) hasty, not thorough
• SYN quick, superficial, perfunctory
• ANT thorough, painstaking, careful
• WORD CONNECTION
• You can scroll the computer cursor
• quickly down the page to take a
• cursory look at the website.

His CURSORY glance in my direction was as QUICK
as a wink.
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duplicity

• DEF (n.) treachery, deceitfulness
• SYN fraud, double-dealing, chicanery
• WORD CONNECTION
• The person who was a victim of
• duplicity was duped (tricked).

Stabbing someone in the back is an act of
DUPLICITY!
My grandmother was a victim of DUPLICITY when she
fell for an email SCAM.
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extol

• DEF (v.) to praise extravagantly
• SYN glorify, applaud, acclaim, hail
• ANT criticize, belittle, disparage
• WORD CONNECTION
• EXtol the EXcellence

Wayne and Garth say Were not worthy!! to EXTOL
their favorite musicians.
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feasible

• DEF (adj.) possible, able to be done
• SYN workable, practicable, viable
• ANT unworkable, impractical
• WORD CONNECTION
• If its feasible, its possible.
• A feasible math problem is 2 2 ?

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grimace

• DEF (n.) a wry face, facial distortion (v.) to
  make a wry face
• SYN pained expression, facial contortion
• ANT smile, grin, beam
• WORD CONNECTION
• As he was grimacing, the
• mans face twisted
• into a grimace.

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asible

• We will have to develop a _____________ plan if
  we want to be successful in our business
  endeavor.
• Unfortunately, I only gave my notes a
  ___________ glance last night, and so I failed my
  history quiz this morning.
• Even though the business partners parted ways and
  formed separate companies, they still maintain
  a(n) ____________ relationship.
• There is no way one sentence could ever be enough
  to __________ the many virtues of an important
  person like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• I know youre upset, but theres no need to
  become ________________. Fighting always makes a
  situation worse!

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• Although John claimed to like his
  mother-in-laws lasagna, his ___________gave away
  his true feelings.
• It was a shocking case of ________when the CEO
  of the company was discovered to have been
  embezzling money for years.
• The painters hands were so _________that she
  could capture the exact expression on her
  subjects faces.
• Because of my past experiences with painful
  needles, I am __________to voluntarily getting a
  flu shot.
• A retired teacher who volunteers her time at
  local schools to work with struggling students is
  truly ________.

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holocaust

• DEF (n.) a large-scale destruction, especially
  by fire a vast slaughter a burnt offering
• SYN conflagration, devastation, annihilation
• ANT deluge, inundation
• WORD CONNECTION
• The COST of the HOLOCAUST
• was millions of destroyed lives.

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impervious

• DEF (adj.) not affected or hurt by admitting
  of no passage or entrance
• SYN impenetrable, resistant, proof against
• ANT porous, permeable, vulnerable
• WORD CONNECTION
• The imPERvious item was
• always in PERfect condition.

Superman is IMPERVIOUS to bullets.
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impetus

• DEF (n.) a moving force, impulse, stimulus
• SYN impulse, incentive, spur
• ANT curb, hindrance, impediment, constraint

Striking the match was the IMPETUS for the fire.
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jeopardy

• DEF (n.) danger
• SYN risk, hazard, peril
• ANT safety, security

When people drive too fast in bad weather, they
put their lives in JEOPARDY!
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meticulous

• DEF (adj.) extremely careful particular about
  details
• SYN fastidious, painstaking, fussy
• ANT careless, negligent, sloppy
• WORD CONNECTION
• A metiCULous person is
• very partiCULar about having
• everything in the right place.

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nostalgia

• DEF (n.) a longing for something past
  homesickness
• Phrase CONNECTION
• Ahhh..remember the
• good old days

I wish I could go home
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quintessence

• DEF (n.) the purest essence or form of
  something the most typical example
• SYN paragon, exemplar
• purest form of water

The smiling baby was the QUINTESSENCE of life.
She hadnt yet been corrupted by the world.
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retrogress

• DEF (v.) to move backward to return to an
  earlier condition
• SYN revert, degenerate, decline
• ANT advance, evolve, progress
• WORD CONNECTION
• To dress retro means to dress
• in a way that people dressed in
• an earlier time.

After his shoulder surgery, the pitcher throwing
ability had RETROGRESSED.
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scrutinize

• DEF (v.) to examine closely
• SYN inspect, pore over
• ANT skim, scan, glance at
• WORD CONNECTION
• If you scrutinIZE a document,
• you stare at it with your eyes.

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tepid

• DEF (adj.) lukewarm unenthusiastic, marked by
  an absence of interest
• SYN insipid, halfhearted, wishy-washy
• ANT heated, excited, enthusiastic
• WORD CONNECTION
• A tepid temperate is a
• room temperature.

The students TEPID response to the new project
showed me they were NOT INTERESTED!
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• The _____________ water coming from our broken
  water heater did not make taking a bath very
  pleasant.
• I really hope we can have a mature conversation
  and avoid _____________ into immature
  name-calling.
• Although my house may be a bit unorganized, when
  it come to personal hygiene, I am very
  __________.
• What started with two careless campers not
  putting out their campfire, grew into a(n)
  ___________that destroyed hundreds of homes and
  took three lives.
• It is truly amazing to me when soldiers put
  themselves in ___________ to defend the security
  of our nation.

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rvious

• The legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the
  Round Table are a _______of what true gentlemen
  should be.
• Before purchasing a home, Jill hired a home
  inspector to ___________the potential real
  estate.
• Seans self-confidence was so strong that he was
  _____to any insults from unkind people.
• My great grandmother has lived in the United
  States for 60 years, but she is still
  occasionally overcome with a sense of
  ___________for Germany.
• The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was
  a _______that helped start World War I.