Unit 12 Vocabulary
Unit 12 Vocabulary
Unit 12 Vocabulary
Unit 12 Vocabulary
Synonyms/Antonyms
100
To clear from blame, responsibility, or guilt.
What is absolve?
100
(n.) A loud, ringing sound

(v.) to make a loud ringing noise.

What is clangor?
100
Harmful; injurious.
What is deleterious?
100
A model of excellence or perfection.
What is paragon?
100
To intensify the taste of the sauce.
What is enhance?
200
To raise to a higher degree; to increase the value or desirability of.
What is enhance?
200
Sharp; keen, penetrating (with a suggestion of decisiveness and effectiveness.)
What is incisive?
200
Side by side, touching; near; adjacent in time.
What is contiguous?
200
Prudent; shrewdly conceived  and developed; artful, expedient.
What is politic?
200
A parody of his behavior.
What is caricature?
300
Implied or understood though unexpressed; without doubts or reservations, unquestioning; potentially contained in.
What is implicit?
300
To captivate, charm, hold spellbound; to enslave; to imprison.
What is enthrall?
300
Tending to cause harm or obstruct developments; being oppositional or adverse.
What is inimical?
300
Making a show of virtue or righteousness; hypocritically moralistic or pious, self-righteous, canting, holier-than-thou
What is sanctimonious?
300
A person filled with generosity.
What is cupidity?
400
Extra, excess, more than is needed; wordy, repetitive; profuse, lush
What is redundant?
400
A representation, such as a drawing, that exaggerates a subject's characteristic features.
What is caricature?
400
To lessen the seriousness or the magnitude of an offense by making partial excuses.
What is extenuate?
400
Sparkling, twinkling, exceptionally brilliant (applied to metal or personal qualities).
What is scintillating?
400
Charges aggravated by circumstances.
What is extenuated?
500
Harmful; injurious
What is deleterious?
500
An eager desire for something; greed.
What is cupidity?
500
Marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy.
What is ostentatious?
500
Charming, attractive, pleasing (often suggesting a childlike charm and innocence).

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What is winsome?
500
Issuing succinct instructions.
What is redundant?
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