Analytical Reading Midterm Semester 2 Midterm 1 Flashcards
Accord
Definition: to bring into agreement
Antonyms: conflict, disagreement, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness
Synonyms: agreement, bargain, compact, deal, disposition, pact, settlement, understanding
Ascribe
Definition: to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author
Antonyms: assign, refer; associate, attach,
Synonyms: accredit, credit, attribute, chalk up, impute, lay, put down
Aspire
Definition: to seek to attain or accomplish a particular goal
Antonyms: decline, descend, dip, drop, fall (off), plunge
Synonyms: intend, calculate, contemplate, design, go
Beset
Definition: to set or stud with or as if with ornaments, trouble
Antonyms: cover, defend, guard, protect, secure, shield
Synonyms: agonize, anguish, bedevil, afflict, besiege, curse, excruciate, torment, torture
Bounty
Definition: something that is given generously
Antonyms: deduction, loss, subtraction
Synonyms: reward, price
Compel
Definition: to drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly
Antonyms: allow, let, permit; argue, convince, induce, move, persuade, prevail
Synonyms: blackjack, coerce, force, constrain, dragoon, drive, impel, impress, make, muscle, obligate, oblige, press, pressure, sandbag
Conviction
Definition: the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law
Antonyms: doubt, incertitude, nonconfidence, uncertainty
Synonyms: assurance, assuredness, certainty, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, doubtlessness, face, positiveness, satisfaction, sureness, surety
Cunning
Definition: dexterous or crafty in the use of special resources or in attaining an end
Antonyms: artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning
Synonyms: clever, dexterous, deft, handy
Dilemma
Definition: an argument presenting two or more equally conclusive alternatives against an opponent
Antonyms: breeze, cinch, duck soup, snap
Synonyms: bind, box, catch-22, corner, predicament, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot
Endow
Definition: to furnish with an income
Antonyms: defund, disendow
Synonyms: bless, endue, favor, gift, invest
Endure
Definition: to undergo, especially without giving in, suffer
Antonyms: cease, close, conclude, desist, die, discontinue, end, expire, finish, lapse, leave off, pass
Synonyms: experience, feel, have, know, pass, see, suffer, sustain, taste, undergo, witness
Exploitation
Definition: use or utilization, especially for profit
Antonyms: impracticable, inoperable, nonfunctional, unavailable, unemployable, unusable
Synonyms: available, employable, usable, fit, functional, operable, practicable, serviceable, useful
Flag
Definition: to signal with or as if with a flag, to signal to stop
Antonyms: convalesce, rally, rebound, recover, recuperate; gain
Synonyms: flag, hang, loll, sag, swag, wilt
Grievous
Definition: causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or sorrow
Antonyms: easy, light, soft
Synonyms: afflicting, agonizing, cruel, excruciating, galling, bitter, harrowing, harsh, heartrending, hurtful, painful, tormenting, torturous
Impede
Definition: to interfere with or slow the progress of
Antonyms: aid, assist, facilitate, help
Synonyms: clog, cramp, embarrass, encumber, fetter, handcuff, handicap, hinder, hobble, hog-tie, hold back, hold up, hamper, inhibit, interfere
Invert
Definition: to reverse ion position, order, or relationship
Synonyms: flip, reverse, turn over
Menace
Definition: a show of intention to inflict harm, threat
Antonyms: guard, protection, safeguard, shield, ward
Synonyms: hazard, imminence, danger, peril, pitfall, risk, threat, trouble
Refute
Definition: to prove wrong by argument or evidence
Antonyms: acknowledge, admit, allow, avow, concede, confirm, own
Synonyms: belie, confound, confute, debunk, disconfirm, discredit, falsify, rebut, disprove, shoot down
Reserve
Definition: to hold in back or keep back, to set aside
Antonyms: disinhibition, incontinence, unconstraint
Synonyms: continence, discipline, discretion, inhibition, refrainment, repression, constraint, restraint, self-command, self-control, self-restraint, suppression
Respite
Definition: a period of temporary delay
Antonyms: humorless, lame, unamusing, uncomic, unfunny, unhumorous, unhysterical
Synonyms: antic, chucklesome, comedic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, hilarious, humoristic
Riddle
Definition: a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed
Synonyms: closed book, conundrum, enigma, head-scratcher, mystification, mystery, secret
Toil
Definition: long strenuous fatiguing labor, struggle, battle
Antonyms: fun, play
Synonyms: donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, fatigue, grind, labor, moil, slavery, sweat, travail
Unscrupulous
Definition: not honest or fair, unprincipled
Antonyms: ethical, moral, principled, scrupulous
Synonyms: cutthroat, unethical, unprincipled
Unshod
Definition: not wearing or provided with shoes
Antonyms: shod
Synonyms: barefoot, discalceate, discalced, shoeless
Discord
Definition: lack of agreement or harmony
Antonyms: accord, agreement, concord, concordance, harmony, peace
Synonyms: conflict, disaccord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissension, infighting
Catharsis
Definition: purification or purgation of the emotions
Antonyms: dirtying
Synonyms: ablution, cleansing, purgation, release
Cryptic
Definition: secret, occult
Antonyms: long-winded
Synonyms: obscure, dark, vague
Debauchery
Definition: extreme indulgence in sensuality
Antonyms: morality, virtue
Synonyms: corruption, vice, depravity, immorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, libertinage, libertinism, licentiousness, profligacy, sin
Clairvoyance
Definition: the power or faculty of discerning objects
Synonyms: extrasensory perception, second sight, sixth sense
Dubious
Definition: giving rise to uncertainty, doubtful promise or outcome
Antonyms: certain, hands-down, incontestable, indisputable, indubitable
Synonyms: questionable, shady, shaky, suspect, suspicious
Cavalier
Definition: a gentleman trained in arms and horsemanship, a knight
Antonyms: humble, shy
Synonyms: gentleman
Deleterious
Definition: harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way
Antonyms: anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe
Synonyms: adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, harmful
Charlatan
Definition: one making usually showy pretenses to knowledge or ability
Antonyms: expert, maestro, master, past master, professional, virtuoso, whiz, wizard
Synonyms: pretender, quack, quacksalver, ringer, sham
Destitute
Definition: lacking something needed or desirable
Antonyms: opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poverty-stricken, skint
Cordial
Definition: obsolete, of or relating to the heart
Antonyms: antagonistic, hostile, unfriendly
Synonyms: neighborly, palsy, palsy-walsy, warm, warmhearted
Debacle
Definition: a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river
Antonyms: blockbuster, hit, smash, success, winner
Synonyms: apocalypse, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy
Expound
Definition: to set fourth, to state
Antonyms: stifle, suppress
Synonyms: air, express, give, look, raise, sound, state, vent, ventilate, voice
Forebode
Definition: to have an inward conviction pf
Synonyms: augur, bode, promise
Eloquent
Definition: marked by forceful and fluent expression
Antonyms: inarticulate, ineloquent, unvocal
Synonyms: articulate, fluent, silver-tongued, well-spoken
Fortify
Definition: to make strong, strengthen
Antonyms: debilitate, enervate, enfeeble, weaken
Synonyms: brace, forearm, nerve, poise, ready, steel, strengthen
Eclectic
Definition: heterogeneous, selecting what appears to be best in various doctrines, methods, or style
Antonyms: homogeneous
Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, heterogeneous, indiscriminate
Elusive
Definition: tending to evade grasp or pursuit
Synonyms: evasive, fugitive, slippery
Emanate
Definition: to come out of a source
Antonyms: absorb, inhale, soak (up), sponge, suck (up), take up
Synonyms: spring, arise, rise, originate, derive, flow, issue
Exonerate
Definition: to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship
Antonyms: criminate, incriminate
Synonyms: absolve, acquit, clear, exculpate, vindicate
Friviolous
Definition: of little weight or importance
Antonyms: big, consequential, eventful, important, major
Synonyms: fiddling, foolish, unimportant, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, little
Furtive
Definition: done by stealth, stolen
Antonyms: open, overt, public
Synonyms: sneaky, shady, shifty, slippery, sly, sneaking, stealthy
Futile
Definition: serving no useful purpose
Antonyms: deadly, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, fruitful, potent, productive, profitable, successful, virtuous
Synonyms: abortive, barren, bootless, empty, fruitless, ineffective, ineffectual, profitless, unavailing, unproductive
Feasible
Definition: capable of being done or carried out
Synonyms: hopeless, impossible, impracticable, nonviable, unattainable, unfeasible, unworkable
Synonyms: achievable, attainable, doable, possible, practicable, realizable, viable, workable
Flagrant
Definition: a conspicuously offensive
Antonyms: concealed, hidden, invisible
Synonyms:blatant, conspicuous, egregious, glaring, gross, obvious, patent, pronounced, rank, striking
Enigma
Definition: an obscure speech or writing
Synonyms: closed book, conundrum, mystery, head-scratcher, mystification, puzzle, puzzlement, riddle, secret
Equitable
Definition: dealing fairly and equally with all concerned
Antonyms: inequitable, nonobjective, one-sided, partial
Synonyms: nonpartisan, objective, square, unbiased, unprejudiced
Elated
Definition: marked by high spirits
Antonyms: depressed
Synonyms: ecstatic, elevated, enrapt, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, giddy, heady, intoxicated
Feign
Definition: to give a false appearance of
Synonyms: act, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit, dissemble, fake, pass
Fidelity
Definition: the quality or state of being faithful
Antonyms:
disloyalty, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, inconstancy, infidelity, perfidy, treachery, unfaithfulness
Synonyms: adhesion, allegiance, attachment, commitment, constancy, dedication, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fastness, fealty, loyalty, piety, steadfastness, troth
Extraneous
Definition: not forming an essential or vital part
Antonyms: inherent, innate, intrinsic
Synonyms: accidental, adventitious, alien, extrinsic, external, foreign, supervenient
Flaunt
Definition: to display or obtrude oneself to public notice
Antonyms: obscure, occlude, occult, shroud, veil
Synonyms: display, disport, exhibit, expose, flash, show, lay out, parade, produce, show off, sport, strut, unveil
Extricate
Definition: to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty
Antonyms: embroil, entangle
Synonyms: clear, disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, free, liberate, release, untangle, cut loose
Emaciate
Definition: to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin
Antonyms: convalesce, rally, rebound, recover, recuperate; gain
Synonyms: decay, droop, weaken, fade, fail, flag, go, wilt, wither
Empathy
Definition: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, of the past
Flux
Definition: a continuous moving on or passing
Antonyms: outflow, outpouring
Synonyms: change, fluctuation, inconstancy, oscillation
