Kaplan Word Groups Flashcards
abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse
abbreviated communication
abrupt, apace, headlong, impetuous, precipitate
act quickly
abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance
assist
bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish
bad mood
dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro
beginner/amateur
burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent
beginning/young
acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant
biting (as in wit or temperament)
audacious, courageous, dauntless
bold
banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite
boring
bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude
carousal
capricious, mercurial, volatile
changing quickly
counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulate, vicarious
copy
aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defame, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate
criticize/ criticism
bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith
death, mourning
abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate
denying of self
authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical
dictatorial
abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid
difficult to understand
defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative
disgusting/offensive
articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid
easy to understand
aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast
eccentric/dissimilar
abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue
embarrass
equitable, equity, tantamount
equal
apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious
falsehood
conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion
family
ardent/ardor, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
favoring/not impartial
absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate
forgive/make amends