Unit 5 Synonyms

Question 1

Gloomy, sullen, morbid, doleful

Answer 1

Morose

Question 2

Hazy, cloudy, foggy, murky, dull, obtuse

Answer 2

Opaque

Question 3

To ease, smoothe the way, simplify

Answer 3

Facilitate

Question 4

A reproof, rebuke, to reprove, reproach

Answer 4

Reprimand

Question 5

Still, motionless, foul, fetid, polluted

Answer 5

Stagnant

Question 6

Captivity, bondage, thralldom, slavery

Answer 6

Servitude

Question 7

Cursory, perfunctory, sloppy, slipshod

Answer 7

Slapdash

Question 8

A partner in crime, confederate

Answer 8

Accomplice

Question 9

To yield, give way, submit, to die, expire

Answer 9

Succumb

Question 10

Aggressive, truculent, an activist

Answer 10

Militant

Question 11

Capricious, high-handed, autocratic

Answer 11

Arbitrary

Question 12

A stimulus, spur, an instigator

Answer 12

Catalyst

Question 13

Supreme, foremost, primary, dominant

Answer 13

Paramount

Question 14

To obliterate, decimate, demolish

Answer 14

Annihilate

Question 15

Dormant, inactive, undeveloped, hidden

Answer 15

Latent

Question 16

To refute, disprove, confute, shoot holes in

Answer 16

Rebut

Question 17

Unruly, intractable, incurable, inveterate

Answer 17

Incorrigible

Question 18

Imprudent, saucy, bold, shameless

Answer 18

Brazen

Question 19

An emigration, flight, escape, hegira

Answer 19

Exodus

Question 20

To chatter, babble, to purl, twaddle, gibberish

Answer 20

Prattle