Units 4-6 Synonyms Flashcards by Jenna B

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exceptional, unusual, aberrant

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anomalus

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innuendo, calumny

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aspersion

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grotesque, fantastic, outlandish

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bizarre

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tactless, ungracious

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brusque

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wheedle, inveigle

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cajole

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chastise, censure

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castigate

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think up, concoct, fabricate

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contrive

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rabble-rouser, firebrand

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demagogue

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undeceive, enlighten

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disabuse

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languor, world-weariness, listlessness

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ennui

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bond, restraint, bind, hamper

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fetter

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evil, odious, outrageous

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heinous

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unchangeable, unalterable, fixed, invariable

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immutable

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revolutionary, rebellious, mutinous

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insurgent

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delusions of grandeur

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megalomania

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“no-show” job, cushy job, “plum”

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sinecure

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furtive, covert, clandestine, concealed

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surreptitious

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overstep, trespass

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transgress

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transform, convert

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transmute

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surrogate, secondhand

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vicarious

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reprieve

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amnesty

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home rule

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autonomy

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taken for granted

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axiomatic

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broadcast, trumpet

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blazon

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admonition, word to the wise

caveat

right, reasonable, evenhanded

equitable

disentangle, extract

extricate

pilfer, purloin, swipe

filch

sneer at, snicker at, scorn

flout

refractory, recalcitrant, peevish

fractious

principle, maxim

precept

salubrious, curative

salutary

searing, harsh, savage

scathing

flog, beat; bane, plague, pestilence

scourge

lugubrious, mortuary

sepulchral

narcotic, anesthetic

soporific

highly conventional, overly strict, stuffy

straitlaced

impermanent, ephemeral, evanescent

transient

bulky, clumsy, impractical

unwieldy

lifeless, colorless

vapid

genial, amicable, cordial

affable

augment, amplify, enhance, exalt

aggrandize

formless, unstructured, inchoate

amorphous

model, prototype, epitome

archetype

ambience, atmosphere

aura

bootleg, unlawful

contraband

profoundly educated, well-read

erudite

filmy, diaphanous, sheer, airy, feathery, gauzy

gossamer

impenetrable, incomprehensible, enigmatic

inscrutable

narrow-minded, parochial, provincial

insular

unrecallable, unalterable

irrevocable

natural bent, proclivity, penchant

propensity

petulant, irritable

querulous

reason against, espostulate

remonstrate

disavow, renounce

repudiate

springy, elastic

resilient

rumble, thunder, boom, echo

reverberate

obscene, filthy, abusive, vituperative

scurrilous

assiduous, indefatigable

sedulous

inferior, cheesy

sleazy