Units 7-9 Synonyms

Question 1

biting, rancorous, hostile, peevish

Answer 1

acrimonious

Question 2

stolid, dull, slow, stupid

Answer 2

bovine

Question 3

shock, amazement, bewilderment, dismay

Answer 3

consternation

Question 4

overweight, heavy, obese, stout, portly

Answer 4

corpulent

Question 5

disclaim, retract, abjure

Answer 5

disavow

Question 6

unbiased, disinterested, cool, detached

Answer 6

dispassionate

Question 7

strife, discord, contention

Answer 7

dissension

Question 8

disperse, strew, diffuse, waste

Answer 8

dissipate

Question 9

purge, censor, bowdlerize

Answer 9

expurgate

Question 10

dare, provocation, trial, punishment

Answer 10

gauntlet

Question 11

assumed, supposed, conditional

Answer 11

hypothetical

Question 12

inferior, unworthy, sordid

Answer 12

ignoble

Question 13

challenge, deny, dispute, query, question

Answer 13

impugn

Question 14

excessive, extreme, unrestrained, inordinate

Answer 14

intemperate

Question 15

abhorrence, opprobrium, shame, ignominy

Answer 15

odium

Question 16

betrayal, disloyalty, treason

Answer 16

perfidy

Question 17

transfer, consign, demote, exile

Answer 17

relegate

Question 18

nauseated, queasy, delicate, oversensitive, priggish

Answer 18

squeamish

Question 19

secondary, servile, obsequious, useful

Answer 19

subservient

Question 20

vulnerable, receptive, impressionable

Answer 20

susceptible

Question 21

forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned

Answer 21

austere

Question 22

humanitarian, magnanimous, charitable

Answer 22

beneficent

Question 23

corpselike, wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly

Answer 23

cadaverous

Question 24

create, fashion, rustle up

Answer 24

concoct

Question 25

crude, tasteless, oafish, obtuse

Answer 25

crass

Question 26

cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate

Answer 26

debase

Question 27

profane, defile, violate

Answer 27

desecrate

Question 28

upset, rattle, ruffle, faze

Answer 28

disconcert

Question 29

majestic, bombastic, highfalutin

Answer 29

grandiose

Question 30

trivial, negligible, paltry

Answer 30

inconsequential

Question 31

violation, transgression, offense

Answer 31

infraction

Question 32

lessen, relieve, alleviate

Answer 32

mitigate

Question 33

ravage, sack, loot; booty

Answer 33

pillage

Question 34

prattle, blab, palaver

Answer 34

prate

Question 35

precise, scrupulous

Answer 35

punctilious

Question 36

formidable, august

Answer 36

redoubtable

Question 37

chastise, upbraid, reproach

Answer 37

reprove

Question 38

reimbursement, redress, restoration

Answer 38

restitution

Question 39

sturdy, stout, intrepid, valiant; mainstay

Answer 39

stalwart

Question 40

defenseless, unguarded

Answer 40

vulnerable

Question 41

diminish, decrease, subside, let up

Answer 41

abate

Question 42

adoration, idolization, hero-worship

Answer 42

adulation

Question 43

malediction, imprecation, abomination

Answer 43

anathema

Question 44

acute, sagacious, judicious, wily

Answer 44

astute

Question 45

cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness

Answer 45

avarice

Question 46

guilty, delinquent, peccant, blameworthy

Answer 46

cuplable

Question 47

stalling, slow, tardy, laggard

Answer 47

dilatory

Question 48

glaring, flagrant, blatant

Answer 48

egregious

Question 49

to talk out of both sides of one's mouth, palter, hedge

Answer 49

equivocate

Question 50

ephemeral, transient, transitory

Answer 50

evanescent

Question 51

indecisive, vacilating, wavering

Answer 51

irresolute

Question 52

hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, opaque, indeterminate

Answer 52

nebulous

Question 53

neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice

Answer 53

novice

Question 54

destitution, indignence

Answer 54

penury

Question 55

ostentatious, inflated

Answer 55

pretentious

Question 56

review, summarize, go over

Answer 56

recapitulate

Question 57

revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivate

Answer 57

resuscitate

Question 58

unkempt, slatternly, lax

Answer 58

slovenly

Question 59

assumption, presumption, hypothesis

Answer 59

supposition

Question 60

lethargic, languid

Answer 60

torpid