Vocab Unit 9 // Syn + Ant Flashcards by Tyra Workman | Brainscape

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Syn : acclamation

A

ovation, cheering, plaudits

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Ant : acclamation

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Booing, hissing, jeers

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Syn : bucolic

A

rustic

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Ant : bucolic

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Metropolitan

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syn : calumniate

A

defame, libel

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Ant : calumniate

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flatter, whitewash, praise

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Syn : chary

A

skittish

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Ant : chary

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Heedless, reckless, incautious

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Syn : collusion

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Conspiracy, plot, connivance

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Syn : dilettante

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Amateur

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Ant : dilettante

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Professional

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Syn : Imperturbable

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unflappable, unexcitable, serene, unruffled

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Ant : imperturbable

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excitable

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Syn : increment

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accretion

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Ant : increment

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reduction, decrease

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Syn : mandate

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directive

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Ant : mandate

A

forbid, ban, outlaw

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Syn : paltry

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measly, meager, piddling, trivial

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Ant : paltry

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gigantic, immense

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Syn : paroxysm

A

fit, seizure

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syn : Pedantry

A

Nit-picking, pettifoggery

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syn : peregrinations

A

journey, wandering, odyssey

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sym : redolent

A

evocative, reminiscent, aromatic

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Ant : redolent

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evocative, odorless

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syn : refulgent

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splendid

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ant : refulgent

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Dim, Dark, obscure, dingy, dull

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syn : shibboleth

A

password, slogan

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syn : tyro

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neophyte

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ant : tyro

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veteran, past, master, expert

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syn : unremitting

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incessant, unrelenting

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ant : unremitting

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desultory, intermittent

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syn : vacillate

A

fluctuate, oscillate

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ant : vacillate

A

persevere

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syn : vituperative

A

abusive, scurrilous, insulting

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ant : vituperative

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complimentary, laudatory, flattering