1 / 33

Vocabulary 4

Vocabulary 4. Using Synonyms. Convoluted. Having many overlapping folds or paths; complicated; complex; involved. Endorse. Give approval or support to; favor. Enhance. Heighten, intensify; increase, raise. Evade. Escape or avoid by cleverness; outwit, avoid. Giddy.

garry
Download Presentation

Vocabulary 4

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Vocabulary 4 Using Synonyms

  2. Convoluted • Having many overlapping folds or paths; complicated; complex; involved

  3. Endorse • Give approval or support to; favor

  4. Enhance • Heighten, intensify; increase, raise

  5. Evade • Escape or avoid by cleverness; outwit, avoid

  6. Giddy • Lighthearted; silly; foolish; deliriously happy

  7. Impede • Interfere with; slow the progress of; block

  8. Innocuous • Harmless; inoffensive

  9. Insuperable • Impossible to overcome; invincible, unbeatable

  10. Interminable • Having or seeming to have no end; infinite, perpetual

  11. Wary • Watchful, cautious; doubtful, suspecting

  12. Vocabulary 5 The Prefix re-

  13. Recourse • Turning to someone or something for help or protection; a turning to something

  14. Recuperate • To recover health or strength; become healthy again

  15. Refute • To prove false by argument; argue back

  16. Rejuvenated • Made youthful or new again; made young again

  17. Remorse • Deep pain caused by guilt for past wrongdoing; repeated gnawing in one’s gut

  18. Renowned • Widely known; widely honored or famous

  19. Repel • To keep away; fight back; force back

  20. Resentment • Ill will felt as a result of a perceived insult or injury; rancor directed at a slight

  21. Resigned • Deliberately giving up; accepting; to renounce or relinquish; giving up

  22. Retract • To take back; draw back; pull back

  23. Vocabulary 6 The Suffix -ize

  24. Centralize • Draw toward a center; bring under central control; to become central

  25. Economize • Become careful in spending money; reduce spending or avoid waste

  26. Equalize • Make equal

  27. Idealize • Become ideal or perfect; to regard as excellent or perfect

  28. Immobilize • Make unmovable or fix the position of; make unable to move

  29. Materialize • Become substantial or real; take on concrete form; appear suddenly

  30. Maximize • Cause to become the greatest; increase or make as great as possible

  31. Mesmerize • Hypnotize; fascinate

  32. Rationalize • Treat with reason; make something understandable; to come up with believable but untrue reasons for one’s behavior

  33. Scrutinize • Treat with close examination; examine or observe carefully

More Related