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Vocabulary Workshop Unit 13

Vocabulary Workshop Unit 13. ABET (v.). To encourage, assist, aid, support (especially in something wrong or unworthy ) Ant: hamper, hinder, impede, frustrate. AVER (v.). To affirm, declare confidently Syn : assert, asseverate, avouch Ant: deny, disavow, repudiate, dislaim.

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Vocabulary Workshop Unit 13

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  1. Vocabulary WorkshopUnit 13

  2. ABET (v.) • To encourage, assist, aid, support (especially in something wrong or unworthy) • Ant: hamper, hinder, impede, frustrate

  3. AVER (v.) • To affirm, declare confidently • Syn: assert, asseverate, avouch • Ant: deny, disavow, repudiate, dislaim

  4. BLATANT (adj.) • Noisy in a coarse, offensive way; obvious or conspicuous, especially in an unfavorable sense • Syn: flagrant, glaring, egregious, disagreeably loud • Ant: inconsequential, trifling, piddling, petty

  5. BROACH (v.) and (n.) • (v.) to bring up or begin to talk about (a subject); to announce, introduce; to break the surface of the water; to turn sideways to the wind and waves; to pierce (a cask) in order to draw off liquid; (n.) a spit for roasting; a tool for tapping casks

  6. BUTTRESS (v.) and (n.) • (v.) to support, prop up, strengthen; (n.) a supporting structure • Syn: bolster, reinforce, brace, shore up • Ant: undermine, weaken, impair

  7. CAROUSAL (n.) • Noisy revelry or merrymaking (often with a suggestion of heavy drinking) • Syn: drinking bout, drunken revel, binge

  8. COLLATE (v.) • To compare critically in order to note differences, similarities, etc.; to arrange in order for some specific purpose • Syn: sort out, cross-check, rearrange

  9. CONNOISSEUR (n.) • An expert; one who is well qualified to pass critical judgments, especially in one of the fine arts • Syn: authority, savant, pundit • Ant: ignoramus, philistine, yahoo

  10. DISCONSOLATE (adj.) • Deeply unhappy or dejected; without hope, beyond consolation • Syn: grief-stricken, inconsolable, comfortless • Ant: cheerful, blithe, buoyant, jaunty

  11. ENCUMBER (v.) • To weigh down or burden (with difficulties, cares, debt, etc…); to fill up, block up, hinder • Syn: overload, saddle, hamper, clog • Ant: unburden, unload, relieve

  12. FOMENT (v.) • To promote trouble or rebellion; to apply warm liquids to, warm • Syn: instigate, incite, stir up • Ant: quell, quash, squelch, suppress

  13. GRISLY (adj.) • Frightful, horrible, ghastly • Syn: gruesome, gory, hideous • Ant: pleasant, delightful, attractive

  14. HERCULEAN (adj.) • Relating to Hercules (use capital H); characterized by great strength; very hard to do in the sense of requiring unusual strength (use lowercase h) • Syn: mighty, powerful, arduous, onerous, colossal • Ant: puny, Lilliputian, bantam

  15. IMPASSIVE (adj.) • Showing no feeling or emotion; inanimate; motionless • Syn: emotionless, stoical, unemotional, insensible • Ant: emotional, passionate, excitable

  16. INAUSPICIOUS (adj.) • Unfavorable, unlucky, suggesting bad luck for the future • Syn: unpropitious, unpromising, untimely • Ant: propitious, favorable

  17. INCONTROVERTIBLE (adj.) • Unquestionable, beyond dispute • Syn: incontestable, indisputable, indubitable • Ant: debatable, dubious, open to question

  18. NONPLUSSED (adj. part.) • Puzzled, not knowing what to do, at a loss • Syn: perplexed, baffled, stumped, flabbergasted • Ant: poised, confident, assured

  19. OPPORTUNE (adj.) • Suitable or convenient for a particular purpose; occurring at an appropriate time • Syn: timely, appropriate, felicitous • Ant: untimely, inconvenient, inappropriate

  20. PROLIFIC (adj.) • Abundantly productive; abundant, profuse • Syn: fruitful, fecund, proliferous • Ant: barren, unproductive, sterile, sparse

  21. REJOINDER (n.) • A reply to a reply, especially from the defendant in a legal suit • Syn: answer, reply, response, riposte, retort

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