Unit 3

1. Unit 3 Vocabulary

2. Abridge • (v) To make shorter • To abridge a 1000-page novel • abbreviate, abstract, blue pencil, chop, clip, compress, concentrate, condense, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, digest, diminish, downsize, lessen, limit, narrow, put in nutshell, reduce, restrict, slash, snip, summarize, trim, truncate

3. Adherent • (n) a follower, supporter; • (adj) attached, sticking to • Has attracted many adherent • agglutinant, attaching, clinging, clingy, gelatinous, glutinous, gooey, gummed, gummy, holding, hugging, mucilaginous, pasty, resinous, sticky, tenacious, viscid, viscous, waxy agglutinant, attaching, clinging, clingy, gelatinous, glutinous, gooey, gummed, gummy, holding, hugging, mucilaginous, pasty, resinous, sticky, tenacious, viscid, viscous, waxy

4. Altercation • (n) An angry argument • Involved in a noisy altercation • argument, beef, bickering, blowup, bone of contention, brawl*, brush*, combat, contest, controversy, dispute, embroilment, flap, fracas*, fuss, go*, hassle, quarrel, row, rumble*, run-in, set-to, squabbling, tiff, words, wrangle

5. Reprimand • (n) a severe reproof or rebuke, esp. a formal one by a person in authority • (v) to reprove or rebuke severely, esp. in a formal way • admonishment, admonition, bawling out, blame, calling down, castigation, censure, chiding, comeuppance, dressing-down, going over, grooming, hard time, lecture, piece of one's mind, ragging, rap, rebuke, reprehension, reproof, scolding, slap on wrist, talking-to, telling-off, tongue-lashing, what for

6. Condone • (v) To pardon or overlook • Refuse to condone bad behavior • buy, disregard, excuse, forget, forgive, give green light, go along with, ignore, lap up, let it come, let it go by, let pass, look the other way, nod at, okay, overlook, pardon, pass over, remit, wink at

7. Dissent • (v) To disagree • (n) Disagreement • Dissent from the majority view • bone of contention, bone to pick, bone, clinker, conflict, contention, denial, difference, disaccord, discord, dissension, dissidence, disunity, far cry, flak, hassle, heresy, heterodoxy, misbelief, nonagreement, nonconcurrence, nonconformism, nonconformity, nope, objection, opposition, poles apart, protest, refusal, resistance, schism, sour note, spat, split, strife, unorthodoxy, variance

8. Eminent • (adj) Famous, outstanding, distinguished • An eminent member of the bar • VIP, august, big-gun, big-league, big-name, big-time, celeb, celebrated, celebrious, conspicuous, distinguished, dominant, elevated, esteemed, exalted, famed, grand, great, high, high-ranking, illustrious, leonine, lionlike, lofty, name, noble, notable, noted, noteworthy, of note, outstanding, page-oner, paramount, preeminent, prestigious, prominent, redoubted, renowned, star, superior, superstar, well-known

9. Exorcise • (v) To drive out by magic; to dispose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive • To exorcise an evil spirit • cast out, dismiss, drive out, expel, purge, purify, remove

10. Fabricate • (v) To make, manufacture; to make up, invent • Learned how to fabricate steel • assemble, brainstorm, build, cobble up, compose, concoct, construct, contrive, cook up, create, devise, dream up, erect, fashion, fit together, form, formulate, frame, head trip, invent, join, knock together, make, make up, mix, organize, piece together, prefab, produce, put together, shape, structure, think up, throw together, throw up, turn out, whip up, whomp up

11. Irate • (adj) Angry • Try to calm an irate parent • angered, annoyed, blown a gasket, enraged, exasperated, fuming, furious, incensed, indignant, infuriated, irritated, livid, mad, piqued, provoked, riled, steamed, ticked off, up in arms, worked up, wrathful, wroth

12. Marauder • (n) A raider, plunderer • A village raided by marauders • bandit, buccaneer, corsair, freebooter, looter, outlaw, pirate, plunderer, ravager, robber, thief

13. Obesity • (n) Extreme fatness • Suffering from obesity • blubber, bulk, cellulite, corpulence, excess, fatness, flab, flesh, grease, lard, obesity, overabundance, overflow, paunch, plethora, suet, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, tallow

14. Pauper • (n) An extremely poor person • Help for the pauper in our community • almsperson, bankrupt, beggar, bum, dependent, destitute, down-and-out, have-not, homeless person, in the gutter, indigent, insolvent, lazarus, mendicant, poor person, supplicant

15. Pilfer • (v) To steal in small quantities • Pilfer stamps from the cash box • annex, appropriate, borrow, cop, crib*, filch, liberate*, lift*, moonlight, palm, pinch*, pluck, purloin, requisition, rip off, rob, scrounge, snare, snatch, swipe, take, thieve, walk off with

16. Rift • (v) A split, break, breach • An unfortunate rift in their friendship • breach, chink, cleft, cranny, crevice, fault, fissure, flaw, fracture, gap, hiatus, interruption, interval, opening, parting, rent, rima, rime, space, split

17. Semblance • (n) a likeness; an outward appearance • Tried to create a semblance of order • affinity, air, alikeness, analogy, aspect, bearing, comparison, facade, face, false front, feel, feeling, figure, form, front, guise, image, likeness, mask, mien, mood, pose, pretense, resemblance, seeming, show, showing, similarity, simile, similitude, simulacrum, veil, veneer

18. Surmount • (v) to overcome, rise above • Struggle to surmount all obstacles • best, better, cap, clear, conquer, crest, crown, defeat, down, exceed, hurdle, leap, lick*, negotiate, outdo, outstrip, over, overpower, overtop, pass, prevail over, rise above, subdue, surpass, throw*, top*, vanquish, vault

19. Terminate • (v) To bring to an end • Terminate my employment • abolish, abort, achieve, adjourn, annul, bounce, bound, bring to an end, cancel, cease, close, come to an end, complete, conclude, confine, cut off, define, desist, determine, discharge, discontinue, dismiss, dissolve, drop, eliminate, end, expire, extinguish, fire, halt, issue, lapse, limit, perfect, prorogate, prorogue, put an end to, recess, restrict, result, run out, sack, scratch, scrub, tether, ultimate, wind down, wind up, wrap up, wrap*

20. Trite • (adj) Commonplace; overused, stale • Full of clichés and trite phrases • banal, bathetic, bromidic, chain, cliché, clichéd, common, cornball, corny*, drained, dull, exhausted, familiar tune, flat, hackneyed, hokey, jejune, mildewed, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, ordinary, pedestrian, platitudinous, prosaic, ready-made, routine, run-of-the-mill, set, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, uninspired, unoriginal, used-up, vapid, warmed-over, well-worn, worn, worn-out

21. Usurp • (v) To seize and hold a position by force or without right • Plot to usurp power • accroach, annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume, barge in, butt in, clap hands on, commandeer, cut out, displace, elbow in, get hands on, grab, grab hold of, highjack, infringe upon, lay hold of, muscle in, preempt, seize, squeeze in, supplant, swipe, take, work in, worm in, wrest