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vocab 3 notes
Term | Definition |
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amity noun | friendship syn: peaceful harmony ant: disagreement, hostility |
cater verb | to supply what is needed or desired, especially support or food syn: provide contribute ant: neglect reject |
guise noun | a false appearance syn: semblance |
inconsequential adj | of little or no importance irrelevant without consequences syn: unnecessary unrelated ant: appropriate important |
jubilant adj | joyous especially during success syn: elated happy ant:depressed, disappointed |
placate verb | to calm to pacify syn: aprease satisfy ant: enrage anger |
preclude verb | to prevent syn: prohibit, forbid ant: allow, permit |
repress verb | to hold back or put down with force to suppress syn: restrain stifle ant: release permit |
saturate verb | to fill or soak to capacity syn: drench, permeate, infuse ant:desiccate, sear, parch |
slake verb 1 | to satisfy to quence syn: fulfill please |
slake verb 2 | to make less intense syn: migrate diminish ant: intensify amplify |
sortie noun 1 | a flight of a combat aircraft on a mission |
sortie noun 2 | an armed attack, especially against surrounding enemy forces syn:maneuver assault |
succumb verb | to submit reluctantly, to yield syn: give in surrender ant: withstand resist |
tranquil adj | calm peaceful syn: placid ant: bustling busy |
venomous adj | poisonous syn: toxic lethal ant: harmless, innocent, safe |
venomous adj | intentionally harmful, malevolent syn: malicious spiteful cruel ant: benevolent, benign kind |
wrest verb | to obtain through force usually twist and turning violently syn: wring, wrench |