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Vocabulary #4
affiliate-venial
Words | Definitions | Antonyms |
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affiliated | associated, connected | unconnected, dissociated |
acertain | to find out | |
attainment | an accomplishment; the act of achieving | a failure, defeat; frustration |
bequeath | to give or pass on as an inheritance | |
cogent | forceful, convincing; relevant, to the point | unconvincing, weak, ineffective; irrelevant |
converge | to move toward one point, approach nearer together | to diverge, seperate, go seperate ways |
disperse | to scatter, spread far and wide | to collect, congregate, assemble, muster |
esteem | to regard highly, a highly favorable opinion or judgement | disdain, scorn, contempt |
expunge | to erase, obliterate, destroy | to insert, to mark, imprint, impress |
finite | having limits; lasting for a limited time | unlimited, inmeasureable, everlasting, eternal |
Invulnerable | not able to be wounded or hurt; shieldeded aganist attack | exposed, unprotected, defenseless |
Malevolent | spiteful, showing ill will | kind, benevolent, compassionate |
Nonchalant | cool and confident, unconcerned | perpturbed; agitated, disconcerted, abashed |
Omniscient | knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding | ignorant, unknowing |
Panacea | a remedy for all ills, cure-all; an answer to all problems | (blank) |
Scrupulous | exact; careful, attending throughly to details; having high moral standards , principled | careless, negligent, remiss; dishonest |
Skulk | to move about stealthily; to lie in hiding | (blank) |
Supercilious | proud and contemptuous; showing scorn because of a feeling of superiority | humble, meek, deferential, servile |
Uncanny | strange, mysterious, weird, beyond explanation | (blank) |
Venial | easily excused; pardonable | unpardonable, unforgivable, inexcusable |