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Unit 5 Synonyms
English III Honors
Vocabulary Word | Synonyms |
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amnesty | forgiveness or absolution |
autonomy | home rule |
axiomatic | taken for granted |
blazon | broadcast, trumpet |
caveat | admonition, word to the wise |
equitable | right, reasonable, evenhanded |
extricate | disentangle, extract, disengage |
filch | pilfer purloin, swipe, peculate |
flout | scoff at, sneer at, snicker at, scorn |
fractious | refractory, recalcitrant, peevish, querulous, petulant |
precept | principle, maxim, axium, caveat |
salutary | salubrious, curative |
scathing | searing, harsh, ferocious, savage, vitrolic, scurrilous |
scourge | flog, beat; bane, plague, pestilence |
sepulchral | doleful, lugubrious, mortuary |
soporific | narcotic, anesthetic |
straitlaced | highly conventional, overly strict, stuffy, stringent |
transient | impermanent, ephemeral, evanescent |
unwieldy | cumbersome, bulky, clumsy, impractical |
vapid | insipid, lifeless, colorless, sopofific |