Vocabulary Power Plus Book 3 Lesson 3

a violent change

• antithesis

• cataclysm

• emendation

• pedestrian

• altruism

a showy but useless thing

• bauble

• aegis

• impotent

• labyrinth

• bland

worn out; barren

• ephemeral

• fecund

• effete

• diaphanous

open to more than one interpretation

• diaphanous

• fecund

• ambiguous

• adventitious

to weaken

• gloat

• deviate

• extenuate

• enervate

ordinary or dull

• pedestrian

• parochial

• ambiguous

• adventitious

to confuse; to bewilder

• glower

• extenuate

• obfuscate

• edify

to lessen seriousness by providing partial excuses

• edify

• importune

• extenuate

• deviate

an exact opposite; an opposite extreme

• antithesis

• chagrin

• cataclysm

• maelstrom

in good faith

• fecund

• bona fide

• ignoble

• adventitious