Improving Vocabulary Skills Chapter 3

To end or stop

• engross

• terminate

• escalate

• exploit

Close; near something

• adjacent

• acclaim

• tangible

• obsolete

To expand; to increase or intensify

• acclaim

• exploit

• escalate

• terminate

Orderly; systematic

• obsolete

• adjacent

• acclaim

• methodical

Praise; enthusiastic approval

• acclaim

• elicit

• engross

• tangible

To bring out; draw forth

• acclaim

• terminate

• elicit

• escalate

Solid; able to be touched

• terminate

• tangible

• acclaim

• engross

To hold the interest of; absorb

• engross

• acclaim

• obsolete

• methodical

To take advantage of; to use unethically

• acclaim

• terminate

• tangible

• exploit

Extinct; no longer active

• terminate

• obsolete

• adjacent

• elicit