Vocab SS2

The word Mesmerized MOST NEARLY means:

• marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger

• incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved

• to subject to hypnotize, spellbind

• to draw back or in, to recant or disavow something

The word Impede MOST NEARLY means:

• to interfere with or slow the progress of

• a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs

• a turning to someone or something for help or protection, a source of help or strength

• involved, intricate

The word Equalize MOST NEARLY means

• a turning to someone or something for help or protection, a source of help or strength

• widely acclaimed and highly honored

• to make equal; to compensate for; to make uniform

• a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs

The word Endorse MOST NEARLY means

• to examine closely and minutely

• to write on the back of, inscribe

• to subject to hypnotize, spellbind

• a turning to someone or something for help or protection, a source of help or strength

The word Rejuvenated MOST NEARLY means

• producing no injury, not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility

• to make material: objectify; to cause to appear in bodily form

• involved, intricate

• to make young or youthful again : give new vigor to, to restore to an original or new state

The word Scrutinize MOST NEARLY means

• to examine closely and minutely

• to draw back or in, to recant or disavow something

• incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved

• to interfere with or slow the progress of

The word Innocuous MOST NEARLY means

• feeling or showing acceptance that something unwanted or unpleasant will happen or cannot be changed,

• a turning to someone or something for help or protection, a source of help or strength

• producing no injury, not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility

• to attribute ideal characteristics to; to give an ideal form or value to; to treat idealistically

The word Interminable MOST NEARLY means

• to slip away, to take refuge in escape or avoidance

• having or seeming to have no end

• to make material: objectify; to cause to appear in bodily form

• a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury

The word Repel MOST NEARLY means

• to drive back, to fight against, reject

• to make young or youthful again : give new vigor to, to restore to an original or new state

• widely acclaimed and highly honored

• to make material: objectify; to cause to appear in bodily form

The word Recuperate MOST NEARLY means

• to make material: objectify; to cause to appear in bodily form

• to drive back, to fight against, reject

• to get back, to bring back into use or currency, to regain a former state or condition, to recover health or strength

• a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury