Advanced Vocabulary Booster #1

Adjective

1. Calculated to produce a startling impression

2. Intended to thrill

• deter

• sensational

• obnoxious

• thrilling

Adjective

1. Odious

2. Objectionable

3. Offensive

• harmless

• hateful

• tedious

• obnoxious

Adjective

1. Vengeful

2. Characterized by a desire for revenge or retribution

• revenge

• vengeance

• vindictive

• vendetta

Adjective

1. Excessively modest, demur, or prim

2. Uptight

• prudish

• unpretentious

• timid

• shy

Verb

1. Discourage and stop by inciting fear or doubt

• incriminate

• prosecute

• absolve

• deter

Adjective

1. Capable of being done

2. Possible

3. Viable

• erotomania

• viability

• feasible

• doing

Adjective

1. Anxious

2. Apprehensive

3. Deeply concerned

• solicitor

• soliciting

• solicitous

• anxiety

Adjective

1. Solitary, lonely, miserable

2. Uninhabited, abandoned

3. Rhymes with “chocolate”

• commentate

• passionate

• surrogate

• desolate

Adjective

1. Hard to please

2. Easily disgusted

3. Squeamish

• obese

• fastidious

• impossible

• nauseous