English 3 Semester 2 Week 1

Marked by lavish attentiveness; Excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons

• Obsequious

• Paradox

• Rationalize

• Tantamount

A seemingly contradictory statement

• Abysmal

• Vehemently

• Paradox

• Dilemma

To give a reasonable explanation; To explain or justify on reasonable grounds

• Serendipity

• Rationalize

• Indolence

• Parasite

Equivalent; Having the same meaning, value, or effect; Equal to

• Tantamount

• Vehemently

• Parasite

• Paradox

Intensely; Forcefully, powerfully

• Dilemma

• Rationalize

• Vehemently

• Obsequious

Extremely bad

• Abysmal

• Serendipity

• Indolence

• Tantamount

Puzzling situation

• Obsequious

• Paradox

• Dilemma

• Abysmal

Laziness

• Indolence

• Rationalize

• Parasite

• Abysmal

1. Scrounger; 2. Animal which takes digested food from another

• Serendipity

• Indolence

• Vehemently

• Parasite

Fortunate coincidence; Unsought discovery

• Dilemma

• Tantamount

• Paradox

• Serendipity