Benchmark 3 Vocabulary

a synonym for amnesty is....

• equanimity

• culpability

• gratitude

• forgiveness

a synonym for curtail is....

• diminish

• aggrandize

• acknowledge

• eschew

a synonym for debase is...

• raise

• lower

• deny

• accept

a synonym for aura is ...

• hemisphere

• stratosphere

• atomosphere

• color

an antonym for berate....

• castigate

• laud

• equivocate

• extenutate

an antonym for berate...

• embroil

• inhibit

• elucidate

• gesticulate

an antonym for exhume is...

• examine

• unearth

• bury

• actual

An antonym for perfunctory ...

• new

• long

• incisive

• shallow

definition for the word CARPING

• tending to find fault

• to thrash

• holding together

• none of these

definition for ACQUISITIVE

• to be able to get and retain ideas

• to claim or take without right

• trite

• to work on excessively