S2 Vocabulary List #8

A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else

• antithesis

• catalyst

• chicanery

• hedonist

Showing strong feelings

• Ardent

• Diffident

• Eclectic

• Fallacious

An event or person that causes great change

• Catalyst

• Hedonist

• Antithesis

• Chicanery

The use of trickery to achieve political, financial, or legal purpose

• Chicanery

• Hedonist

• Antithesis

• Catalyst

shy and not confident in your abilities

• Diffident

• Ardent

• Incisive

• Eclectic

Methods, beliefs, ideas, style, or tastes that pull from a broad and diverse range of sources that combine the best or most useful elements

• Eclectic

• Fallacious

• Incisive

• Diffident

To show or declare that (someone) is not guilty of wrongdoing

• Exculpate

• Implore

• Obfuscate

• Extol

Based on a mistaken belief

• Fallacious

• Incisive

• Eclectic

• Ardent

To beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something

• Implore

• Extol

• Exculpate

• Obfuscate

(of a person or mental process) expressing an idea or opinion in a clear and direct way that shows good understanding of what is important

• Incisive

• Fallacious

• Ardent

• Eclectic