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Sugarman Unit 4 honors list

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Atrophy

a)

(n.) the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure

(v.) to waste away

b)

Syn: (n.) degeneration, deterioration (v.) wither

Ant:(n.) growth, development

(v.) mature, develop

c)

(adj) so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring; overused

d)

Syn: cliched

trite

Ant: fresh

new

2.

bastion

a)

(n) a grossly immoral act; wickedness, sin

b)

Syn: evil

crime

c)

(n.) a fortified place, stronghold

d)

Syn: citadel, rampart

3.

concord

a)

(n.) a state of agreement, harmony; a pact

b)

(Syn: treaty, covenant)

(Ant: disagreement, strife)

c)

(Syn: adj) masterful

(Syn: v) clinch, conclude

(ant: (v) launch, initiate, begin)

d)

(v) to proclaim or issue officially; to make known far and wide

4.

consummate

a)

(v.) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging way

b)

confront

approach

c)

(adj.) complete or perfect in the highest degree;

(v.) to bring to a state of completion or perfection

d)

(adj) masterful

(v) clinch, conclude

5.

disarray

a)

(adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course;

done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way

b)

(n.) disorder, confusion

(v.) to throw into disorder

c)

Syn: roundabout indirect;

tricky

sly

d)

(Syn: (n) disorganization

(v) dishevel, mess up)

(Ant: (n) order,

tidiness, organization)

6.

frenetic

a)

(adj.) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up trouble or rebellion

(n.) one who deliberately sets fires; one who causes strife

b)

(adj.) frenzied, highly agitated

c)

Syn: frantic, overwrought

Ant: calm, controlled, relaxed, leisurely

d)

Ant: soothing

quieting

peacemaker

7.

glean

a)

(adj) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

b)

(v.) to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers

c)

Syn: collect, cull

d)

Syn: retentive

greedy

grasping

Ant: unretentive

altruistic

8.

grouse

a)

(n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher

(adj.) calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent

b)

(n.) a type of game bird; a complaint;

(v.) to complain

c)

syn: gripe, grumble

d)

Syn: tranquil, serene, placid

Ant: turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous

9.

incarcerate

a)

(n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

b)

(v.) to imprison, confine, jail

c)

Syn: promptness, alacrity, speed

d)

Syn: Inturn, immure

Ant:liberate, release, free

10.

mordant

a)

(adj.) biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh

b)

syn: acrimonious, sardonic, scathing

Ant: bland, mild, gentle, soothing

c)

(adj) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

d)

Syn: connected, unified, cohesive,

Ant: muddled, chaotic, disjointed

11.

nettle

a)

(n.) a prickly or stinging plant

(v.) to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severely

b)

animadversion

(n.) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval

c)

syn: rebuke, reproof

Ant: praise, compliment

d)

Syn: (v.) peeve, annoy, irk

Ant: (v.) please, delight, soothe, pacify

12.

pecuniary

a)

Syn: nit picking,

Ant: Flattering

b)

(adj) used to describe someone who finds something wrong with everything;  (n) nagging criticism

c)

(adj.) consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money

d)

Syn: monetary, financial

13.

pusillanimous

a)

(adj.) contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited

b)

Syn: keen, enthusiastic

Ant: reluctant, Indifferent, unenthusiastic

c)

Syn: craven, lily-livered

Ant: stouthearted, courageous, daring

d)

(adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager

14.

recumbent

a)

syn: pertinent

ant: irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate

b)

(adj.) in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of sleeping or resting

c)

Syn: prone, prostrate, supine, inactive

Ant: upright, energetic, dynamic

d)

(adj) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

15.

Flotsam

a)

(n.) floating debris; 

homeless, impoverished people

b)

(n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction

c)

Syn: wreckage

d)

Syn: vortex

chaos

turbulence

tumult