Vocab Unit 10

• Adv. with suspicion, distrust, or disapproval
• Synonyms: distrustfully, suspiciously, skeptically

• V. To make thin or slender; to weaken or lessen in force, intensity, or value
• Synonyms: thin out, dilute, water down
• Antonyms: Thicken, strengthen, bolster

• Adj. Gentle, kind; forgiving, understanding; having a favorable or beneficial effect, not malignant
• Synonyms: benevolent, salutary, salubrious, harmless
• Antonyms: malevolent, deleterious

• V. to find fault in a petty way, carp
• N. a trivial objection or criticism
• Synonyms: nitpick, quibble

• N. One who feigns knowledge or ability; a pretender, impostor, or quack
• Synonyms: fraud, mountebank

• V. to kill or destroy a large part of
• Synonyms: ravage, devastate

• N. a weak point, failing, minor flaw
• Synonyms: shortcoming, defect, quirk
• Antonyms: Forte, virtue

• V. to do without, abstain from, give up
• Synonyms: refrain from, renounce
• Antonyms: indulge in, partake of

• Adj. full of or loaded with; accompanied by
• Synonym: charged with
• Antonyms: devoid of, lacking, deficient in

• V. to toughen, harden; to render used to something by long subjection or exposure
• Synonyms: accustom, acclimate

• Adj. emitting or reflecting light, glowing; illuminating
• Synonyms: radiant, bright, refulgent, lustrous
• Antonyms: dark, opaque, dim, murky

• Adj. marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons
• Synonyms: fawning, servile, sycophant, mealymouthed
• Antonyms: assertive, bumptious, overbearing, candid, frank, independent

• Adj. Blunt, not coming to a point; slow or dull in understanding; measuring between 90° and 180°, not causing a sharp impression
• Synonyms: stupid, dumb, thick, mild, dull-witted
• Antonyms: acute, perspective, quick-witted

• V. to swing back and forth with a steady rhythm; to fluctuate or waver
• Synonyms: vibrate, vacillate

• Adj. regretful for one's sins or mistakes
• N. one who is sorry for wrongdoing
• Synonyms: remorseful, regretful, rueful, sorry
• Antonyms: unrepentant, remorseless

• Adj. having the nature of a command that leaves no opportunity for debate, denial, or refusal; offensively self-assured, dictatorial; determined, resolute
• Synonyms: high-handed, unconditional
• Antonyms: irresolute, tentative, mild, unassuming

• V. To snub; to repel, drive away
• N. A curt rejection, a check
• Synonyms: V. spurn, repulse, reject N. setback
• Antonyms: accept, welcome

• V. to engage in reconnaissance; to a make a preliminary inspection
• Synonym: scout

N. A slaughterhouse; a place of mass bloodshed; a state of complete disorder and confusion, mess

• Adj. occurring at irregular intervals, having no set plan or order
• Synonyms: intermittent, spasmodic
• Antonyms: constant, steady, continuous, uninterrupted