2.5 Vocabulary Words Contrasted Words, Synonyms, and Related Words

venerate

contrasted words: spurn, deride, execrate

sadistic

contrasted words: masochistic

pragmatic

contrasted words: idealistic, speculative, theoretical, abstract

disparage

contrasted words: laud, extol, commend, esteem

adamant

contrasted words: complaint, accommodating, capitulating

abominable

contrasted words: laudable, commendable

ominous

contrasted words: auspicious, benign, propitious

venerate

Synonyms: respect, honor, admire, worship, revere

venerate

Related Words: idolize, esteem, extol

sadistic

Synonyms: brutal, vicious, perversely

sadistic

Related Words: fiendish, perverted

malapropism

Synonyms: misusage, verbal blunder, spoonerism

malapropism

Related Words: solecism

pragmatic

Synonyms: realistic, sensible, workable, utilitarian

disparage

Related Words: depreciate, deprecate, decry, denigrate, demean, detract

disparage

Synonyms: degrade, minimize, downgrade, belittle

vegetate

Related Words: languish, rusticate, be inert, be passive

vegetate

Synonyms: be idle, be sluggish, stagnate

adamant

Related Words: inexorable

adamant

Synonyms: firm, rigid, immovable, fixed, unchangeable, obdurate

conjugal

Synonyms: married, matrimonial, wedded, marital

conjugal

related Words: nuptial, connubial

abominable

Synonyms: revolting, horrible, awful, loathsome

abominable

Related Words: abhorrent, detestable, despicable, horrid, repugnant, vile, odious, atrocious, execrable

ominous

Synonyms: unfavorable, unlucky, sinister, menacing, ill-omened, foreboding

ominous

Related Words: dire, direful, baleful, inauspicious, unpropitious