Vocabulary Workshop Level G Unit 5

Acuity

(n.) sharpness (particularly of the mind or senses)
S: keenness, acuteness
A: dullness, obtuseness

Delineate

(v.) to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially
S: depict, picture, render

Depraved

(adj.) marked by evil and corruption, devoid of moral principles
S: perverted, degenerate, vicious, corrupt
A: moral, virtuous, upright, uncorrupt

Enervate

(v.) to weaken of lessens the mental, moral, or physical vigor of enfeeble hamstring
S: impair, cripple, paralyze
A: invigorate, strengthen, buttress

Esoteric

(adj.) intended for or understand by only a select few, private, secret
S: occult, cryptic, arcane, recondite
A: accessible, comprehensible, intelligible

Fecund

(adj.) fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive
S: fertile, teeming, prolific
A: infertile, barren, unproductive

Fiat

(n.) an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness
S: edict, dictum, ukase

Figment

(n.) a fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion
S: creation, invention, fancy

Garner

(v.) to aquire as the result of effort; to gather and store away, as for future use
S: collect, accumulate, accrue
A: scatter,squander, waste, dissipate

Hallow

(v.) to set apart as holy or sacred, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly , revere
S: venerate, bless
A: desecrate, defile, profane

Idiosyncracy

(n.) a peculiaritytht serves to sdidtinguidh or identify
S: eccentricity, quirk, mannerism

Ignominy

(n.) shame and disgrace
S: dishonor, humiliation, disrepute, odium
A: honor, glory, acclaim

Mundane

(adj.) earthy, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concetned with what is ordinary
S: prosaic, humdrum, routine, sublunary
A: heavenly, unworldly, spiritual, transcendental

Nuance

(n.) a subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality), delicate graduation or shade of difference
S: shade, nicety, refinement

Overweening

(adj.) conceited, presumptuous, excessive, immoderate
S: arrogant, unbridled, inflated
A: strained, understated, modest, meek

Penchant

(n.) a strong attraction or inclination
S: proclivity, propensity, predilection
A: disinclination, aversion

Reputed

(adj.) according to putation or general belief; having widespread acceptance and good reputation; (part.) alleged
S: putative, reputable, supposed
A: proven, corrobated, authenticated

Sophistry

(n.) reasoning that seems plausible but is acutally unsound; a fallacy
S: specious reasoning

Sumptuous

(adj.) costly, rich, magnificient
S: lavish, munificient, opulentm, splendid
A: skimpy, meager, stingy, niggardly, spartan

Ubiquitous

(adj.) present or existing everywhere
S: omnipresent, pervasive, universal
A: restricted, limited, rare, scarce