Vocab Unit 11 S&A

abrogate

s: annul, revoke
a: renew, ratify

asperity

s: rigor, harshness
a: mildness, blandness, softness, lenience

burnish

s: (v) shine, buff
a: (v) dull, abrade

cabal

s: ring, gang, plot, conspiracy

delectable

s: (adj) scrumptious,
a: repugnant, repulsive, distasteful

deprecate

s: deplore, frown upon
a: smile on, approve

detritus

s: wreckage, ruins, rubble

ebullient

s:exhilarated, elated
a: gloomy, morose, sullen, apathetic, blase

eclectic

s: (adj) selective, synthetic, pick and choose
a: (adj) uniform, monolithic

flaccid

s: soft, flabby
a: hard, solid

impecunious

s: impoverished, indigent
a: affluent, wealthy, prosperous, rich

inexorable

s: ineluctable, obdurate
a: avoidable, yielding, pliant

moribund

s: obsolescent
a: thriving

necromancer

s: sorcerer, conjurer

onerous

s: weighty
a: light, easy, undemanding, untaxing

rife

a: devoid of, lacking

rudiments

s: basics, fundamentals

sequester

s: segregate, isolate, closet

winnow

s: sift, strain, filter, sort

abrogate

s: annul, revoke
a: renew, ratify

asperity

s: rigor, harshness
a: mildness, blandness, softness, lenience

burnish

s: (v) shine, buff
a: (v) dull, abrade

cabal

s: ring, gang, plot, conspiracy

delectable

s: (adj) scrumptious,
a: repugnant, repulsive, distasteful

deprecate

s: deplore, frown upon
a: smile on, approve

detritus

s: wreckage, ruins, rubble

ebullient

s:exhilarated, elated
a: gloomy, morose, sullen, apathetic, blase

eclectic

s: (adj) selective, synthetic, pick and choose
a: (adj) uniform, monolithic

flaccid

s: soft, flabby
a: hard, solid

impecunious

s: impoverished, indigent
a: affluent, wealthy, prosperous, rich

inexorable

s: ineluctable, obdurate
a: avoidable, yielding, pliant

moribund

s: obsolescent
a: thriving

necromancer

s: sorcerer, conjurer

onerous

s: weighty
a: light, easy, undemanding, untaxing

rife

a: devoid of, lacking

rudiments

s: basics, fundamentals

sequester

s: segregate, isolate, closet

winnow

s: sift, strain, filter, sort