UNITS 7-9 SYNONYMS

diminish, decrease, subside, let up

adoration, idolization, hero-worship

malediction, imprecation, abomination

acute, sagacious, judicious, wily

cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness

guilty, delinquent, peccant, blameworthy

stalling, slow, tardy, laggard

glaring, flagrant, blatant

to talk out of both sides of one’s mouth, palter, hedge

ephemeral, transient, transitory

indecisive, vacillating, wavering

hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, opaque, indeterminate 

neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice

destitution, indigence

ostentatious, inflated

review, summarize, go over

revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivate 

unkempt, slatternly, lax

assumption, presumption, hypothesis 

lethargic, languid

biting, rancorous, hostile, peevish

stolid, dull, slow, stupid

shock, amazement, bewilderment, dismay

overweight, heavy, obese, stout, portly

disclaim, retract, abjure

unbiased, disinterest, cool, detached

strife, discord, contention

disperse, strew, diffuse, waste

purge, censor, bowdlerize

dare, provocation, trial, punishment

assumed, supposed, conditional

inferior, unworthy, sordid

challenge, deny, dispute, query, question

excessive, extreme, unrestrained, inordinate

abhorrence, opprobrium, shame, ignominy

betrayal, disloyalty, treason

transfer, consign, demote, exile

nauseated, queasy, delicate, oversensitive, priggish

secondary, servile, obsequious, useful

vulnerable, receptive, impressionable

forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned

humanitarian, magnanimous, charitable

corpselike, wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly

create, fashion, rustle up

crude, tasteless, oafish, obtuse

cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate

profane, defile, violate

upset, rattle, ruffle, faze

majestic, bombastic, highfalutin

trivial, negligible, paltry

violation, transgression, offense

lessen, relieve, alleviate

(v.) ravage, sack, fool; (n.) booty

prattle, blab, palaver

precise, scrupulous

formidable, august

chastise, upbraid, reproach

reimbursement, redress, restoration

(adj.) sturdy, stout, intrepid, valiant; (n.) mainstay

defenseless, unguarded