Sadlier Level F Unit 4

• Aggrandize: to increase in greatness, power, or wealth; to build up or intensify; to make apear greater
• Amorphous: shapeless, without definite form; of no particular type or character; without organization, unit, or cohesion.
• Aura: that which surrounds (as an atmosphere); a distinctive air or personal quality
• Erudite: scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic
• Inscrutable: incapable of being understood; impossible to see through physically
• Propensity: a natural inclination or predilection toward
• Querulous: peevish, complaining, fretful
• Remonstrate: to argue with someone against something, protest against
• Resilient: able to return to an original shape or form; able to recover quickly
• Sedulous: persistent, showing industry and determination.
• Affable: courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to
• Archetype: an original model on which something was patterned or replicated; the ideal example of a particular type of person or thing
• Contraband: illegal traffic, smuggled goods; (adj.) illegal, prohibited
• Gossamer: thin, light, delicate, insubstancial; very thin, light cloth
• Insular: relating to, characteristic of, or situated on an island; narrow or isolated in outlook or experience
• Irrevocable: incapable of being changed or called back
• Repudiate: to disown, reject, or deny the validity of
• Reverberate: to re-echo, resound; to reflect or to be reflected repeatedly
• Scurrilous: coarsely abusive, vulgar or low (especially in language), foul-mouthed
• Sleazy: think or flimsy in texture; cheap; shoddy, or inferior in quality or character; ethnically low, mean, or disreputable.
• Syn: Ethereal - Gossamer
• Ant: Sturdy - Sleazy
• Syn: feeling - aura
• Syn: irreversible - irrevocable
• Syn: Tawdry - sleazy
• Syn: unreadable - inscrutable
• Syn: nebulous - amorphous
• Syn: disclaim - repudiate
• Syn: agreeable - affable
• Syn: illicit - contraband
• Syn: academic - erudite
• Ant: distinctive - amorphous
• Ant: officially permitted - contraband
• Ant: variable - irrevocable
• Ant: thick - gossamer
• Ant: diminish - aggrandize
• Ant: tasteful - scurrilous
• Ant: cosmopolitan - insular