Vocabulary 4
Using Synonyms
Convoluted
• Having many overlapping folds or paths; complicated; complex; involved
Endorse
• Give approval or support to; favor
Enhance
• Heighten, intensify; increase, raise
Evade
• Escape or avoid by cleverness; outwit, avoid
Giddy
• Lighthearted; silly; foolish; deliriously happy
Impede
• Interfere with; slow the progress of; block
Innocuous
• Harmless; inoffensive
Insuperable
• Impossible to overcome; invincible, unbeatable
Interminable
• Having or seeming to have no end; infinite, perpetual
Wary
• Watchful, cautious; doubtful, suspecting
Vocabulary 5
The Prefix re-
Recourse
• Turning to someone or something for help or protection; a turning to something
Recuperate
• To recover health or strength; become healthy again
Refute
• To prove false by argument; argue back
Rejuvenated
• Made youthful or new again; made young again
Remorse
• Deep pain caused by guilt for past wrongdoing; repeated gnawing in one’s gut
Renowned
• Widely known; widely honored or famous
Repel
• To keep away; fight back; force back
Resentment
• Ill will felt as a result of a perceived insult or injury; rancor directed at a slight
Resigned
• Deliberately giving up; accepting; to renounce or relinquish; giving up
Retract
• To take back; draw back; pull back
Vocabulary 6
The Suffix -ize
Centralize
• Draw toward a center; bring under central control; to become central
Economize
• Become careful in spending money; reduce spending or avoid waste
Equalize
• Make equal
Idealize
• Become ideal or perfect; to regard as excellent or perfect
Immobilize
• Make unmovable or fix the position of; make unable to move
Materialize
• Become substantial or real; take on concrete form; appear suddenly
Maximize
• Cause to become the greatest; increase or make as great as possible
Mesmerize
• Hypnotize; fascinate
Rationalize
• Treat with reason; make something understandable; to come up with believable but untrue reasons for one’s behavior
Scrutinize
• Treat with close examination; examine or observe carefully