The Century Vocabulary Builder Part 37

Recover, regain, retrieve, recoup, rally, recuperate.

Reflect, deliberate, ponder, muse, meditate, ruminate.

Relate, recount, recite, narrate, tell.

Replace, supersede, supplant, succeed.

Repulsive, unsightly, loathsome, hideous, grewsome.

Requital, retaliation, reprisal, revenge, vengeance, retribution.

Responsible, answerable, accountable, amenable, liable.

Reveal, disclose, divulge, manifest, show, betray.

Reverence, veneration, awe, adoration, wors.h.i.+p.

Ridicule, deride, mock, taunt, flout, twit, tease.

Ripe, mature, mellow.

Rise, arise, mount, ascend.

Rogue, knave, rascal, miscreant, scamp, sharper, villain.

Round, circular, rotund, spherical, globular, orbicular.

Rub, polish, burnish, furbish, scour.

Sad, grave, sober, moody, doleful, downcast, dreary, woeful, somber, unhappy, woebegone, mournful, depressed, despondent, gloomy, melancholy, heavy-spirited, sorrowful, dismal, dejected, disconsolate, miserable, lugubrious.

Satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, glut, gorge.

Scoff, jeer, gibe, fleer, sneer, mock, taunt.

Secret, covert, surrept.i.tious, furtive, clandestine, underhand, stealthy.

Seep, ooze, infiltrate, percolate, transude, exude.

Sell, barter, vend, trade.

Shape, form, figure, outline, conformation, configuration, contour, profile.

Share, partake, partic.i.p.ate, divide.

Sharp, keen, acute, cutting, trenchant, incisive.

Sh.o.r.e, coast, littoral, beach, strand, bank.

Shorten, abridge, abbreviate, curtail, truncate, syncopate.

Show (noun), display, ostentation, parade, pomp, splurge.

Show, exhibit, display, expose, manifest, evince.

Shrink, flinch, wince, blench, quail.

Shun, avoid, eschew.

Shy, bashful, diffident, modest, coy, timid, shrinking.

Sign, omen, auspice, portent, prognostic, augury, foretoken, adumbration, presage, indication.

Simple, innocent, artless, unsophisticated, naive.

Skilful, skilled, expert, adept, apt, proficient, adroit, dexterous, deft, clever, ingenious.

Skin, hide, pelt, fell.

Sleepy, drowsy, slumberous, somnolent, sluggish, torpid, dull, lethargic.

Slovenly, slatternly, dowdy, frowsy, blowzy.

Sly, crafty, cunning, subtle, wily, artful, politic, designing.

Smile, smirk, grin.

Solitary, lonely, lone, lonesome, desolate, deserted, uninhabited.

Sour, acid, tart, acrid, acidulous, acetose, acerbitous, astringent.

Speech, discourse, oration, address, sermon, declamation, dissertation, exhortation, disquisition, harangue, diatribe, tirade, screed, philippic, invective, rhapsody, plea.

Spruce, natty, dapper, smart, chic.

Stale, musty, frowzy, mildewed, fetid, rancid, rank.

Steep, precipitous, abrupt.

Stingy, close, miserly, n.i.g.g.ardly, parsimonious, penurious, sordid, Storm, tempest, whirlwind, hurricane, tornado, cyclone, typhoon Straight, perpendicular, vertical, plumb, erect, upright.

Strange, singular, peculiar, odd, queer, quaint, outlandish.

Strong, stout, robust, st.u.r.dy, stalwart, powerful.

Stupid, dull, obtuse, stolid, doltish, sluggish, brainless, bovine.

Succeed, prosper, thrive, flourish, triumph.

Succession, sequence, series.

Supernatural, preternatural, superhuman, miraculous.

Suppose, surmise, conjecture, presume, imagine, fancy, guess, think, believe.

Surprise, astonish, amaze, astound.

Swearing, cursing, profanity, blasphemy, execration, imprecation.

Teach, instruct, educate, train, discipline, drill, inculcate, instil, indoctrinate.

Thoughtful, contemplative, meditative, reflective, pensive, wistful.

Tire, weary, fatigue, exhaust, jade, f.a.g.

Tool, implement, instrument, utensil.

Trifle, dally, dawdle, potter.

Try, endeavor, essay, attempt.

Trust, confidence, reliance, a.s.surance, faith.

Turn, revolve, rotate, spin, whirl, gyrate.

Ugly, homely, uncomely, hideous.

Unwilling, reluctant, disinclined, loath, averse.

Watchful, vigilant, alert.

Wave (noun), billow, breaker, swell, ripple, undulation.

Wave (verb), brandish, flourish, flaunt, wigwag.

Weariness, languor, la.s.situde, enervation, exhaustion.

Wearisome, tiresome, irksome, tedious, humdrum.

Wet (adjective), humid, moist, damp, dank, sodden, soggy.

Wet (verb), moisten, dampen, soak, imbrue, saturate, drench Whim, caprice, vagary, fancy, freak, whimsey, crotchet.

Wind, breeze, gust, blast, flaw, gale, squall, flurry.

Wind, coil, twist, twine, wreathe.

Winding, tortuous, serpentine, sinuous, meandering.

Wonderful, marvelous, phenomenal, miraculous.

Workman, laborer, artisan, artificer, mechanic, craftsman.

Write, inscribe, scribble, scrawl, scratch.

Yearn, long, hanker, pine, crave.

EXERCISE F

Write three synonyms for each of the following words. Discriminate the three, and embody each of them in a sentence.

Accomplish Conduct (noun) Humble Scream Agree Conspicuous Indifferent Shrewd Anger Cringe Misfortune Shudder Attempt Difficult Obey Skill Big Disconnect Object (noun) Soft Brute Erratic Object (verb) Splash Business Flash Obligation Success Careless Fragrant Occupied Sweet Climb Gain Oppose Trick Collect Generous Persist Wash Commanding Grim Revise Wors.h.i.+p Compel Groan Room

EXERCISE G

Supply eight or ten intervening words between each of the following pairs.

Arrange the intervening words in an ascending scale.

Dark, bright Wet, dry Savage, civilized Beautiful, ugly Friend, enemy Hope, despair Wise, foolish Love, hate Enormous, minute Admirable, abominable Curse, bless Pride, humility