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