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Word Master #3
Word Master #3
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Language - English
7th Grade
03/17/2015

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Term
Rasp (Verb/Noun)
Definition


Rasper,Raspingly,Raspish

1. To scrape something roughly

2. To utter with a granting sound

3. A file used to cut wood

Synonym: File

Antonym: Soothe

"Let go of my Arm" She rasped.


Term
Sunder(Verb)
Definition

Sundered, Sundering, Sunderable, Sunderer, Sunderance

1. To be broken apart; seperated

Synonym: Split

Antonym: Unite

A family was sundered by the scandle.


Term
Listless (Adjective)
Definition

Listlessly, Listlessness

1. Having or showing no or little spirit or energy

Synonym: Bored

Antonym: Alive/Active

The cold made everyone listless.

Term
Charlatan(Noun)
Definition

Charlatanic, Clarlatanish, Clarlatanistic, Clarlatanically

1. Pretending to be something you aren't or pretend to know some skill you don't

Synonym: Con Artist

Antonym: Honesty

It turns out the famous healer was a Charlatan.

Term
Rout(Noun/Verb)
Definition

1. A mob

2. An defeat

3. A large party or gathering

4. To defeat decisivly

Synonym: Disaster

Antonym: Triumph


Term
Toothsome(Adjective)
Definition

Toothsomely, Toothsomeness

1. Pleasing to taste

2. Desirable, for fame or power

Synonym:

Antynom:

Toothsome and satisfying, brown rice is rice that hasn't been messed with.

Term
Smidgen(Noun/Verb phrase)
Definition

1. A very small amount

Synonym: Particle

Antonym: Bunch

Yes, they have lost a smidgen of their physical genius.

Term
Deplete(Verb)
Definition

Depletable, Depletive, Dipletory, Nondepletable, Nondepletion

1. Exhaut the supply of

Synonym: Drain

Antonym: Raise

The plants and algae deplete the amount of oxygen supply.

Term
Morose(Adjective)
Definition

Morosely

1. Gloomy and ill humored

2. Characterized by expressing gloom

Synonym: Cranky

Antonym: Bright

He was unusally morose, even for a man who is usually morose.

Term
Cacophony(Plural Noun)
Definition

1. Meaningless mixture of sounds

2. Harsh sound

Synonym: Noise

Antonym: Quiet


Term
Splice(Verb/Noun)
Definition

1. To join or unite

2. Joining of two ropes

Synonym: Braid

Antonym: Disconnect

Term
Makeshift(Noun/Adjective)
Definition

1. A temporary subsitute

Synonym: Make-do

Antonym: Permanent

Hunderds of thousand are living in a makeshfit camps.

Term
Smattering(Noun/Adjective)
Definition

1. New knowledge

2. Slight or superficial

Synonym: Basics 

Antonym: 

  • It's amazing how a smattering of solar homes can prevent enormous blackouts.
Term
Loiter(Verb)
Definition

1. To linger aimlessly

2. To pass time in a aimless manner

Synonym: Daydreaming

Antonym: Continue

  • Some people can loiter in the air for long periods.
Term
Cheeky(Adjective)
Definition

1. Impudent, Insolent

Synonym: Nervy

Antonym: Fearful

  • It was incredibly cheeky for the government to then insist that universitiesboth provide and pay for this work.
Term
Downfall(Noun)
Definition

1. Failure

2. A trap using weight to trap prey

Synonym: Breakdown

Antonym: Success

  • Librarians planted the seeds of their own destruction and are responsible fortheir own downfall.
Term
Splay(Verb/Noun/Adjective)
Definition

Unsplayed

1. To spread out or expand

2. A surface that makes an oblique angle with another

3. Clumsy and awkward

Synonym: Expansive

Antonym: Limited

The police splayed out to find the criminal.

Term
Acrid(Adjective)
Definition

Acridity, Subacrid, Subacridly, Subacridness

1. Bitter smell or taste

Synonym: Stinging

Antonym: Sweet

The acrid smoke from the buring rubber smells teribble.

Term
Fray(Noun/Verb)
Definition

Frayed

1. A fight or a contest

2. To frighten

Synonym: Melee

Antonym: Truce

He jumped out and frayed me

Term
Mar(Verb)
Definition

Marred, Marring

1. To damage and becomes less perfect and attractive 

2. To disfigure or deface

Synonym: Deface

Antonym: Fix

Factual errors may mar the essay.

Term
Riven(Verb/Adjective)
Definition

Unriven

1. Past particle of rive

2. Split apart

Synonym: Divide

Antonym: Join

  • Lame duck president, deeply riven board, ridiculous faculty senate.
Term
Harmony(Plural Noun)
Definition

Nonharmony, Preharmony, Nonharmonies

1. Agreement; accord; harmonious relations.

2.A consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts; congruity3. Any simultaneous combination of tones.

Synonym: Unity

Antonym: Disagreement

  • But far from promoting social harmonythe preoccupation with talent hadproduced social breakdown.
Term
Chisel(Noun/Verb)
Definition

1. A steel tool that is used to cut or shape wood, metal, etc.

2. To cut or shape something

3. To cheat or swinddle someone

Synonym: Knife

Antonym: Flat edged

He used the chisel to make a cat out of wood.

Term
Dulcet(Adjective/Noun)
Definition

Dulcently, Dulcentness

1. Pleasant to the ear; soothing

2. An organ stop representing dulciana, but an octave higher

Synonym: Pleasureable

Antonym: Ugly

Together with the dulcet tones of Jacqui, they made a really sweet noise.

Term
Roughhewn(Adjective)
Definition

1. Being in a rough, unsmooth, unfinished state

2. Lacking refinement

Synonym: Unpolished

Antonym: Complete


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