Level G Unit 10 (all)

(adv.) with suspicion, distrust, or disapproval

(v.) to make thin or slender; to weaken or lessen in force, intensity, or value

SYN: thin out, dilute, water down

ANT: thicken, strengthen, bolster

(adj.) gentle, kind; forgiving, understanding; having a favorable or beneficial effect; not malignant

SYN: benevolent, salutary, salubrious, harmless

ANT: malevolent, deleterious

(v.) to find fault in a petty way, carp; (n.) a trivial objection or criticism

SYN: Nitpick, quibble

(n.) one who feigns knowledge or ability; a pretender, impostor, or quack

SYN: fraud, mountebank

(v.) to kill or destroy a large part of

(n.) a weak point, failing, minor flaw

(v.) to do without, abstain from, give up

(adj.) full of or loaded with; accompanied by

SYN: charged with

ANT: devoid of, lacking, deficient in

(v.) to toughen, harden; to render used to something by long subjection or exposure

SYN: accustom, acclimate

(adj.) emitting or reflecting light, glowing; illuminating

SYN: radiant, bright, refulgent, lustrous

ANT: dark, opaque, dim, murky

(adj.) marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons

SYN: fawning, serviile, sycophantic, mealymouthed

ANT: assertive, bumptious, overbearing, candid, frank, independent

(adj,) blunt, not coming to a point; slow or dull in understanding; measuring between 90 degrees and 180 degrees; not causing a sharp impression

SYN: stupid, dumb, thick, mild, dull-witted

ANT: acute, perceptive, quick-witted

(v.) to swing back and forth with a steady rhythm; to fluctuate or waver

(adj.) regretful for one's sins or mistakes; (n.) one who is sorry for wrongdoing

(adj.) having the nature of a command that leaves no opportunity for debate, denial, or refusal; offensively self-assured, dictatorial; determined, resolute

(v.) to snub; to repel, drive away; (n.) a curt rejection, a check

(v.) to engage in reconnaissance; to make a preliminary inspection

(n.) a slaughterhouse; a place of mass bloodshed; a state of complete disorder and confusion, mess

(adj.) occuring at irregular intervals, having no set plan or order

SYN: distrustfully, suspiciously, skeptically

SYN: intermittent, spasmodic

ANT: constant, steady, continuous, uninterrupted

SYN: scout

SYN: spurn, repulse, reject; setback

ANT: accept, welcome

SYN: high-handed, unconditional

ANT: irresolute, tentative, mild, unassuming

SYN: remorseful, regretful, rueful, sorry

ANT: unrepentant, remoreseless

SYN: vibrate, vacillate

SYN: stupid, dumb, thick, mild, dull-witted

ANT: acute, perceptive, quick-witted

SYN: fawning, serviile, sycophantic, mealymouthed

ANT: assertive, bumptious, overbearing, candid, frank, independent

SYN: radiant, bright, refulgent, lustrous

ANT: dark, opaque, dim, murky

SYN: accustom, acclimate

SYN: charged with

ANT: devoid of, lacking, deficient in

SYN: refrain from, renounce

ANT: indulge in, partake of

SYN: Shortcoming, defect, quirk

ANT: forte, virtue

SYN: fraud, mountebank

SYN: Nitpick, quibble

SYN: benevolent, salutary, salubrious, harmless

ANT: malevolent, deleterious

SYN: thin out, dilute, water down

ANT: thicken, strengthen, bolster

Abraham Lincoln's sensitive stepmother had a benign influence on the lonely boy you had lost his mother.

After making sure the wound was clean, the doctor took steps to attenuate the victim's pain.

Again and again, Napoleon was able to decimate the armies of his enemies and lead his men to further victories.

Backbiting is on human foible not likely to be eradicated.

Even with the most advanced equipment, expeditions to the top of Mt. Everest are still fraught with danger.

I suggest you do not cavil over small things but instead focus on what is important.

Infantry officers often ask for volunteers to reconnoiter the terrain ahead before ordering their soldiers to advance.

Jane Austen ridiculed characters who were obsequious to the aristocracy but condescending to theri social inferiors.

One of the best, if not the easiest, ways to lose weight is to forgo dessert.

The board members resented the director's peremptory tone of voice.

The burlars made a complete shambles of the apartment in their search for money and jewelry.

The English teacher looked askance at the suggestion that students read compendiums of Dicken's novels.

The Inuit have become inure to the hardships of hte long Arctice winters through years of expereince.

The lieutenant was too obtuse to see the danger and led his company right into the hands of the enemy.

The old man rebuff his neighbors by refusing all offers of friendship.

Her rebuff of my invitation was quite rude.

The reporter exposed the real estate agent as a charlatan who routinely deceived her customers.

The soldiers heard sporadic gunfire from the other side of the river.

The terrified narrator in Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum" watches the dreaded instrument oscillate as it slowly moves toward him.

The thief was sincerely penitent.

In the Middle Ages, penitent often confessed their sins publicly and were publicly punished.

Walking under theat luminous night sky induced in me weighty thoughts not often pondered.