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Wordmaster #3 Vocabulary
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Language - English
7th Grade
03/13/2015

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Term

Listless (list' lis) 

adjective

 

SYNONYMS:

ANTONYMS:

 

Definition

1) Having or showing no interest in what is going on, as because of illness, weariness, sadness, etc.

 

DERIVATIVES: listlessness, listlessly

 

Term

Rout (rout)

noun, intransitive verb

 

SYNONYMS: conquer

ANTONYMS:

Definition

1) A disorderly crowd; rabble

2) A disorderly fight, as of defeated troops

3) An overwhelming defeat

4) A group of people; company

 

1) To poke or rummage about

2) To expose to view

Term

Smidgen (smig' en)

noun

 

SYNONYMS:

ANTONYMS:

Definition
1) A small amount; a bit
Term

Sunder (sun' dęr)

transitive verb

 

SYNONYMS: 

ANTONYMS:

 

Definition

1) To break apart; seperate; split

 

DERIVATIVES: sunderable, sunderance, asunder

Term

Deplete (di plēt')

transitive verb

 

SYNONYMS: drain, exhaust, bankrupt, impoverish

ANTONYMS: full

Definition

1) To empty of a principal substance

2) To lessen markedly in quantity, content, power, or value

 

DERIVATIVES: depletion, depleted, depletable, depleting, depletive

Term

Charlatan (shär' le t'n)

noun

 

SYNONYMS: fake

ANTONYMS:

 

Definition

1) One who pretends to have extra knowledge or skill that s/he does not have at all

 

DERIVATIVES: charlantism, charlantry

Term

Morose (mę- 'rōs)

adjective

 

SYNONYMS: sullen, moody

ANTONYMS: energetic

Definition

1) Having a sullen and gloomy disposition

2) Marked by or expressive of gloom

 

DERIVATIVES: moroseness, morosely, morosity

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