Verbal Advantage-Level 8

Front 1

Define Palliate and name 2 synonyms and 2 antonyms.

Back 1

To lessen the severity of, gloss over, make something seem less serious or severe. Synonyms: soften, diminish, mitigate, and extenuate. Antonyms: worsen, intensify, aggravate, and exacerbate.

Front 2

Define Wizened.

Back 2

Dried up, shriveled, witherd, shrunken and wrinkled.

Front 3

Define Captious anf name 2 synonyms.

Back 3

Faultfinding, quick to point out faults or raise trivial objections. Synonyms: carping, quibbling, caviling, censorious, and querlous.

Front 4

Define Emendation.

Back 4

Correction, alteration, change made to correct or improve in a piece of writing.

Front 5

Define Truculent and name 2 synonyms and 4 antoyms.

Back 5

Fierce, ferocious, especially in a brutal, bullying, threatening, or aggressively defiant way. Synonyms: pugnacious, belligerent, malevolent, rapacious, feral. Antonyms: humane, merciful, compassionate, benevolent,clement, timid, demure, diffident, apprehensive, and timorous.

Front 6

Define Expurgate and name 1 synonym.

Back 6

Cleanse by removing offensive or objectionable content. Synonyms: censor, purge, an bowdlerize.

Front 7

Define Reprobate and name 3 synonyms and 3 antonyms.

Back 7

Very bad, wicked and corrupt, morally abandoned, lacking all sense of decency and duty. Synonyms: unprincipled, shameless, base, base, vile, degenerate, depraved, irredeemable, and incorrigible. Antonyms: virtuous, pure, righteous, honorable, chaste, unsulied, and exemplary.

Front 8

Define Spurious and name 4 synonyms and 2 antonyms.

Back 8

False, counterfeit, artificial. Synonyms: sham, bogus, phony, fictitious, fabricated, fraudulent, illusory, apocryphal, and supposititious. Antonyms: genuine, authentic, valid, and bona fide.

Front 9

Define Volition.

Back 9

Will, choice, decision, determination.

Front 10

Define Interpolate.

Back 10

To insert, introduce; especially in a piece of writing or conversation.