Vocabulary Energizers Ii Ch 5

Front 1

venerate

Back 1

regard with great respect
Venus the goddess mother of venerable old men
a sculpture turned real
respect, honor, admire, worship, revere

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sadistic

Back 2

getting pleasure from hurting others
Marquis de Sade tortured his sexual victims
brutal, vicious, perversely cruel

Front 3

malapropism

Back 3

rediculous or humorous misuse of words
Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals when she misuses many words.
misusage, verbal blunder, spoonderism

Front 4

pragmatic

Back 4

practical
James brothers developed the philosophy of pragmatism
realistic, sensible, workable, utilitarian

Front 5

disparage

Back 5

refer to something as having little importance; speak slightingly of
degrade socially by marrying beneath one's rank
degrade, minimize, downgrade, belittle

Front 6

vegetate

Back 6

lead a dull, inactive, useless life
vegetables became stale if left too long
be idle, sluggish, stagnate

Front 7

adamant

Back 7

unyielding, inflexible, definite
firm, rigid, immovable, fixed, unchangeable, obdurate

Front 8

conjugal

Back 8

of marriage; pertaining ot the relationshiop between husband and wife

married, matrimonial, wedded, martial

Front 9

abominable

Back 9

utterly disgusting or hateful
Greeks and Romans and the word omen; abominate= turn away omens
revolting, horrible, awful, loathsome

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ominous

Back 10

threatening; suggestive of future evil
Greeks and Romans and the word omen; omens were both good and bad, but ominous was negative
unfavorable, unlucky, sinster, meanacing, illomened, foreboding