Vocabulary Workshop F Unit 5 Hard Parts

David (United States of America)
This has the hard words from the chapter, and it has hard synonyms and antonyms from the words of the chapter.
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  1. caveat
    a warning against certain acts
  2. doleful
    filled with or evoking sadness
  3. maxim
    a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
  4. dubious
    fraught with uncertainty or doubt
  5. scorn
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
  6. bane
    something causing misery or death
  7. boon
    something that is desirable, favorable, or beneficial
  8. dissolute
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  9. scathing
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  10. docile
    easily handled or managed
  11. vapid
    lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  12. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  13. purloin
    make off with belongings of others
  14. transient
    lasting a very short time
  15. fractious
    easily irritated or annoyed
  16. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  17. cumbersome
    difficult to handle or use, especially because of size or weight
  18. axiomatic
    evident without proof or argument
  19. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  20. unwieldy
    difficult to use or handle because of size or weight
  21. scourge
    something causing misery or death
  22. insipid
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  23. flout
    treat with contemptuous disregard
  24. soporific
    inducing sleep
  25. flog
    beat with a whip, rod, or cane
  26. enmesh
    entangle in or as if in a net
  27. tractable
    easily managed
  28. subjection
    the act of conquering
  29. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  30. pestilence
    any epidemic disease with a high death rate
  31. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  32. evanescent
    short-lived; tending to vanish or disappear
  33. blazon
    the official symbols of a family, state, etc.
  34. sepulchral
    suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
  35. pilfer
    make off with belongings of others
  36. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  37. salutary
    tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
  38. straitlaced
    exaggeratedly proper or morally strict
Created on Wed Dec 18 20:51:19 EST 2013 (updated Wed Dec 18 20:51:44 EST 2013)

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