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Wordly Wize Chapter 13

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abstain
Part of Speech: verb Definition: hold back from doing Synonyms: abjure, abnegate, avoid, cease, constrain, curb, decline, deny oneself, do without, eschew, evade, fast, fence-sit, forbear, forgo, give the go by, give up, go on the wagon, keep from, pass, pass up, quit, refrain, refuse, renounce, shun, sit on one's hands, sit on the fence, sit out, spurn, starve, stop, take the cure, take the pledge, withhold
aggravate
Part of Speech: verb Definition: annoy Synonyms: be at, be on the back of, bother, bug, bum*, dog, drive up the wall, exasperate, gall, get, get on one's nerves, get to, give a hard time, grate, hack, irk, irritate, nag, needle, nettle, peeve, pester, pick on, pique, provoke, tease, vex, wig Antonyms: appease, gladden, make happy, mollify, soften
avalanche
Part of Speech:noun Definition: falling large mass; sudden rush of large quantity Synonyms: barrage, deluge, flood, inundation, landslide, landslip, snowslide, torrent
collaborate
Part of Speech: verb Definition: work together Synonyms: be in cahoots, coact, cofunction, collude, come together, concert, concur, conspire, cooperate, coproduce, do business with, get together, glue oneself to, go partners, hook on, hook up, interface, join forces, join together, join up with, participate, team up, throw in together, throw in with, tie in, work with Antonyms: disagree, divorce, part
creditor
Part Of Speech: Noun Definition: a person or firm to whom money is due
exaggerate
Part of Speech: verb Definition: overstate, embellish Synonyms: amplify, blow out of proportion, boast, boost, brag, build up, caricature, color, cook up, corrupt, distort, embroider, emphasize, enlarge, exalt, expand, fabricate, falsify, fudge, go to extremes, heighten, hike, hyperbolize, inflate, intensify, lay it on thick, lie, loud talk, magnify, make too much of, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, overdo, overdraw, overemphasize, overestimate, pad, pretty up, puff, put on, pyramid, romance, romanticize, scam, stretch, up* Antonyms: depreciate, minimize, play down, reduce, understate
expose
Part of Speech:noun Definition: disclosure Synonyms:betrayal, confession, construction, divulgence, exegesis, explanation, explication, exposal, exposition, exposure, interpretation, revelation, truth, uncovering Antonyms: secret, silence
fateful
Part of Speech: adjective Definition: significant Synonyms: acute, apocalyptic, conclusive, critical, crucial, decisive, determinative, direful, doomful, eventful, important, inauspicious, momentous, ominous, portentous, resultful Antonyms:insignificant, unimportant
fume
Part of Speech: verb Definition: get very upset about Synonyms:anger, blow up, boil, bristle, burn, chafe, chomp at the bit, get hot, get steamed up, rage, rant, rave, seethe, smoke*, storm* Antonyms:be calm, be happy
impasse
Part of Speech: noun Definition: stalemate Synonyms: Catch-22, box*, cessation, corner*, cul-de-sac, dead end, deadlock, dilemma, fix, gridlock, jam, mire*, morass, pause, pickle, plight, predicament, quandary, rest, scrape*, standoff, standstill Antonyms: agreement, breakthrough
mite
Part of Speech: noun Definition: small insect Synonyms: acarid, atom, bit, bug, insect, iota, minim, minute, molecule, mote, nit, parasite, particle, smidgen, speck, tick
passage
Part of Speech: noun Definition: path for travel Synonyms: access, alley, alleyway, avenue, channel, corridor, course, doorway, entrance, entrance hall, exit, gap, hall, hallway, lane, line, lobby, opening, pathway, road, route, shaft, subway, thoroughfare, tunnel, vestibule, way Antonyms: blockage, stop
premonition
Part of Speech: noun Definition: feeling that an event is about to occur Synonyms:apprehension, apprehensiveness, feeling, feeling in bones, foreboding, forewarning, funny feeling, handwriting on wall, hunch, idea, intuition, misgiving, omen, portent, prenotion, presage, presentiment, sign, sinking feeling, suspicion, vibes, vibrations, warning, wind change, winds, winds of change, worriment
shrew
Part of Speech: noun Definition: mean lady Synonyms: amazon, backbiter, battle-ax, biddy, bitch, calumniator, carper, detractor, dragon, fire-eater, fishwife, fury, harpy, harridan, hell cat, hellion, hussy, madcap, muckraker, nag, ogress, old biddy, porcupine, reviler, scold, she-devil, she-wolf, siren, spitfire, termagant, tigress, virago, vituperator, vixen, wench
toady
Part of Speech: noun Definition: sycophant Synonyms: adulator, apple polisher, ass-kisser, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlicker, brownnoser, doormat, doter, fan, fawner, flatterer, flunky, groupie, hanger-on, kiss-up, lackey, minion, teacher's pet, yes-person
unearthly
Part of Speech: adjective Definition: supernatural; very strange Synonyms: abnormal, absurd, appalling, demoniac, devilish, eerie, ethereal, extraordinary, fiendish, frightening, funereal, ghastly, ghostly, ghoulish, hair-raising, haunted, heavenly, hyperphysical, miraculous, nightmarish, not of this world, phantom, preternatural, ridiculous, scary, sepulchral, spectral, spooky*, sublime, superhuman, uncanny, ungodly, unholy, unreasonable, weird Antonyms: earthly, natural, physical

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