ID: B
Unit 6 Vocabulary Synonyms
Choose the word that is most nearly the same in meaning as each of the following
groups of words or expressions. Write the word on the line provided at the right.
1. exceptional, atypical, unusual, aberrant
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2. surrogate, substitute; imagined, secondhand
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3. to think up, devise, concoct, fabricate
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4. a rabble-rouser, firebrand
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5. to overstep, exceed, trespass; to err
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6. unchangeable, unalterable, fixed, invariable
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7. a bond, restraint; to bind, restrain, hamper
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8. to chastise, rebuke, censure, upbraid
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9. languor, world-weariness, listlessness
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10. an innuendo, slander, calumny, denigration
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11. curt, tactless, ungracious, rough
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12. to wheedle, inveigle, softsoap, sweet-talk
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13. a “no-show” job, cushy job, “plum”
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14. rebellious, mutinous; a revolutionary
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15. grotesque, fantastic, outlandish
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16. furtive, clandestine, covert, concealed
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17. evil, odious, abominable, outrageous
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18. delusions of grandeur
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19. to undeceive, enlighten, set straight
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20. to convert, translate, metamorphose
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