Vocabulary Level F
Unit 6
Part B
fetter
heinous
immutable
insurgent
megalomania
sinecure
surreptitious
transgress
transmute
vicarious
 Fetter- A chain or shackle placed on the
feet (often used in plural) anything that
confines or restrains; (v.) to chain or
shackle; to render helpless or impotent
 Synonyms: bond, restraint; (v.) bind,
hamper
Sentences
 The old phrase
“chain gang” refers to
prisoners made to
work, each joined to
the next by linked
fetters.
 It is said that good
inventors do not
fetter themselves
with conventional
thinking.
 Heinous- Very wicked, offensive, hateful
 Synonyms: evil, odious, abominable,
outrageous
Sentence
 A town so peaceful,
quiet, and lawabiding was bound to
be horrified by so
heinous a crime.
 Immutable- Not subject to change,
constant
 Synonyms: unchangeable, unalterable,
fixed, invariable
Sentence
 Scientists labored to
discover a set of
immutable laws of
the universe.
 Insurgent- One who rebels or rises
against authority; (adj.) rising in revolt,
refusing to accept authority; surging or
rushing in or on
 Synonyms: revolutionary, rebellious,
mutinous
Sentences
 George Washington
and his
contemporaries were
insurgent against
Britain.
 The army was
confident that they
could crush the
insurgent forces.
 Megalomania- A delusion marked by a
feeling of power, wealth, talent, etc., far
in excess of reality
 Synonyms: delusions of grandeur
Sentence
 Sudden fame and
admiration can make
people feel
unworthy-or it can
bring on feelings of
megalomania.
 Sinecure- A position requiring little or no
work; an easy job
 Synonyms: “no show” job, cushy job,
“plum”
Sentence
 The office of Vice
President of the
United States was
once considered little
more than a
sinecure.
 Surreptitious- Stealthy, secret, intended
to escape observation; made or
accomplished by fraud
 Synonyms: furtive, covert, clandestine,
concealed
Sentence
 The movie heroine
blushed when she
noticed the
surreptitious glances
of her admirer.
 The insurgents
behave
surreptitiously in
order to hide their
identity.
 Transgress- To go beyond a limit or
boundary; to sin, violate a law
 Synonyms: overstep, exceed, trespass,
err
Sentence
 The penitent citizens
promised to never
again transgress the
laws of the land.
 Transmute- To change from one nature,
substance, or form to another
 Synonyms: transform, convert, translate,
metamorphose
Sentence
 To transmute distrust
into friendship along
that war-torn border
will take more than
wise politicians and
just laws.
 Vicarious- Performed, suffered, or
otherwise experienced by one person in
place of another
 Synonyms: surrogate, substitute,
imagined, secondhand
Sentence
 In search of vicarious
excitement, we
watched movies of
action and
adventure.