Sadlier Oxford Vocab Workshop Level F Unit 7

(adj) severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor syn: forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned, subdued ant: mild, indulgent, luxurious, flamboyant

(adj) performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good syn: humanitarian, magnanimous, charitable ant: selfish, cruel, harmful, deleterious

(adj) pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse syn: corpselike, wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly ant: robust, portly, rosy, the picture of health

(v) to prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate syn: create, fashion, rustle up

(adj) coarse, unfeeling; stupid syn: crude, vulgar, tasteless, oafish, obtuse ant: refined, elegant, tasteful, polished, brilliant

(v) to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate syn: cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate ant: elevate, uplife, improve, enhance

(v) to commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute syn: profane, defile, violate ant: revere, honor, venerate, consecrate

(v) to confuse; to disturb the composure of syn: upset, rattle, ruffle, faze, perturb ant: relax, calm, put at ease

(adj) grand in an impressice or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated syn: majestic, bombastic, highfalutin ant: simple, modest, unaffected, humble

(adj) trifling, unimportant syn: trivial, negligible, petty, paltry ant: important, essectial, crucial, vital

(n) a breaking of a low or obligation syn: violation, transgression, breach, offense

(v) to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity syn: lessen, relieve, alleviate, diminish ant: aggravate, intensify, irrate, exacerbate

(v) to rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder (n) the act of looting; booty syn: (v) ravage, sack, loot (n) booty

(v) to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion syn: chatter, prattle, blab, blabber, palaver ant: come to the point, not waste words

(adj) very careful and exact, attentice to fine points of etiquette or propriety syn: precise, scrupulous, exacting, fussy, finicky ant: careless, negligent, lax, perfunctory