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Vocabulary-Unit 3. Advocate. (n) One who supports or defends a cause or proposal; (v) To support, favor An advocate of the Equal Rights Amendment - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Vocabulary-Unit 3
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(n) One who supports or defends a cause or proposal;
(v) To support, favor An advocate of the Equal Rights
Amendment apostle, attorney, backer, campaigner,
champion, counsel, defender, exponent, expounder, lawyer, pleader, promoter, proponent, proposer, speaker, spokesperson, supporter, upholder
Advocate
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(adj) Full of life, lively, alive In an animated mood for the holiday
activate, arouse, cheer, embolden, encourage, energize, enliven, exalt, excite, fire, gladden, hearten, impel, incite, inform, inspire, inspirit, instigate, invigorate, kindle, liven, make alive, move, quicken, revive, revivify, rouse, spark, spur, stimulate, stir, urge, vitalize, vivify
Animated
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(n) Family of young animals, especially birds; any group having the same nature and origin
(v) To think over in a worried, unhappy way Useless to brood over our misfortunes
begats, breed, chicks, clutch, descendants, family, flock, hatch, infants, issue, litter, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, young
Brood
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(v) To reach a high point of development Suddenly culminate in disaster
cap, climax, close, come to a head, conclude, crown, end, end up, finish, go over the mountain, go the route, rise to crescendo, round off, shoot one's wad, terminate, top off, wind up
Culminate
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(adv) Thoroughly, with directness (adj) Absolute, complete, frank, blunt Accused me of a downright lie
blatant, blunt, categorical, certain, clear, complete, damned, explicit, flat, gross, honest, indubitable, open, out-and-out, outright, plain, positive, simple, sincere, straight, straightforward, sure, thoroughgoing, total, undisguised, unequivocal, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestionable, utter, whole
Downright
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(n) loafer, idler (v) to make a buzzing or humming sound; to
speak in a dull tone of voice A speaker who drones on and on and on
idler, leech, loafer, lounger, parasite, slug, sluggard, sponger, bombinate, buzz, chant, drawl, hum, intone, nasalize, purr, sound, strum, thrum, vibrate, whirr
Drone
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(v) to drive out (n) something used to drive or urge on Goad them into action.
catalyst, compulsion, desire, drive, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incitation, incitement, irritation, lash, lust, motivation, passion, pressure, prod, spur, urge, whip, zeal, animate, annoy, arouse, bully, coerce, drive, encourage, excite, exhort, fire up, force, goose, harass, hound, impel, inspirit, instigate, irritate, key up, lash, move, needle, press, prick*, prod, prompt, propel, provoke, push, put up to, rowel, sic, sound, spark*, spur, stimulate, sting*, tease, thrust, trigger, turn on, urge, whip*, work up, worry
Goad
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(v) To give in to a wish or desire, give oneself up to
One must not indulge myself in sweets
allow, baby, cater, coddle, cosset, delight, entertain, favor, foster, give in, give rein to, go along, go easy on, gratify, humor, mollycoddle, nourish, oblige, pamper, pander, pet, please, regale, satiate, satisfy, spoil, spoil rotten, take care of, tickle, yield
Indulge
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(n) one of the materials in a mixture or formula
Gather together the ingredients for the recipe
additive, constituent, element, factor, fixing, fundamental, innards, integral, integrant, making, part, part and parcel, piece
Ingredient
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(adj) Able to read and write; showing good educational background, especially in a literary sense
A highly literate young woman
cultivated, cultured, educated, instructed, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, scholarly, schooled
Literate
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(v) To appear dimly, come into view (n) Machine for weaving
Fear the many dangers that loom in the future
approach, await, be at hand, be coming, be forthcoming, be imminent, be in the cards, be in the wind, be near, become visible, break through, brew, bulk, come forth, come into view, come on, come on the scene, dawn, dominate, emanate, emerge, figure, gather, hang over, hover, impend, impress, issue, lower, make up, menace, mount, near, overhang, overshadow, overtop, portend, rear, rise, seem huge, seem large, show, soar, stand out, take shape, threaten, top, tower
Loom
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(n) Quality of shining or giving off light, brightness, glitter, or brilliance (as of one’s reputation)
The luster of her fame
afterglow, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, burnish, candescence, dazzle, effulgence, glaze, gleam, glint, glitter, glow, incandescence, iridescence, lambency, luminousness, opalescence, polish, radiance, refulgence, resplendence, sheen, shimmer, sparkle
Luster
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(adj) Mixed, of different subjects or kinds A collection of miscellaneous items
assorted, confused, conglomerate, different, disordered, disparate, divergent, divers, diverse, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, jumbled, many, mingled, mixed, motley, muddled, multifarious, multiform, odd, promiscuous, scattered, scrambled, sundry, unmatched, unsorted, varied, variegated
Miscellaneous
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(n) Public speech for a formal occasion Delivered an oration at the ceremony
address, chalk talk, declamation, discourse, harangue, homily, lecture, pep talk, pitch*, sermon, soapbox, spiel*
Oration
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(adj) Cross, complaining, irritable Became peevish when asked to do her work
acrimonious, angry, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, carping, caviling, childish, churlish, complaining, crabbed, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety, crusty, cussed, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, fretting, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumpy, huffy, ill-natured, mean, morose, obstinate, ogre, ornery, out-of-sorts, pertinacious, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappy, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tetchy, touchy, ugly, waspish, waspy, whining
Peevish
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(v)To boil or foam; to be excited or disturbed
Seethe with excitement as the game began
be furious, be incensed, be livid, be mad, be on the warpath, blow one's stack, blow up, boil, breathe fire, bristle, burn, ferment, flare, flip, foam, foam at mouth, froth, fume, hit the ceiling, rage, see red, simmer, smolder, spark, stew, storm
Seethe
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(v) To burn slightly (n) A burn at the ends or edges Accidentally singer her jacket with a lighter
blacken, blaze, brand, brown, cauterize, char, cook, flame, ignite, incinerate, parch, scald, scorch, sear, toast, torch
Singe
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(adj) Unusual. Only one of its kind Her unique talents as an entertainer
different, exclusive, individual, lone, one, one and only, onliest, only, particular, rare, separate, single, solitary, solo, sui generis, uncommon, unexampled
Unique
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(adj) Standing straight; good, honest An upright member of the community
cocked, end on, end up, erect, on end, perpendicular, plumb, raised, sheer, stand-up, standing, steep, straight, upended, upstanding, upward, vertical
Upright
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(v) To have a strong and earnest desire Yearn to see his old friends once again
ache, be desirous of, be eager for, be passionate, chafe, covet, crave, dream, hanker, have a crush on, have a yen for, hunger, itch, languish, long, lust, pine, set one's heart on, thirst, want, wish for
Yearn