Vocabulary - Set 2

 Vocabulary - Set 2

ATTRIBUTE (verb): Assign -attributed his success to bard work.

Synonym: ascribe

(noun): An inherent quality -Generosity was his outstanding attribute.

AUTHENTIC: Genuine -proved to be an authentic document.

Synonyms: veritable, bona fide

Antonyms; apocryphal, counterfeit, spurious, bogus

BANTER: Good-natured teasing or ridicule-The two wits I exchanged banter, to the amusement of the audience.

Synonyms: raillery, chaff

BIASED: Prejudiced - misled by a biased point of view.

Synonyms: bigoted, arbitrary, partial, partisan

Antonyms: disinterested, equitable

BIZARRE: Queer; unusual in appearance- bizarre clothes, outlandish in the extreme.

Synonyms: odd, fantastic, grotesque, eccentric

BOG: A swamp - sank into the spongy bog.

Synonyms: morass, fen, quagmire, mire

CANDID (noun: CANDOR): Frank, outspoken; impartial a candid reply that could hardly be more forthright.

Synonyms: artless, ingenuous, unbiased

Antonyms: guileful, evasive

CHRONIC: Continuing a long time; habitual-a. chronic complaint, persisting for years.

Synonyms: persistent, unremitting, inveterate, incessant, constant

Antonyms: intermittent, sporadic, infrequent

CIVIL:

1. Of or having to do with citizens or the state - We I civil duties as well as civil liberties.

2. Polite, courteous - answered in a civil fashion.

Synonyms: respectful, gracious

COALITION (verb: COALESCE): Alliance; merging of various units into one unit – three parties forming a coalition to rule the country.

Synonyms: amalgamation, consolidation, fusion