Unit 1

• antidote – medicine used against a poison or a disease
• ambidextrous – able to use the left hand or the right equally well
• gerontocracy – government ruled by old people
• braggart – boastful
• entice – attract, lure
• connote – suggest or imply in addition to the precise, literal meaninig
• drowsiness – feeling sleepy
• disrobe – undress
• shunned – avoided, kept away from
• anguish – severe suffering

Unit 2

• offhand – without preparation or forethought
• loll – rest to sit or stand in a lazy way, hang (dog’s tongue)
• somersault – rolling backward or forward movement
• inquest – legal or judicial inquiry
• surcharge – additional load/charge
• acclaimed – welcomed with shouts and approval
• embezzle – use in a wrong way for one’s own benefit
• salvage – the saving of property from loss
• dangle – hand or swing loosely
• yarn – spun thread used for knitting

Unit 3

• livid – furiously angry, enraged
• sawdust – tiny bits of wood
• dullard – a stupid, insensitive person
• succumb – yield, die
• sluggard – lazy, slow-moving person
• ingest – take in by swallowing
• clot – a thick mass of coagulated liquid, especially blood, or of material stuck together
• cryptic – secret with a hidden meaning
• gallant – brave
• gait – a person’s manner of walking

Unit 4

• chisel – steel tool for shaping materials
• dote – be extremely and uncritically fond of
• constrict – make narrower
• ossified – turned to bone
• tonic – giving a feeling of vigor or well-being
• presentiment – an intuitive feeling about the future
• ail – to cause pain, uneasiness
• limp – lacking strength
• arcane – understood by very few
• mite – a very small amount

Unit 5

• edify – instruct
• recuperate – become strong after illness
• yeoman – a man holding and cultivating a small landed estate
• writ – written order
• dislodge – move force from the place occupied
• lampoon – publicly mock or ridicule
• patron – regular customer person who gives support
• cordial – warm and sincere
• retrograde – receding
• unscathed – unharmed

Unit 6

• knit – cause to unite
• jabber – talk excitedly
• treacherous – not to be trusted, perfidious
• stride – walk with long steps
• resuscitation – coming back to consciousness
• concur – agree in opinion
• woo – try to win
• pilferer – to steal, especially in small quantities
• skit – short piece of humorous writing
• hapless – unlucky

Unit 7

• fawn – to seek favor
• wince – show bodily or mental pain
• irate – angry
• alcove – partially enclosed place
• cogent
• disenchant
• sycophant
• despondency
• elation
• glut

Unit 8

• pecuniary
• prolix
• distraught
• debilitate
• exonerate
• epithet
• backwater
• exagitate
• centurion
• inerrancy
• pilloried
• calumiated
• hoodwink
• reconnoiter

Unit 9

• tact
• decry
• gratification
• accession
• umbrage
• requisition
• compendium
• quotidian
• mellifluos
• impugn
• parried
• defalcated
• nebulous
• rapacious
• obstreperous

Unit 10

• clandestine
• philanderer
• strategems
• peruse
• temporal
• feckless
• resplendent
• profiteering
• sanctimoniousgermane
• rancor
• camaraderie
• effusive

Unit 11

• cogency
• appraisal
• adumbration
• tenure
• quixotic
• albumen
• nigh
• repudiate
• abnegate
• check