Vocabulary-Unit 3

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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