EXAM SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS
REVISE
slick - ANSWER-smooth and glossy; sleek (resbaladizo, aceitoso, mancha)
dearth - ANSWER-a scarcity or lack of something (falta, ausencia, escasez)
fractious - ANSWER-grumpy, bad-tempered, irascible, irritable, crotchety, grouchy,
cantankerous (malhumorado, enojadizo)
stealthy - ANSWER-furtive, secretive, secret, surreptitious, sneaking, sly,
clandestine, covert (cauteloso, clandestino)
spurious - ANSWER-bogus, fake, false, counterfeit (falso)
not rue - ANSWER-false (no es verdad)
deprecate - ANSWER-disapprove, reject, censure (desaprobar, rechazar, censurar )
asunder - ANSWER-apart, up, in two, to pieces, to shreds, to bits (en pedazos,
dividido, separado)
berate - ANSWER-criticize (criticar)
pusillanimous - ANSWER-timid, timorous, cowardly, fearful, faint-hearted, lily-livered
(timido
temerity - ANSWER-audacity (temerario)
acrimony - ANSWER-bitter, bitterness, anger, rancor, resentment, ill feeling, ill will,
bad blood, animosity (hostilidad, amargura)
equable - ANSWER-even-tempered, calm, composed, collected, self-possessed,
relaxed, easygoing (ecuánime)
abysmal - ANSWER-very bad, dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, atrocious,
disgraceful, deplorable (abismal, abismatico, pesimo)
ancillary - ANSWER-assistant, auxiliary (secundario, auxiliar)
specious - ANSWER-superficially plausible, but actually wrong (engañoso)
apocryphal - ANSWER-not genuine fictitious, made-up, untrue, fabricated, false,
(ficticio)