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Enhancing Vocabulary: Mastering Synonyms & Word Formation

Elevate your vocabulary skills by exploring synonyms and mastering word formation using convoluted and insuperable terms. Learn to endorse your writing with precision and maximize your language potential.

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Enhancing Vocabulary: Mastering Synonyms & Word Formation

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  1. Vocabulary 4 Using Synonyms

  2. Convoluted • Having many overlapping folds or paths; complicated; complex; involved

  3. Endorse • Give approval or support to; favor

  4. Enhance • Heighten, intensify; increase, raise

  5. Evade • Escape or avoid by cleverness; outwit, avoid

  6. Giddy • Lighthearted; silly; foolish; deliriously happy

  7. Impede • Interfere with; slow the progress of; block

  8. Innocuous • Harmless; inoffensive

  9. Insuperable • Impossible to overcome; invincible, unbeatable

  10. Interminable • Having or seeming to have no end; infinite, perpetual

  11. Wary • Watchful, cautious; doubtful, suspecting

  12. Vocabulary 5 The Prefix re-

  13. Recourse • Turning to someone or something for help or protection; a turning to something

  14. Recuperate • To recover health or strength; become healthy again

  15. Refute • To prove false by argument; argue back

  16. Rejuvenated • Made youthful or new again; made young again

  17. Remorse • Deep pain caused by guilt for past wrongdoing; repeated gnawing in one’s gut

  18. Renowned • Widely known; widely honored or famous

  19. Repel • To keep away; fight back; force back

  20. Resentment • Ill will felt as a result of a perceived insult or injury; rancor directed at a slight

  21. Resigned • Deliberately giving up; accepting; to renounce or relinquish; giving up

  22. Retract • To take back; draw back; pull back

  23. Vocabulary 6 The Suffix -ize

  24. Centralize • Draw toward a center; bring under central control; to become central

  25. Economize • Become careful in spending money; reduce spending or avoid waste

  26. Equalize • Make equal

  27. Idealize • Become ideal or perfect; to regard as excellent or perfect

  28. Immobilize • Make unmovable or fix the position of; make unable to move

  29. Materialize • Become substantial or real; take on concrete form; appear suddenly

  30. Maximize • Cause to become the greatest; increase or make as great as possible

  31. Mesmerize • Hypnotize; fascinate

  32. Rationalize • Treat with reason; make something understandable; to come up with believable but untrue reasons for one’s behavior

  33. Scrutinize • Treat with close examination; examine or observe carefully

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