Word Wealth
Part III: unit 8
Distinctive Nouns
1. Amenity- a pleasing way or custom
2. Criterion- a basis or standard for judgment
3. Hyperbole- exaggeration for effect
4. Integrity- moral soundness, uprightness
5. Intuition- instinctive knowledge
6. Nonchalance- indifference, unconcern
7. Optimism- tendency to take the most hopeful view
8. Pertinacity- stubborn perseverance
9. Pessimism- tendency to expect the worst
10. Rapacity- violence or greed, eagerness for plunder
Precise Adjectives
11. Clandestine- secret, stealthy
12. Coherent- sticking together, connected
13. Compatible- capable of being harmonized
14. Concomitant- an attendant condition, varying at the same rate
15. Crucial- supremely important or decisive, severe
16. Deleterious- harmful to health, injurious
17. Impervious- impenetrable, unaffected by
18. Iridescent- glistening with colors, glittering
19. Peremptory- imperative, positive, dictatorial
20. Specious- fair-seeming, deceptive, plausible but not genuine
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