Vocab Unit 3

(V) To assign or distribute in shares or portions

Syn: Apportion, parcel out, allocate

• Allot

• Amass

• Audacious

• Comply

(V) To bring together, collect, gather, especially for oneself; to come together, assemble

Syn: Pile up, garner

Ant: Scatter, dissipate, squander, waste

• Comply

• Devoid

• Elite

• Amass

(Adj) Bold, adventurous, recklessly daring

Syn: Enterprising, brave

Ant: Timid, cowardly

• Myriad

• Audacious

• Grapple

• Instigate

(V) To yield to a request or command

Syn: Consent, acquiesce

Ant: Reject, refuse, decline

• Allot

• Perturb

• Myriad

• Comply

DEVOID

Not having or using, lacking

Syn: Wanting, bereft

Ant: Full, abounding

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

INCAPACITATE

To deprive of strength or ability, to make legally ineligible

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

INSTIGATE

To urge on; to stir up, start, incite

Ant: Stop, quell, squelsh, quash

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

LONGEVITY

Long life, long duration, length of life

Ant: Shortness, transience

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Adverb

ELITE

(N) The choice part of a group of people or things

(Adj) Superior

• Syn: Cream of the crop, upper crust

  Ant: Rank and file, dregs of society

• Syn: Upset, agitate, anger

  Ant: Scatter, dissipate, squander

• Syn: Tackle, wrestle

  Ant: Become calm

• Syn: Length of life, longness

  Ant: Shortess, transience

GRAPPLE

(N) An iron hook used to grab and hold

(V) To come to grips with, wrestle or fight with

• Ant: Viewpoint, sense of proportion

• Syn: Innumerable, countless

  Ant: Few, scant, scatter

• Syn: Tackle, confront, struggle with

• Syn: Apportion, parcel out, allocate

  Ant: Delight, glidden, please