Vocabulary Power Plus Book G

To those affected it is the arbitrary nature of the tax changes that has them rattled. In this sentence, arbitrary means

• broad in scope

• based on or subject to individual discretion or preference rather than law, reason, or fact

• very active

• poor enough to need help from others

persistent means

• stubbornly unyielding

• strange in an interesting or pleasing way

• being unjustly brought into disrepute

• lower than previously

incoherent means

• confused

• destructive

• dishonorable

• complaining

dexterity means

• exemption from punishment or loss

• a stable situation in which forces cancel one another

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• skill in physical action or cleverness

means

• cordial

• lovely

• to the point

• vague

flourish means to

• qualify

• prosper

• scatter

• hesitate

fray means

• frown

• forum

• favor

• fight

nullify means to

• ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer

• to make invalid

• lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime

• influence or control shrewdly or deviously

conspicuous means

• :

  dwindling

• continuous

• prosperous

• obvious

The opposite of conspicuous is

• illustrious

• obscure

• contagious

• legislative