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Word List

despicable

felony

grimace

indelible

indulge

malign

matriarch

porter

quirk

vignette

Definitions

despicable (d

l) adjective
1.  Worthy only of being despised and rejected.
2.  Morally reprehensible.   "would do something as despicable as murder"

Synonyms:	contemptible, ugly, shabby, low
Antonyms:	praiseworthy, admirable, laudable

felony (f

) noun A serious crime punishable by death or incarceration.

grimace (gr

s) noun,verb
1.  A contorted facial expression.   "she made a grimace at the prospect"
2.  Contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state.   "He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do"

indelible (

l) adjective Cannot be removed, washed away or erased. "an indelible stain"

Antonyms:

delible, mutable, evanescent, transient

indulge (

lj) verb
1.  Give free rein to.   "The writer indulged in metaphorical language"
2.  Yield (to); give satisfaction to.
3.  Enjoy to excess.

Synonyms:	baby, welter, satisfy, appease, bask, gratify, humor
Antonym:	thwart

malign (m

n) verb,adjective
1.  Speak unfavorably about.
2.  Evil or harmful in nature or influence.   "prompted by malign motives" "believed in witches and malign spirits" "gave him a malign look" "a malign lesion"

Rhymes:	brine, dine, line, mine, nine, pine, shine, shrine, spine, stein, twine, vine, whine, wine, benign, combine, decline, define, design, divine, incline, resign
Antonyms:	benign,

matriarch (m

rk) noun An old female who is the head of her family and descendants.

Rhyme:

patriarch

quirk   (kwūrk) noun,verb
1.  A strange attitude or habit.
2.  Twist or curve abruptly.   "She quirked her head in a peculiar way"

Rhymes:

clerk, lurk, smirk, work

vignette (v

t) noun
1.  A brief literary description.
2.  A photograph whose edges shade off gradually.
3.  A small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books).

Rhymes:

bet, debt, jet, let, met, pet, set, sweat, threat, wet, whet, yet, abet, beset, cassette, cornet, duet, forget