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