《Verbal Advantage Level 8》.doc

VERBAL ADVANTAGE SUCCESS EDITION ADVANCED Level VIII By Charles Harrington Elster Verbal Advantage Level Eight With Pronunciations, Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Information Listed in Order of Presentation, by Level and Number. The abbreviation N.B. stands for the Latin nota bene and means note well, take good note of. 1. ALACRITY (uh-LAK-ri-tee) Cheerful readiness, eagerness, or promptness in action or movement: The duty of the firefighter is to answer every alarm with alacritv. Synonyms: quickness, liveliness, briskness, enthusiasm, animation, zeal, celerity (suh- LER-i-tee). N.B. This discussion distinguishes the words alacrity and celerity. 2. OBVIATE (AHB-vee-ayt) To prevent, make unnecessary, meet and dispose of, clear out of the way. Etymology and related word: Latin obviare, to prevent, from obvius, in the way, the source also of obvious, which means literally lying in the way. 3. EMOLUMENT (i-MAHL-yuh-ment) Wages, salary, payment received for work. Synonyms: compensation, recompense, remuneration (Level 6, Word 30). Etymology and usage: Latin emolumentum, the fee a miller received for grinding grain, from emolere, to grind out. By derivation, emolument means that which is ground out by ones exertion. In the modern world, emolument has come to mean wages, pay, compensation for ones labor. 1 Verbal Advantage Level Eight 4. INTRANSIGENT (in-TRAN-si-jint) Uncompromising, refusing to come to an agreement, unwilling to modify ones position or give ground. Synonyms: unreconcilable, unyielding, diehard, hidebound, obstinate (Level 1, Word 34), resolute (Level 1, Word 26), tenacious, recalcitrant, intractable, refractory (Level 6, Word 42), obdurate. Antonyms: compromising, flexible, obliging, submissive, compliant, malleable (Level 2, Word 29), docile (Level 7, Word 28), tractable, deferential, acquiescent, complaisant (kumPLAY-zint). Etymology: Intransigent combines the privative prefix in-, meaning not, with the Latin verb transigere, to come to a settle