Unit One ❯ Chapter 1: Joseph Palmer

Matching Words with Definitions

Differing from what is customary; odd

• Our dog, Rufus, was absolved of stealing Mom's glasses when they were found safe in her purse.
• Accused of taking bribes, the mayor said, “In the end, I’ll clear my name and be absolved of any wrongdoing.”

• Ron is adamant about not changing plans. He insists we should still camp out even though the weather report now says it will be cold and rainy.
• Adamant in his support of gun control, Senator Keen won’t give in to pressure from powerful opponents.

• My amiable dog greets both strangers and old friends with a happy yip and energetic tail-wagging.
• At first, our history teacher doesn’t seem very friendly, but once you get to know her, she shows her amiable side.

• Jerry is almost totally amoral. He cares only about making money and having fun and couldn’t care less about right or wrong.
• A former president of Uganda, Idi Amin, was truly amoral. He jailed, tortured, and killed innocent opponents without the slightest feeling of guilt.

• The animosity between fans of the soccer teams was so strong that fights broke out all over the stadium.
• The bad feelings between the two families go back so many generations that nobody remembers what originally caused the animosity.

• At the divorce hearing, the husband and wife were such bitter antagonists that it was hard to believe they had once loved each other.
• In the ring, the two boxers were antagonists, but in their private lives, they were good friends.

• Bruce is quite eccentric. For example, he lives in a circular house and rides to work on a motorcycle, in a three-piece suit.
• Florence Nightingale, the famous nursing reformer, had the eccentric habit of carrying a pet owl around in one of her pockets.

• My encounter with Malik in a Los Angeles supermarket surprised me, since I thought he still lived in Chicago.
• I dislike returning to my small hometown, where I am likely to have encounters with people who knew me as a troubled kid.

• To many, the epitome of cuteness is a furry, round-eyed puppy.
• The great ballplayer and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson was the epitome of both physical and moral strength.

• That vicious Hollywood reporter often maligns movie stars, forever damaging their public images.
• Stacy refuses to malign her ex-husband, even though he was the one who insisted on the divorce.