Vocab Quiz #22

Aggregate (n.) (v. aggregate; adv. aggregately)

Total; formed by adding together two or more amounts

Example: The campus libraries contain an aggregate of one million books.

Synonyms: collective, mass, sum, summation, totality, whole

Anomaly(n.) (adj. anomalous)

Irregularity; something unusual or unexpected

Example: Maggie, a brunette with dark eyes, felt like an anomaly in her family of blue-eyed blonds.

Synonyms: aberration, abnormality, exception, oddity, oddment, rarity, variance

Compile (v.) (n. compilation)

Assemble; gather

Example: At the end of the movie was a compilation of bloopers.

Synonyms: accumulate, anthologize, collect

Hierarchy(n.) (adj. hierarchical)

Arrangement by rank or standing

Example: When the Princess was crowned Queen, she moved to the top of the royal hierarchy.

Synonyms: echelons, pecking order, ranking

Obstinate (adj.) (n. obstinateness, obstinacy; adv. obstinately)

Stubborn; hard to control or treat

Example: Donkeys are characterized by their obstinacy.

Synonyms: adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hardened, hardheaded, hard-nosed, headstrong, immovable,
implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious,
perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting,
unyielding, willful

Scrutinize (v.) (n. scrutinizer)

Examine closely and critically

Example: The clerk scrutinized the $100 dollar bill to make sure it was real.
Synonyms: analyze, audit, dissect, inspect, overlook, oversee, review, scan, survey