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Vocab Unit 10
Sadlier-oxford level D vocabulary workshop
word | definition |
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adept | thoroughly skilled; an expert |
aspire | to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend |
bleak | bare dreary, dismal |
chide | to blame; scold |
despicable | worthy of scorn, contemptible |
diminutive | SMALL, SMALLER THAN MOST OTHERS OF THE SAME TYPE |
emancipate | to free from slavery; to release or liberate |
erroneous | incorrect, containing mistakes |
exploit | to make use of , develop; to make improper use of for personal profit; a feat, deed |
extemporaneous | made or delivered on the spur of the moment |
impair | to make imperfect, damage, harm |
invincible | nonable to be defeated, unbeatable |
languid | dropping; without energy, sluggish |
mire | mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation; to get stuck |
obtrusive | forward; undesireably prominent; thrust out |
preamble | an introduction to a speech or piece of writing |
render | to cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially; to process, extract |
rugged | rough, irregular; severe, stern; strong; stormy |
skeptical | inclned to doubt; slow to accept something as true |
slipshod | untidy in dress, personal habits, etc.; careless, sloppy |