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Vocabulary Workshop
Vocabulary Workshop Unit 8 Level E
Term | Definition |
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animosity | strong dislike; bitter hostility |
apathy | a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest |
apprehensive | fearful or anxious, especially about the future |
commend | to praise |
compatible | able to get along or work well together |
condolence | an expression of sympathy |
consecrate | to make sacred, hallow |
decrepit | old and feeble |
deride | to ridicule, laugh at |
ingenuous | innocent,simple;frank |
multifarious | having great variety;numerous and diverse |
obsolete | out-of-date |
omnivorous | eating every kind of food |
parsimonious | stingy,miserly;meager |
quandary | a state of perplexity |
recalcitrant | stubbornly disobedient,resisting authority |
reprisal | an injury done in return for injury |
revel | to take great pleasure in |
stultify | to make ineffective or useless,cripple;to have a dulling effect on |
suave | smoothly agreeable or polite |