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Vocabulary Work 2
Test-Need to know part of speech
Question | Answer |
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Adjacent | Adj. near, next to |
Barren | Adj. not productive, bare |
Disrupt | V. To break up/disturb |
Dynasty | N. A powerful family or group of rulers that maintains its position or power for some time |
Germinate | V. To begin to grow, come into being |
Hurtle | V. To rush violently |
Insinuate | V. To suggest or hint slyly |
Interrogate | V. To ask questions/examine by questioning |
Renovate | V. To repair, restore, make new again |
Résumé | N. A brief summary of ones qualifications for a job |
Trivial | Adj. not important, minor, commonplace |
Vicious | Adj. evil, bad, spiteful |
Available | (adj.) ready for use, at hand |
Cater | (v.) to satisfy the needs of, try to make things easy and pleasant |
Customary | (adj.) usual, expected, routine |
Dissuade | (v.) not to take a particular course of action |
Entrepreneur | (n.) a person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business |
Hazard | (n.) risk, peril; (v.) to expose to danger or harm; to gamble |
Hinder | (v.) to delay; to stop or prevent from happening |
Homicide | (n.) the killing of one person by another |
Indifference | (n.) a lack of interest or concern |
Plague | (n.) an easily spread disease causing a large number of deaths; a widespread evil; |
Transparent | (adj.) allowing light to pass through; easily recognized or understood; easily seen through or detected |
Mutual | (adj.) shared, felt or shown equally by two or more |
Pelt | (v.) to throw a stream of things |