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Vocabulary Work 10
Quiz-Need to know the part of speech
Question | Answer |
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Bellow | v. to make a sound similar to that of a bull, roar n. a loud, angry roar |
Beneficiary | n. one who benefits from something; a person who is left money or other property in a will or the like |
Botch | v. repair or patch poorly; make a mess of n. a hopelessly bungled job |
Clutter | v. to fill or cover in a disorderly way n. a state of disorder, mess |
Dilapidated | adj. falling apart or ruined, run-down |
Dismantle | v. to take apart; to strip of something |
Farce | n. a play filled with ridiculous or absurd happenings; broad or far-fetched humor; a ridiculous sham |
Futile | adj. not successful, failing to have any result; useless; unimportant, frivolous |
Grueling | adj. very tiring, calling for an extreme effort |
Hospitable | adj. offering friendly or generous treatment to guests; open to anything new or strange |
Lair | n. the home or den of a wild animal; any hideout |
Lavish | adj. overly generous, extravagant; abundant v. to spend or give freely or without limit |
Morbid | adj. in an unhealthy mental state, extremely gloomy; caused by or related to disease, unwholesome |
Notorious | adj. widely known because of bad conduct |
Pamper | v. to allow too many privileges, be too generous and easygoing toward |
Parasite | n. an organism that lives in or on another organism; one who lives off another person |
Shirk | v. to avoid or get out of doing work, neglect to a duty; to sneak, slink |
Surplus | n. an amount beyond what is required, excess adj. more than what is needed or expected |
Timidity | n. the state of being easily frightened |
Veto | n. the power to forbid or prevent v. to prohibit, reject |