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Level E Unit 8
Term | Definition |
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animosity | strong dislike |
apathy | a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest |
apprehensive | fearful or anxious, especially about the future |
commend | to praise, express approval |
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 with contempt |
ingenuous | innocent, simple |
multifarious | having great variety |
obsolete | out of date |
omnivorous | eating every kind of food |
parsimonious | stingy, miserly |
quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
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 |
suave | smoothly agreeable or polite |