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Wordly Wise 10-5
10th grade English vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. acrimony | Bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility. |
| 2. affinity | Attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship. |
| 3. ambivalent | Having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone; indecisive. |
| 4. cessation | A stopping, either final or temporary. |
| 5. emaciated | Very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny. |
| 6. enclave | A distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory. |
| 7. engender | To bring into being, to produce. |
| 8. exacerbate | To make more severe, bitter, or violent. |
| 9. illicit | Not allowed, improper, or unlawful. |
| 10. indigenous | Naturally living or growing in a certain area; native. |
| 11. inexorable | Not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless. |
| 12. infatuated | Filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire. |
| 13. insatiable | Never satisfied; greedy. |
| 14. poignant | Painfully moving, affecting, or touching. |
| 15. proselytize | To convert someone to a faith, belief, or cause. |