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Unit 3 Voc.
Chp.11,12,13,14,15
Question | Answer |
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Entrepreneur | Person who organizes, manages, takes risk of business |
Adept | Highly skilled; expert |
Stint | Amount of time spent |
Presumptuous | Too bold; overly confident |
Erradicate | To get rid of altogther; wipe out |
Stringent | Strictly controlled or enforced; strict, severe |
Standardize | To make consistent; cause to conform to a model |
Encompass | To include; contain |
Homogeneous | Made up of similar or identical parts; unvarying throughout |
Serdid | Indecent; morally low; corrupt |
Rancor | intense hatred or ill will; long-lasting resentment |
Innocuous | Harmless; inoffensive |
Repugnant | Offensive; distasteful; repulsive |
Masochist | Person who gains satisfaction from suffering from physical or psyhological pain |
Flamboyant | Very showy; strikingly bold |
Foible | A minor weakness or charater flaw |
Recrimination | An accusation made in response to an accuser; counterchange |
Exhort | To urge w/ arugement or strong advice |
Magnanimous | Noble to mind and sprit; forgiving |
Meticulous | Extremely careful and exact |
Exacerbate | To aggravate; make more severe |
Mitigate | To make less severe; relieve |
Unprecedented | never having occured before |
Panacea | Something that supposed to cure everything |
Atropy | To wear down, lose strength, or become weak |
Deprivation | Lack or shortage of one or more basic necessities |
Imperative | Necessary; urgent |
Objective | Based only on what can be obsevered |
Utilitarian | Made or intended for practical use |
Deplore | To feel or express disapproval of |
Exhilaration | Cheerfulness; high sprits |
Extricate | To free from a tangled situation or difficulty |
Tenuous | Having litttle substance or basis; poorly supported |
Decorum | Correctness in behavior and manners |
Rejuvenate | To make someone feel or seem young again |
Espouse | To support, argue for, or adopt |
Synchronize | To cause to occur at exactly the same time |
Facilitate | To make easier to do or to get |
Orthodox | Following established, traditional rules or beliefs |
Exorbitant | Excessive; in price; beyond what is reasonable |
Vindicate | To clear from blame or suspicion |
Placebo | Fake medicine |
Emanate | To flow or come out from a source |
Analogy | A comparasion b/w two things in order to clearify |
Subversive | Acting or intending to undermine or overthrow something established |
Criterion | A standard by which something is or can be judged |
Annihilate | To destroy completely reduce to nothingness |
Staunch | Frim; loyal; strong in support |
Holistic | Concerned w/ the whole |
Proficient | Skilled; highly competent |