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Reading 2 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aggravate | to irritate or annoy, to make worse. aggravation - noun, aggravating - adj |
| comprehend | to understand fully. to get information. comrehension - noun, comprehensible - adj |
| cower | to crouch down and tremble, to shrink back in fear or because of pain. |
| endure | to last, or continue to exist, to show lasting strength. enduring -noun, adj. enduring - adj |
| frugal | thrifty, not wastefull. careful on what you spend your money on. frugality - noun |
| futile | useless, worthless, or hopeless. not very effective. futility - noun |
| immense | huge or enormous. massive. immensity - noun |
| insufficient | not as much as is needed. sufficient - adj |
| laborious | involving or requiring hard work or labor. much hard and difficult work. labor - noun, verb |
| malice | the desire to do harm to something or someone. malicious - noun malign -verb |
| parasite | a pest. annoying person. a plant or animal that lives on (or within) another from which it gets food. parasitic (adj) |
| predicament | a difficult or unpleasant situation |
| scoff | to show scorn. to llok down and to make fun of someone or something. |
| trivial | not valuable or of any importantance. trivia - noun |
| unanimous | in (or based on) complete agreement. unanimity - noun |