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Vocabulary Workshop
Vocabulary Workshop Unit 8 Level E
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| animosity | strong dislike; bitter hostility |
| apathy | a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest |
| apprehensive | fearful or anxious, especially about the future |
| commend | to praise |
| 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 |
| ingenuous | innocent,simple;frank |
| multifarious | having great variety;numerous and diverse |
| obsolete | out-of-date |
| omnivorous | eating every kind of food |
| parsimonious | stingy,miserly;meager |
| quandary | a state of perplexity |
| 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;to have a dulling effect on |
| suave | smoothly agreeable or polite |