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Vocab 10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adept | (adj) thoroughly skilled (n) an expert |
| Aspire | (v) to have ambitious hopes or plans, to strive forward to a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend |
| Bleak | (adj) bare, dreary, dismal |
| Chide | (v) to blame, scold |
| Despicable | (adj) worthy of scorn, contemptible |
| Dimmimutive | (adj) small, smaller than most others of the same type |
| Emancipate | (V) to free from slavery, to release or liberate |
| Erroneous | (adj) incorrect, containing mistakes |
| Exploit | (v) to make use of, develop; to make improper use for personal profit (n) a feat, deed |
| Extemporaneous | (adj) made or delivered on the spur of the moment |
| Impair | (v) to make imperfect, damage, harm |
| Invincible | (adj) not able to be defeated, unbeatable |
| Languid | (adj) drooping, without energy,sluggish |
| Mire | (n) mud; wet, swampy; a tough situation (v) to get stuck |
| Obtrusive | (adj) forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out |
| Preamble | (n) and introduction to a speech or a piece of writing |
| Render | (v) to cause or become; to preform; to deliver officially; to process, to extract |
| Rugged | (adj) rough, irregular,severe, stern, strong, stormy |
| Skeptical | (adj) inclined to doubt, slow to accept something as true |
| Slipshod | (adj) untidy in dress, personal habits, etc. careless, sloppy |