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Vocab Chapter 10
Liturature Vocabularay
Term | Definition |
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Adept | Thoroughly skilled; An expert |
Aspire | To have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend |
Bleak | Bare, dreary, dismal |
Chide | To blame; scold |
Despicable | Worthy of scorn, contemptible |
Diminutive | Small, smaller than most others if the same type |
Emancipate | To free from slavery; to release or liberate |
Erroneous | Incorrect, containing mistakes |
Exploit | To make use of, develop; to make improper use use if for personal profit; A feat, dead |
Extemporaneous | Made or delivered on the spur of the moment |
Impair | To make imperfect, damage, harm |
Invincible | Not able to be defeated, unbeatable |
Languid | Drooping, without energy, sluggish |
Mire | Mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation To get stuck |
Obtrusive | Forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out |
Preamble | An introduction to a speech or piece of writing |
Render | To cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially; to process, extract |
Rugged | Rough, irregular; severe, stern; strong; stormy |
Skeptical | Inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true |
SLipshod | Untidy in dress, personal habits, etc.; careless, sloppy |