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Vocab Chapter 10
Liturature Vocabularay
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |