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English unit two
English
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adriot | Very skillful with hands or mind |
| Amicable | Peaceable, freindly |
| Averse | Having a deep seated distaste, opposed, unwilling |
| Belligerent | Given to fighting, warlike, combative, aggressive, one at war or one engaged in war |
| Benevolent | Given freely and easily to others, charitable, kind |
| Cursory | Hasty, not thorough |
| Duplicity | Treachery, deceitfullness (two faced) |
| Extol | Praise, glorify, honor |
| Feasible | In the realm of possibility |
| Grimace | A facial expression of fear or pain |
| Holocaust | A large savage of destruction (mass killing) |
| Impervious | Impossible to penatrate |
| Impetus | A driving force, anything that causes an action |
| Jeopardy | Danger |
| Meticulous | Very careful about the details, fussy |
| Nostalgia | A longing for something, homesickness |
| Quintessence | The purest form |
| Retrogress | To move backward, to return to an earlier stage or condition |
| Scrutinize | Examine closely and critically |
| Tepid | Luke warm temperature or felling of emotion |