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ENGLISH vocabulary 8
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Animosity | Strong dislike; bitter hostility; hatred |
| Apathy | Lack of feeling, emotion, or interest |
| Apprehensive | Fearful or anxious, especially about the future |
| Commend | To praise or express approval |
| Compatible | Able to get along or work well together |
| Condolence | Expression of sympathy |
| Consecrate | To make sacred or to set apart for special purpose |
| Decrepit | Old, worn out, or ruined |
| Deride | To ridicule or too laugh at |
| Ingenuous | Innocent or sincere |
| Multifarious | Having a great variety: numerous and diverse |
| Obsolete | Out of date; no longer in use |
| Omnivorous | Eating every kind of food; eagerly taking on a variety of everything |
| Parsimonious | Stingy |
| Quandary | State of confusing or doubt |
| Recalcitrant | Stubbornly disobedient; resisting authority |
| Reprisal | An injury done in return for injury |
| Revel | Verb: wild celebration noun: to take great pleasure in something |
| Stunt | To make ineffective or useless: to cripple |
| Suave | Smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses |