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ENGLISH vocabulary 8
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Term | Definition |
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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Obsolete | Out of date; no longer in use |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 |