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Vocab Packet
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amplify | to make stronger, larger, greater, louder, or the like |
| Armistice | a temporary peacel, halt in figthing |
| Arrogant | haughty, too convinced of one's own importance |
| Bland | gentle, soothing, mild; lacking interest or taste |
| Disclaim | to deny interest in or connection with;to deny interest in or connection with;to give up all claim to |
| Epoch | a distinct period of time, era, age |
| Estrange | to drift apart or become unfriendly; to cause such a separation; to remove or keep at a distance |
| Gratify | to please; satisfy; to indulge or humor |
| Infinite | (Adj.)exceedingly great, inexhaustible, without limit, endless;(n. preceeded by the), an incalculble number, the concept of infinity, (Cap L) a name for God |
| Irascible | easily made angry, hot-tempered |
| Kindred | (n) a person's relatives; a family relationship; (adj) related by blood; like, similiar |
| Naive | innocent, unsophisticated, showing lack of wordly knowledge and experience |
| Niche | a decorative recess in a wall; a suitable place or posistion for a person or thing |
| Obliterate | to blot out completely, destroy utterly |
| Ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse, loose and shacky |
| Ransack | to search or examine thoroughly; to rob, plunder |
| Rote | (n) unthinking routine or repetition, a fixed or mechanical way of doing something; (adj) based on a mechanical routine |
| Solvent | (adj) able to meet one's financial obligations; having the power to dissolve other substances; (n)a liquid used to dissolve other substances; something that solves, explains, elimitates, or softens |
| Tedious | long and tiresome |
| Vendor | a person who sells something |