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Vocabulary Work 2
Test-Need to know part of speech
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adjacent | Adj. near, next to |
| Barren | Adj. not productive, bare |
| Disrupt | V. To break up/disturb |
| Dynasty | N. A powerful family or group of rulers that maintains its position or power for some time |
| Germinate | V. To begin to grow, come into being |
| Hurtle | V. To rush violently |
| Insinuate | V. To suggest or hint slyly |
| Interrogate | V. To ask questions/examine by questioning |
| Renovate | V. To repair, restore, make new again |
| Résumé | N. A brief summary of ones qualifications for a job |
| Trivial | Adj. not important, minor, commonplace |
| Vicious | Adj. evil, bad, spiteful |
| Available | (adj.) ready for use, at hand |
| Cater | (v.) to satisfy the needs of, try to make things easy and pleasant |
| Customary | (adj.) usual, expected, routine |
| Dissuade | (v.) not to take a particular course of action |
| Entrepreneur | (n.) a person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business |
| Hazard | (n.) risk, peril; (v.) to expose to danger or harm; to gamble |
| Hinder | (v.) to delay; to stop or prevent from happening |
| Homicide | (n.) the killing of one person by another |
| Indifference | (n.) a lack of interest or concern |
| Plague | (n.) an easily spread disease causing a large number of deaths; a widespread evil; |
| Transparent | (adj.) allowing light to pass through; easily recognized or understood; easily seen through or detected |
| Mutual | (adj.) shared, felt or shown equally by two or more |
| Pelt | (v.) to throw a stream of things |