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English 10 Vocab 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acrimony | Bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech: hostility |
| Affinity | Attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship |
| Ambivalent | Having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone: indecisive |
| Cessation | A stopping, either final or temporary |
| Emaciated | Very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment: scrawny |
| Enclave | A distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory |
| Engender | To bring into being: to produce |
| Exacerbate | To make more severe, bitter, or violent |
| Illicit | Not allowed, improper, or unlawful |
| Indigenous | Naturally living or growing in a certain area: native |
| Inexorable | Not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea: relentless |
| Infatuated | Filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire |
| Insatiable | Never satisfied: greedy |
| Poignant | Painfully moving, affecting, or touching |
| Proselytize | To persuade someone to convert to a faith, belief, or cause |