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Wordly Wise 3000 10
Wordly Wise 3000 book 10 study set 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. |