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Vocab Unit 10
Unit 10 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adept | (adj.) thoroughly skilled (n.) an expert |
| Aspire | (v.) to have ambitious hopes or plans, stive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly, to ascend |
| Bleak | (adj.) bare, dreamy, dismal |
| Chide | (v.) to blame; scold |
| Despicable | (adj.) worty of scorn, compemtible |
| Diminutive | (adj.) small, smaller than most other of the same type |
| Emancipate | (v.) to free from slavery; to release or liberate |
| Erroneous | (adj.) incorrect, containing mistakes |
| Exploit | (v.) to make use of, develop; to make improper use of for personal profit; (n.) a feat, deed |
| Extemporaneous | (adj.) made or delivered on the spur of the moment |
| Impair | (v.) to make or delivered on the spur of the moment |
| Invincible | (adj.) not able to be defeated, unbeatable |
| Languid | (adj.) drooping, without energy, sluggish |
| Mire | (n.) mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation; (v.) to get stuck |
| Obtrusive | (adj.) forward, undesriably prominent, thrust out |
| Preamble | (n.) an introduction to a speech or piece of writing |
| Render | (v.) to cause to become; to perform; to deliver offcially; to process, extract |
| Rugged | (adj.) rough, irregular, severe, stern, storng, stormy |
| Skeptical | (adj.) inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true |
| Slipshod | (adj.) untidy in dress, personal habits, ect. ; careless, sloppy |