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Sadlier E: Unit 8
Vocabulary Pracitce
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| animosity | strong dislike |
| apathy | a lack of feeling, emotion, or intrest |
| apprehensive | fearful or anxious |
| commend | to praise |
| compatible | able to get along or work well together |
| condolence | an expression of sympathy |
| consecrate | to make sacred, hallow |
| decrepit | old and feeble |
| deride | to riducule |
| ingenuous | innocent, simple; frank, sincere |
| multifarious | having great variety |
| obsolete | out-of-date, no longer in use |
| omnivorous | eating every kind of food; having a wide variety of tastes |
| pasimonious | stingy, miserly |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| recalcitrant | stubbornly disobedient |
| reprisal | an injury done in return for injury |
| revel | to take great pleasure |
| stultify | to make ineffective or useless |
| suave | smoothly agreeable or polite |