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Test on 10/14/25
vocab test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cater | satisfy the needs of, try try to make things easy and pleasant, to supply food and service |
| entrepreneur | a person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business |
| lubricate | to apply oil or grease, to make smooth, slippery, or easier to use |
| mutual | shared, felt., or shown equally by two or more |
| transparent | allowing light to pass through, easily recognized or understood, easily seen through or detected |
| customary | usual, expected, routine |
| dissuade | to persuade not to do something |
| firebrand | a piece of burning wood, a troublemaker, an extremely energetic or emotional person |
| hinder | to delay, to stop or prevent from happening |
| indifference | a lack or interest or concern |
| indispensable | absolutely necessary, not to be neglected |
| pelt | to throw a stream of things, to strike successfully, to hurry |
| poised | balanced, suspended, calm, controlled, ready for action |
| regime | a government in power, a form or system of rule or management, a period of rule |
| alight | to get down from, step down from, to come down from the air, land, lighted up |
| humdrum | ordinary, dull, routine, without variation |
| insinuate | to suggest or hint slyly, to edge into something indirectly |
| resume | a brief summary, a short written account of one's education, working experience, or qualifications for a job |
| trivial | not important, minor, ordinary, commonplace |
| vicious | evil, bad, spiteful, having bad habits or an ugly, disposition, painfully severe or extreme |
| barren | not productive, bare |
| disrupt | break up disturb |
| foretaste | an advance indication, sample or warning |
| hurtle | to rush violently, dash headlong, to fling or hurl forcefully |
| interminable | endless, so long as to seem endless |
| recompense | to pay back, to give a reward, a payment for loss, service, or injury |
| trickle | to flow or fall by drops or in a small stream, a small or irregular quantity of anything |