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Vocab 3 English
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anxious or fearful that something bad might happen | Apprehensive |
| Showing great care, attention, and perseverance | Assiduous |
| Sympathetic concern for the sufferings of misfortunes of others | Compassion |
| Amusing in an odd or whimsical way | Droll |
| A large scale destruction, especially by fire; a vast slaughter | Holocaust |
| To praise highly, especially in public | Laud |
| To be a powerful or conclusive, factor, and preventing, to have weight or affect ( AGAINST) | Militate |
| To prevent or eliminate (especially difficulties or risks) beforehand | Obviate |
| Obvious or plain; also a legal right for an invention | Patent |
| To move backward to an earlier often, worse state | Retrogress |