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Wordly Wise 10-5
10th grade English vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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1. acrimony | Bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility. |
2. affinity | Attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship. |
3. ambivalent | Having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone; indecisive. |
4. cessation | A stopping, either final or temporary. |
5. emaciated | Very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny. |
6. enclave | A distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory. |
7. engender | To bring into being, to produce. |
8. exacerbate | To make more severe, bitter, or violent. |
9. illicit | Not allowed, improper, or unlawful. |
10. indigenous | Naturally living or growing in a certain area; native. |
11. inexorable | Not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless. |
12. infatuated | Filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire. |
13. insatiable | Never satisfied; greedy. |
14. poignant | Painfully moving, affecting, or touching. |
15. proselytize | To convert someone to a faith, belief, or cause. |