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AdvEng Vocab Unit8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a state of perplexity or doubt | Quandary |
| able to get along or work well together, capable of use with some other model or system | Compatible |
| a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest | Apathy |
| to take great pleasure in, a wild celebration | Revel |
| an injury done in return for injury | Reprisal |
| old and feeble, worn-out, ruined | Decrepit |
| smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses | Suave |
| strong dislike; bitter hostility | Animosity |
| stingy, miserly; meager, poor, small | Parsimonious |
| having great variety;numerous and diverse | Mulitifaious |
| to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose | Consecrate |
| fearful or anxious, especially about the future | Apprehensive |
| to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a dulling effect on | Stultify |
| innovent, naive, simple, frank | Ingenuous |
| to ridicule, laugh at with contempt | Deride |
| out of date, no longer in use | Obsolete |
| stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority | Recalcitrant |
| to prasie, express approval; to present as worthy of attention; to commit to the care of | Commend |
| eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes | Omniverious |
| an expression of sympathy | Condolence |