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Unit 2 - Vocabulary
Unit 2 Vocabulary Workshop
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Antics | (n. pl.) ridiculous and unpredictable behavior or actions |
| Avowed | (adj., part.) declared openly and without shame, acknowledged |
| Banter | (v) to exchange playful remarks, tease; (n) talk that is playful and teasing |
| Bountiful | (adj) giving freely, generous; plentiful, given abundantly |
| Congested | (adj., part.) overcrowded, filled or occupied to excess |
| Detriment | (n) harm or loss; injury, damage; a disadvantage; a cause of harm, injury, loss, or damage |
| Durable | (adj)sturdy, not easily worn out or destroyed; lasting for a long time; (n. pl.) consumer goods used repeatedly over series of years |
| Enterprising | (adj) energetic, willing and able to start something new; showing boldness and imagination |
| Frugal | (adj) economical, avoiding waste and luxury; scanty, poor, meager |
| Gingerly | (adj., adv.) with extreme care or caution |
| Glut | (v) to provide more than is needed or wanted; to feed or fill to the point of overstuffing |
| Incognito | (adj., adv.) in a disguised state, under an assumed name or identity; (n) the state of being disguised; a person in disguised |
| Invalidate | (v) to make valueless, take away all force or effect |
| Legendary | (adj) described in well-known stories; existing in old stories (legends) rather than in real life |
| Maim | (v) to cripple, disable, injure, mar, disfigure, mulitate |
| Minimize | (v) to make as small as possible, make the least of; to make smaller than before |
| Oblique | (adj) slanting or sloping; not straightforward or direct |
| Veer | (v) to change direction or course suddenly, turn aside, shift, swerve |
| Venerate | (v) to regard with reverence, look up with great respect |
| Wanton | (adj) reckless; heartless, unjustifiable; loose in morals; (n) a spoiled, pampered person; one with low morals |