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IB English Unit 8
IB English Literature Unit 8 vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Animosity | strong dislike, bitter hostility |
| Apathy | a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest |
| Apprehensive | fearful or anxious, especially about the future |
| Commend | to praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention; to commit to the care of. |
| Compatible | able to get along or work well together; capable of use with some other model or system |
| Condolence | an expression of sympathy |
| Consecrate | to make sacred. hallow; to set apart for a special purpose |
| Decrepit | old and feeble; worn-out, ruined |
| Deride | to ridicule, laugh at with contempt |
| Ingenuous | innocent, simple; frank, sincere |
| Multifarious | having great variety; numerous and diverse |
| Obsolete | out of date, no longer in use |
| Omnivorous | eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes |
| parsimonious | stingy, miserly; meager, poor, small |
| Quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| Recalcitrant | stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority |
| Reprisal | an injury done in return for injury |
| Revel | to take great pleasure in; a wild celebration |
| Stultify | to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a dulling effect on |
| Suave | smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses |