10th grade vocab, chapter 2 part 1
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| ameliorate/amelioration | become better, make better, improve, enhance (worsen)/improvement (degradation)
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| conserve/conservation/conservationist | keep from waste, loss or decay, save (waste)/preservation from loss, injury or waste/one who advocates the conservation of natural resources
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| detriment/detrimental | injury, damage, or something that causes it, diadvantage (advantage)/harmful, damaging
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| exotic | 1) introduced from another country, foreign (native, indigenous)2) strikingly unusual, strange
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| folly | lack of good sense, foolish action or undertaking (wisdom)
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| formerly/former | in an earlier period, previously (now)/preceding, previous (latter)
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| harmony/harmonious | peaceable or friendly relations, accord, agreement, tranquillity, concord (conflict, disharmony)/friendly, amicable
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| ignore/ignoramous | refuse to take notice of, disregard (heed)/ignorant, stupid person, dunce, dolt, dullard, nincompoop
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| impediment/impede | something that hinders or obstructs, hindrance, obstacle (aid)/interfere with or slow the progress of, hinder, obstruct
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| indolent/indolence | disposed to avoid exertion, lazy, idle, lethargic (industrious)/idleness, laziness
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| intact | untouched by anything that damages or diminishes, left complete or entire, uninjured (imperfect)
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| invalid/invalidate/invalid | not binding in law, having no force or effect, void, nugatory (valid)/abolish, annul/sickly or disabled person
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| noncarcinogenic | not producing or tending to produce, cancer (carcinogenic)
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| parsimonious/parsimony | unduly sparing in the spending of money, stingy, miserly, tightfisted (generous)/stinginess, parsimoniousness (generosity, liberality)
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| raze | destroy utterly by tearing down, demolish, level (erect)
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| reticient/reticence | inclined to be silent or secretive, uncommunicative, reserved (frank)/restraint in communicating (frankness)
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| retire | 1)withdraw from active duty or business2) go to bed (rise)
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| retort/retort | answer, reply sharply or angrily (ask)/quick, witty, sharp reply, answer
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| subvert/subversion | overturn or overthrow from the foundation, undermine (uphold)/sabotage, undermining
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| tractable/tractabillity | easily led, taught or controlled, yielding, docile, amenable (unruly, intractable)/obedience
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