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VOCABULARY UNIT 8
Brittany&Cody
Words 1-10. Brittany.
Animosity Apathy Apprehensive Commend Compatible
• Condolence• Consecrate• Decrepit• Deride• Ingenuous
Animosity.
(n.) strong dislike; bitter hostility.
Apathy.
(n.) a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest.
Apprehensive.
(adj.) fearful or anxious, especially about the future.
Commend.
(v.) to praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention, to commit to the care of.
Compatible.
(adj.) able to get along or work well together; capable of use with some other model or system.
Condolence.
(n.) an expression of sympathy.
Consecrate.
(v.) to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose.
Decrepit.
(adj.) old and feeble, worn out, ruined.
Deride.
(v.) to ridicule, laugh at with contempt.
Ingenuous.
(adj.) innocent, simple, frank, sincere.
Words 11-20. Cody.
Multifarious Obsolete Omnivorous Parsimonious Quandary
• Recalcitrant• Reprisal• Revel• Stultify• Suave
Multifarious.
(adj.) having great variety; numerous and diverse.
Obsolete.
(adj.) out-of-date, no longer in use.
Omnivorous.
(adj.) eating every kind of food, eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes.
Parsimonious.
(adj.) stingy, miserly, meager, poor, small.
Quandary.
(n.) a state of perplexity or doubt.
Recalcitrant.
(adj.) stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority.
Reprisal.
(n.) an injury done in return for injury.
Revel.
(v.) to take great pleasure in; (n.) a wild celebration.
Stultify.
(v.) to make effective or useless, cripple, to have a dulling effect on.
Suave.
(adj.) smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasure to the senses.