| Term | Definition |
|---|
| ameliorate | become better; make better; improve; enhance |
| amelioration | improvement |
| conserve | keep from waste, loss, or decay; save |
| conservation | preservation from loss, injury, or waste |
| conservationist | one who advocates the conservation of natural resource |
| detriment | injury, damage, or something that causes it; disadvantage |
| detrimental | harmful; damaging |
| exotic | 1. introduced from another country; foreign 2. strikingly unusual; strange |
| folly | lack of good sense; foolish action or undertaking |
| formerly | in an earlier period; previously |
| former | preceding; previous |
| harmony | peaceable or friendly relations; accord; agreement; tranquility; concord |
| harmonious | friendly; amicable |
| ignore | refuse to take a notice of; disregard |
| ignoramus | ignorant, stupid person; dunce; dolt; dullard; noncompoop |
| impediment | something that hinders or obstructs; hindrance, obstacle |
| impede | interfere with or slow the progress of; hinder; obstruct |
| indolent | disposed to avoid exertion; lazy; idle; lethargic |
| indolence | idleness; laziness |
| intact | untouched by anything that damages or diminishes; left complete or entire; uninjured |
| invalid | not binding in law; having no force or effect; void; nugatory |
| invalidate | abolish; annul |
| invalid | sickly or disabled person |
| noncarcinogenic | not producing, or tending to produce, cancer |
| parsimonious | unduly sparing in the spending of money; stingy; miserly; tightfisted |
| parsimony | stinginess; parsimoniousness |
| raze | destroy utterly by tearing down; demolish; level |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or secretive; uncommunicative; reserved |
| reticence | restraint in communicating |
| retire | 1. withdraw from active duty or business 2. to go to bed |
| retort | (v.) answer; reply sharply or angrily |
| retort | (n.) quick, witty, or sharp reply; answer |
| subvert | overturn or overthrow from the foundation; undermine |
| subversion | sabotage; undermining |
| tractable | easily led, taught, or controlled; yielding; docile; amenable |
| baffle | bewilder; perplex; fill with confusion; puzzle; frustrate |
| baffling | frustrating; bewildering |
| cinema | movies; motion-picture industry |
| cinematography | art of making motion pictures |
| despise | look down on with contempt or disgust; loathe; regard as inferior |
| despicable | worthy of contempt; contemptible |
| ebullient | overflowing with enthusiasm; exuberant; effervescent; highspirited; vivacious |
| ebullience | exuberance |
| exaggerate | overstate; go beyond the limits of the actual truth; magnify |
| exaggeration | overstatement |
| exhort | arouse by words; advise strongly; urge |
| exhortation | urgent recommendation or advice |
| expertise | specialized skill or technical knowledge; know-how; expertness |
| finicky | excessively concerned with trifles or details; hard to please; fussy; particular; fastidious; persnickety |
| gall | (v.)make sore; irritate mentally; annoy |
| gall | (n.) brazen boldness; nerve |
| inane | lacking significance or sense; pointless; silly; insipid; jejune; vapid |
| inanity | foolishness; shallowness |
| indemnify | compensate for loss, damage, or injury; reimburse; repay |
| Occident | west; countries of America and Europe |
| occidental | western |
| peruse | read; look at fairly attentively; study |
| perusal | reading; study |
| scuffle | (v.) struggle at close quarters in a rough and confused manner; wrestle; grapple |
| scuffle | (n.) brawl; fight |
| spurn | thrust aside with disdain or contempt; reject |
| stipend | fixed pay for services; salary; regular allowance awarded a scholarship winner |
| surveillance | close watch over a person, group or area; supervision |
| tepid | moderately warm; lukewarm |
| tepidly | unenthusiastically; lukewarmly |
| wager | (v.) risk (something) on the outcome of a contest or uncertain event; gamble; bet |
| wager | (n.) bet |
| wane | decrease in power or size; dwindle; decline; sink |
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