| Term | Definition |
|---|
| ameliorate | get better |
| 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 resources |
| detriment | harm or loss; injury, damage; a disadvantage; a cause of harm, injury, loss, or damage |
| detrimental | harmful; damaging |
| exotic | strikingly strange or unusual |
| 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 | refust to take notice of; disreguard |
| ignoramus | ignorant, stupid person; dunce; dolt; dullard; nincompoop |
| impediment | somthing 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 keep silent; reserved |
| reticence | restraint in communicating |
| retire | withdraw from active dty or business; go to bed |
| retort | answer; reply sharply or angrily |
| retort | quick, witty, or cutting reply |
| subvert/subversion | overturn or overthrow/ sabotage |
| tractable/tractibility | easily led, taught or controlled/ obedience |
| baffle/baffling | bewilder,perplex/frustrating, bewlidering |
| cinema/cinematography | movies/ art of making motion pictures |
| despise/despicable | look down on with contempt or disgust/worthy of contempt |
| ebullient/ ebullience | overflowing with enthusiasm/ exuberance |
| exaggerate/exaggeration | overstate, go beyond the limits/ overstatement |
| exhort/exhortation | arouse by words, advise strongly/ urgent recommendation |
| expertise | specialized skill or technical |
| finicky | excessively concerned with trifles or details; hard to please |
| gall/gall | make sore, irritate mentally, annoy/ brazen bolness, nerve |
| inane/ inanity | lacking significane or sense, pointless/ foolishness |
| indemnify | compensate for loss, damage, or injury |
| Occident/occidental | west, countries of America and Europe/occidental |
| peruse/perusal | read, study/ reading |
| scuffle/scuffle | struggle at close quarters in a rough and confused manner/brawl, fight |
| spurn | thrust aside with disdain or contempt, reject |
| stipend | fixed pay for services, salary |
| surveillance | close watch over a person, group, or area |
| tepid/tepidly | lukewarm/ unenthusuastically |
| wager/wager | risk on the outcome of a conteset or uncertain event/ bet |
| wane | decrease in power or size, dwindle |
| abhorrent/ abhor | in conflict, utterly opposed/ utterly detest, hate |
| admonish/ admonition | reprove gently but seriously, warn or fault, caution/ gentle warning |
| ambrosial | extremely pleasing to taste or smell, delicious |
| confine/confinement | shut up, imprison/ imprisonment |
| decade | period of ten years |
| detonate/detonation | explode with suddenness and ciolence, cause something to explode/ explosion |
| ephemeral | lasing one day only, fleeting, trasnitory, short-lived |
| gullible/gull | easily deceived or cheated/ deceive, cheat |
| haggle | dispute or argue over a price in a petty way |
| immerse/immersion | plunge or place into a liquid, engross, absorb/ state of being deeply engrossed |
| insomnia/ insomniac | inability to sleep/ person suffering from insomnia |
| lapse/lapse | slip, error, accidental mistake, interval/ cease being in force, become invalid |
| probe/prober | critical inquiry into suspected illegal activity, investigation/ investigator |
| render/rendering | hand down officially, deliver, give/ presentation, interpretation |
| repast | food for one occasion of eating, meal |
| replenish | bring back to condition of being full, refill |
| score | group or set of twenty |
| snub/snub | act of instance of treating with contempt, insult/ treat with disdain or contempt |
| suture | strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body, stitch made with such material |
| unwittingly | unintentionally, by accident, unknowingly |
| acquit/ acquittal | relieve from an accusation, pronounce not guilty, perform one's part, conduct oneself/ exculpation, discharge |
| complex/ complexity | having varied interrelated parts, hard to understand, intricate/ difficulty |
| consign/ consignee | give, transfer, or deliver, hand over/ person to whom something is shipped |
| effrontery | shameless boldness, nerve, gall |
| excruciating | causing great pain or anguish, unbearably painful |
| forbearance | act of refraining, patience |
| hamper | interfere with, hinder, impede |
| nettlesome | irritating, causing annoyance or vexation |
| oblivious/ oblivion | not aware/ condition of being forgotten or unknown |
| prodigious/ prodigy | extraordinary in amount or size, enormous/ person of extraordinary talent or ability |
| rejuvenate | make young or youthful again, refresh |
| residue/ residual | what is left after a part is taken, remainder/ remainig after a part is used or taken |
| salutary | favorable to health, beneficial |
| scrutinize/ scrutiny | examine very closely, inspect/ examination, inspection |
| supersede | force out of use, displace, replace |
| sweltering/swelter | oppressively hot/ suffer from oppressive heat |
| unruffled | not upset or agitated, calm, cool, collected |
| unwieldy/ unwieldiness | hard to handle because of size or weight, bulky/ bulkiness |
| withdraw/ withdrawl | tack back, remove, draw back, retreat, leave/ taking back, removal, departure |
| zany/zany | having the characteristics of a clown, crazy, loony/ clown, buffoon |
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