Vocabulary 8
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 animosityMy friend holds strong animosity towards rebel teenagers. | (v) syn:enmity, rancor, antipathy strong dislike; bitter hostility |
| apathy Men tend to have more apathy than women. | (n) syn:indifference, disinterest, detachment a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest |
| apprehensive My best friend is always apprehensive towards the future because she's afraid she'll work at McDonalds. | (adj)syn:worried, nervous, fretful, jittery fearful or anxious, especially about the future |
| commend The noble knight commended the lovely princess on her eighteenth birthday. | (v)syn:applaud; entrust to praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention; to commit to the care of |
| compatible My twin brother is always compatible with me like we can actually read each other's minds. | (adj) syn: harmonious, in agreement, like-minded able to get along or work well together; capable of use with some other model or system |
| condolence I offered my condolence to her at the funeral when her father passed away. | (n) syn: commiseration, solace, sympathy an expression of sympathy |
| consecrate The bread and blood of Jesus is a consecrate blessing from God. | (v) syn: devote, dedicate, sanctify to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose |
| decrepit The decrepit doll in our attic dates back to the seventeen hundreds. | (adj) syn: infirm, broken-down, rickety, dilapidated old and feeble; worn-out, ruined |
| deride The bullies always deride the nerdy people. | (v) syn: mock, scorn, disparage, jeer at to ridicule, laugh at with contempt |
| ingenuous My parents disallow me to bring pets home but the ingenuous looking puppy tempted me to take it home. | (adj) syn: naive, artless, guileless, candid innocent, simple; frank, sincere |
| multifarious The multifarious trash in the trash can lead many pests into the home. | (adj) syn: varied, manifold, heterogeneous having great variety; numerous and diverse |
| obsolete The company was going bankrupt because their products were obsolete. | (adj) syn: outmoded, antiquated, passe, old hat out-of-date, no longer in use |
| omnivorous Humans are omnivorous, we eat all kinds of foods. | (adj) syn: all-devouring, voracious eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes |
| parsimonious Looking at her ragged clothes, she seemed parsimonious | (adj) syn: frugal, niggardly, penny-pinching, cheap stingy, miserly; meager, poor, small |
| quandary She was in quandary when we asked her to pick one of the two. | (n) syn: confusion, dilemma, predicament state of perplexity or doubt |
| recalcitrant My little sister is recalcitrant; she never listens to what I tell her. | (adj) syn: unruly, obstinate, contrary, ornery stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority |
| reprisal The reprisal all began when he cheated on her. | (n) syn: retaliation, revenge, retribution an injury done in return for injury |
| revel I was delighted when I was invited to the revel. | (v) syn: relish, savor, bask in, carousere in; to take great pleasure in; a wild celebration |
| stultify The address written on the piece of paper was stultified after rain got on the ink. | (v) syn: smother, stifle, neutralize, negate to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a dulling effect on |
| suave All eyes were on the suave man when he walked in the room | (adj) syn: sophisticated, urbane, polished smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses |
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