Vocab Workshop Level D Unit 10
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Repercussions on March 19, 2011
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Vocabulary Workshop Level D flash cards for unit 10
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adept | (adj.) thoroughly skilled; (n.) an expert |
| aspire | (v.) to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend |
| bleak | (adj.) bare, deary, dismal |
| chide | (v.) to blame; scold |
| despicable | (adj.) worthy of scorn, contemptible |
| diminutive | (adj.) small, smaller than most others of the same type |
| emancipate | (v.) to free from slaver; to release or liberate |
| erroneous | (adj.) incorrect, containing mistakes |
| exploit | (v.) to make use of, develop; to make improper use of for personal profit; (n.) a feat, deed |
| extemporaneous | (adj.) made or delivered on the spur of the moment |
| impair | (v.) to make imperfect, damage, harm |
| invincible | (adj.) not able to be defeated, unbeatable |
| languid | (adj.) drooping; without energy, sluggish |
| mire | (n.) mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation; (v.) to get stuck |
| obtrusive | (adj.) forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out |
| preamble | (n.) an introduction to a speech or piece of writing |
| render | (v.) to cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially; to process, extract |
| rugged | (adj.) rough, irregular; severe, stern; strong; stormy |
| skeptical | (adj.) inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true |
| slipshod | (adj.) untidy in dress, personal habits, etc.; careless, sloppy |
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