Wordly Wise 3000 Book 10 Lesson 5 + 6
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 acrimony | n.Bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility. |
| affinity | n. attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship. |
| ambivalent | adj. Having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone; indecisive. |
| cessation | n. A stopping, either final or temporary. |
| emaciated | adj. Very thin or wasted away, especially form lack of nourishment; scrawny. |
| enclave | n. A distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory. |
| engender | v. To bring into being, to produce. |
| exacerbate | v. To make more severe, bitter, or violent. |
| illicit | adj. Not allowed, improper, or unlawful. |
| indigenous | adj. Naturally living or growing in a certain area; native |
| inexorable | adj. Not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless |
| infatuated | adj. Filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire. |
| Insatiable | adj. Never satisfied; greedy |
| poignant | adj. Painfully moving, affecting, or touching. |
| proselytize | v. To convert someone to a faith, belief, or cause. |
| ameliorate | v. To make better; to become better; to improve |
| baleful | adj. Expressing hatred or evil; harmful, ominous. |
| berate | v. To criticize vigorously; to scold vehemently. |
| circumvent | v. To avoid through craftiness. |
| compunction | n. A feeling of anxiety or uneasiness caused by guilt. |
| condone | v. To overlook or accept without punishment; to pardon or excuse. |
| diminutive | adj. Very small; tiny. |
| euphemism | n. a polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant. |
| expendable | adj. able to be used up and then discarded or replaced. |
| heresy | n. The expression of shocking or unacceptable views. |
| infirmity | n. Physical or mental weakness or defect. |
| profane | v. To treat with scorn or irreverence. adj. 1. Disrespectful of sacred things. 2. Not connected with religion; worldly. |
| recompense | v. To pay or compensate. n. Payment; compensation. |
| repast | n. Food and drink; a meal. |
| servitude | n. A lack of freedom; forced labor. |
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