Vocab Unit 10
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- hospitable
- (adj) offering friendly or generous treatment to guests; open to anything new or strange
- shirk
- (v) to avoid or get out of doing work, neglect a duty; to sneak, slink
- veto
- (n) the power to forbid or prevent: (v) to prohibit, reject
- surplus
- (n) an amount beyond what is required, excess: (adj) more than needed or expected
- grueling
- (adj) very tiring, calling for an extreme effort
- timidity
- (n) the state of being easly frightened
- dilapidated
- (adj) falling apart or ruined, run-down
- futile
- (adj) not successful, failing to have any result; useless; unimportant, frivolous
- lavish
- (adj) overly generous, extravagant; abundant (v) to spend or give freely or without limit
- botch
- (v) to repair or patch poorly; make a mess of: (n) a hopelessly bungled job
- parasite
- (n) an organism that lives in or on another organism; one who lives off another person
- clutter
- (v) to fill or cover in a disorderly way: (n) a state fo disorder, mess
- dismantle
- (v) to take apart; to strip of something
- pamper
- (v) to allow too many privileges; be too generous and easygoing towards
- beneficiary
- (n) one who benefits from something; a person who is left money or other property in a will or the like
- lair
- (n) the home or den of a wild animal; any hideout
- farce
- (n) a play filled with ridiculous or absurd happenings; broard or far-fetched humor;a ridiculous sham
- morbid
- (adj) in an unhealthy mental state, extremely gloomy; caused by or related to disease, unwholesome
- notorious
- (adj) widely known becuase of bad conduct
- bellow
- (v) to make sound similar to that of a bull, roar: (n) a loud angry roar