eVocabulary Vol.8
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- animosity
- n. strong dislike; bitter hostility
- apathy
- n. a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest
- apprehensive
- adj. fearful or anxious, especially about the future
- commend
- v. to praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention; to commit or work well together
- compatible
- adj. able to get along or work well together; capable of use with some other model or system
- condolence
- n. an expression of sympathy
- consecrate
- v. to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose
- decrepit
- adj. old and freeble; worn-out, ruined
- deride
- v. to ridicule, laugh at with contempt
- ingenuous
- adj. innocent, simple; frank, sincere
- multifarious
- adj. having great variety; numerous and diverse
- obsolete
- adj. out-of-date, no longer in use
- omnivous
- adj. eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything
- parsimonious
- adj. stingy, miserly, poor, small
- quandary
- a state of perplexity or doubt
- recalcitrant
- adj. stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority
- reprisal
- n. an injury done in return for injury
- revel
- v. to take great pleasure in n) a wild celebration
- stultify
- v. to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a dulling effect on
- suave
- adj. smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing, negate