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