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English unit two
English
Term | Definition |
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Adriot | Very skillful with hands or mind |
Amicable | Peaceable, freindly |
Averse | Having a deep seated distaste, opposed, unwilling |
Belligerent | Given to fighting, warlike, combative, aggressive, one at war or one engaged in war |
Benevolent | Given freely and easily to others, charitable, kind |
Cursory | Hasty, not thorough |
Duplicity | Treachery, deceitfullness (two faced) |
Extol | Praise, glorify, honor |
Feasible | In the realm of possibility |
Grimace | A facial expression of fear or pain |
Holocaust | A large savage of destruction (mass killing) |
Impervious | Impossible to penatrate |
Impetus | A driving force, anything that causes an action |
Jeopardy | Danger |
Meticulous | Very careful about the details, fussy |
Nostalgia | A longing for something, homesickness |
Quintessence | The purest form |
Retrogress | To move backward, to return to an earlier stage or condition |
Scrutinize | Examine closely and critically |
Tepid | Luke warm temperature or felling of emotion |