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Vocabulary Unit 9-D
Vocabulary Workshop Level D Unit 9
Question | Answer |
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Auxiliary | (Adj.) Giving assistance or support;(N.) a helper |
Candid | (Adj.) frank, sincere; impartial; unposed |
Cubicle | (N.) a small room or compartment |
Drudgery | (N.) work that is hard and tiresome |
Envoy | (N.) a representative or messenger (as of government) |
Escalate | (V.) to elevate; to increase in intensity |
Expedient | (N.) a means to an end; (Adj.) advantageous, useful |
Feign | (V.) to pretend |
Flair | (N.) a natural quality, talent, or skill; a distinctive style |
Grievous | (Adj.) causing sorrow or pain; serious |
Heterogeneous | (Adj.) composed of different kinds, diverse |
Horde | (N.) a vast number(as of people); a throng |
Impel | (V.) to force, drive forward |
Incredulous | (Adj.) disbelieving, skeptical |
Inscribe | (V.) to write or engrave; to enter a name on a list |
Monologue | (N.) a speech by one actor; a long talk by one person |
Prognosis | (N.) a forecast of the probable course and outcome of a disease or situation |
Rasping | (Adj.) with a harsh, grating sound; (N.) a harsh sound |
Repugnant | (Adj.) offensive, disagreeable, distasteful |
Scuttle | (V.) to sink a ship by cutting holes in it; to get rid of something in a decisive way; to run hastily, scurry; (N.) a pail |