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Vocab List 2
Vocabulary List 2 - ALL
Question | Answer |
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Adroit | skillful, expert in the use of the hands or mind |
Amicable | peaceable, friendly |
Averse | having a deep-seated distaste; opposed, unwilling |
Belligerent | given to fighting, warlike; combative, aggressive; (n) one at war, one engaged in war |
Benevolent | kindly, charitable |
Cursory | hasty, not through |
Duplicity | treachery, deceitfulness |
Extol | to praise extravagantly |
Feasible | possible, able to be done |
Grimace | a wry face, facial distortion; (v) to make a wry face |
Holocaust | a large-scale destruction, especially by fire; a vast slaughter; a burnt offering |
Impervious | not affected or hurt by; admitting of no passage or entrance |
Impetus | a moving force, impulse, stimulus |
Jeopardy | danger |
Meticulous | extremely careful; particular about details |
Nostalgia | a longing for something past; homesickness |
Quintessence | the purest essence or form of something; the most typical example |
Retrogress | to move backward; to return to an earlier condition |
Scrutinize | to examine closely |
Tepid | lukewarm; unenthusiastic, marked by an absence of interest |