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Vocab Unit 10
Unit 10 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Adept | (adj.) thoroughly skilled (n.) an expert |
Aspire | (v.) to have ambitious hopes or plans, stive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly, to ascend |
Bleak | (adj.) bare, dreamy, dismal |
Chide | (v.) to blame; scold |
Despicable | (adj.) worty of scorn, compemtible |
Diminutive | (adj.) small, smaller than most other of the same type |
Emancipate | (v.) to free from slavery; to release or liberate |
Erroneous | (adj.) incorrect, containing mistakes |
Exploit | (v.) to make use of, develop; to make improper use of for personal profit; (n.) a feat, deed |
Extemporaneous | (adj.) made or delivered on the spur of the moment |
Impair | (v.) to make or delivered on the spur of the moment |
Invincible | (adj.) not able to be defeated, unbeatable |
Languid | (adj.) drooping, without energy, sluggish |
Mire | (n.) mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation; (v.) to get stuck |
Obtrusive | (adj.) forward, undesriably prominent, thrust out |
Preamble | (n.) an introduction to a speech or piece of writing |
Render | (v.) to cause to become; to perform; to deliver offcially; to process, extract |
Rugged | (adj.) rough, irregular, severe, stern, storng, stormy |
Skeptical | (adj.) inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true |
Slipshod | (adj.) untidy in dress, personal habits, ect. ; careless, sloppy |