Unit Eight Flashcards
(20 cards)
Apathy
A lack of feeling, emotion, or interest
Animosity
A strong dislike
Apprehensive
Anxious, nervous, especially about the future
Commend
To praise, express approval
Compatible
Able to get along well together, capable of use with some other model
Condolence
Expression of sympathy
Consecrate
To make sacred, hallow. To set apart for a special purpose
Decrepit
Old and feeble. Worn out, ruined
Deride
To ridicule, laugh at with contempt
Ingenuous
Innocent, simple, frank sincere
Multifarious
Having great variety, numerous and diverse
Obsolete
Out of date, no longer in use
Omnivorous
Eating every kind of food, eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes
Parsimonious
Stingy, miserly, meager, poor, cheap
Quandary
A state of perplexity or doubt
Recalcitrant
Stubbornly, disobedient
Reprisal
An injury done in return for injury, revenge, retaliation
Revel
To take great pleasure in
Stultify
To make effective or useless, cripple, to have a dulling effect on
Suave
Smoothly agreeable or polite, pleasing to the senses
