Vocab 8 Flashcards

(20 cards)

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Apathy

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A lack of feeling, emotion, or interest

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Animosity

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Strong dislike; bitter hostility

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Apprehensive

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fearful or anxious, especially about the future

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Commend

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To praise, express approval; to present as worthy attention; to commit to care of

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Compatible

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Able to get along with or work well together; capable of use with some other model or system

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Condolence

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An expression of sympathy

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Consecrate

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To make scared, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose

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Decrepit

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Old and feeble; worn-out, ruined

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Deride

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To ridicule, laugh at with contempt

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Ingenuous

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Innocent, simple, frank, sincere

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Multifarious

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Having great variety, numerous and diverse

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Obsolete

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Out-of-date, no longer in use

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Omnivorous

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Eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything having a wide variety of tastes

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Parsiminous

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Stingy, miserly, meager, poor, small

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Quandry

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a state of perplexity or doubt

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Recalcitrant

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Stubbornly disobedient resisting authority

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Reprisal

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an injury done in return for injury

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Revel

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to take great pleasure in; a wild celebration

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Stultify

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to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a dulling effect on

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Suave

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smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses