Vocab 8 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Apathy
A lack of feeling, emotion, or interest
Animosity
Strong dislike; bitter hostility
Apprehensive
fearful or anxious, especially about the future
Commend
To praise, express approval; to present as worthy attention; to commit to care of
Compatible
Able to get along with or work well together; capable of use with some other model or system
Condolence
An expression of sympathy
Consecrate
To make scared, 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Out-of-date, no longer in use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
Parsiminous
Stingy, miserly, meager, poor, small
Quandry
a state of perplexity or doubt
Recalcitrant
Stubbornly disobedient resisting authority
Reprisal
an injury done in return for injury
Revel
to take great pleasure in; a wild celebration
Stultify
to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a dulling effect on
Suave
smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses