VOCABULARY UNIT 8

Brittany&Cody

Words 1-10. Brittany.

Animosity Apathy Apprehensive Commend Compatible

• Condolence• Consecrate• Decrepit• Deride• Ingenuous

Animosity.

(n.) strong dislike; bitter hostility.

Apathy.

(n.) a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest.

Apprehensive.

(adj.) fearful or anxious, especially about the future.

Commend.

(v.) to praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention, to commit to the care of.

Compatible.

(adj.) able to get along or work well together; capable of use with some other model or system.

Condolence.

(n.) an expression of sympathy.

Consecrate.

(v.) to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose.

Decrepit.

(adj.) old and feeble, worn out, ruined.

Deride.

(v.) to ridicule, laugh at with contempt.

Ingenuous.

(adj.) innocent, simple, frank, sincere.

Words 11-20. Cody.

Multifarious Obsolete Omnivorous Parsimonious Quandary

• Recalcitrant• Reprisal• Revel• Stultify• Suave

Multifarious.

(adj.) having great variety; numerous and diverse.

Obsolete.

(adj.) out-of-date, no longer in use.

Omnivorous.

(adj.) eating every kind of food, eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes.

Parsimonious.

(adj.) stingy, miserly, meager, poor, small.

Quandary.

(n.) a state of perplexity or doubt.

Recalcitrant.

(adj.) stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority.

Reprisal.

(n.) an injury done in return for injury.

Revel.

(v.) to take great pleasure in; (n.) a wild celebration.

Stultify.

(v.) to make effective or useless, cripple, to have a dulling effect on.

Suave.

(adj.) smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasure to the senses.