English 10:Vocabulary Unit 8

strong dislike; bitter hostility

• omnivorous

• animosity

• obsolete

smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses

• ingenuous

• recalcitrant

• suave

fearful or anxious, especially about the future

• apprehensive

• multifarious

• parsimonious

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

• apathy

• deride

• stultify

to praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention

• commend

• reprisal

• consecrate

to take great pleasure in; a wild celebration

• apathy

• revel

• quandary

old and feeble; worn-out, ruined

• apprehensive

• condolence

• decrepit

stingy, miserly; meager, poor, small

• suave

• multifarious

• parsimonious

to ridicule, laugh at with contempt

• deride

• reprisal

• ingenuous

out-of-date, no longer in use

• compatible

• obsolete

• recalcitrant