English Vocab Week 10

adept

• (adj.) thoroughly skilled (n.) an expert

• (adj.) bare, dreary, dismal

• (v.) to blame; scold

• (v.) to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend

slipshod

• (adj.) inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true

• (adj.) rough, irregular; severe, stern; strong; stormy

• (adj.) untidy in dress, personal habits, etc.; careless, sloppy

• (v.) to cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially; to process, extract

aspire

• (adj.) thoroughly skilled (n.) an expert

• (adj.) bare, dreary, dismal

• (v.) to blame; scold

• (v.) to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend

skeptical

• (adj.) inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true

• (adj.) rough, irregular; severe, stern; strong; stormy

• (adj.) untidy in dress, personal habits, etc.; careless, sloppy

• (v.) to cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially; to process, extract

bleak

• (adj.) thoroughly skilled (n.) an expert

• (adj.) bare, dreary, dismal

• (v.) to blame; scold

• (v.) to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend

rugged

• (adj.) inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true

• (adj.) rough, irregular; severe, stern; strong; stormy

• (adj.) untidy in dress, personal habits, etc.; careless, sloppy

• (v.) to cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially; to process, extract

chide

• (adj.) thoroughly skilled (n.) an expert

• (adj.) bare, dreary, dismal

• (v.) to blame; scold

• (v.) to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend

render

• (adj.) inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true

• (adj.) rough, irregular; severe, stern; strong; stormy

• (adj.) untidy in dress, personal habits, etc.; careless, sloppy

• (v.) to cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially; to process, extract

preamble

• (n.) mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation (v.) to get stuck

• (n.) an introduction to a speech or a piece of writing

• (adj.) drooping; without energy, sluggish

• (adj.) forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out

despicable

• (adj.) small, smaller than most others of the same type

• (adj.) incorrect, containing mistakes

• (v.) to free from slavery; to release or liberate

• (adj.) worthy of scorn, contemptible