English Spelling/Vocab

Perfunctory

• take in and understand fully

• liken

• carried out without real (interest,effort, feeling)

• very weak or slight

Assimilate

• Take in and understand fully

• Make a problem, bad situation or negative feeling worst

• A person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals

• Subject to chance

Propensity

• A false absurd, or distorted representation of something

• A loud confused noise especially one caused by a large mass of people

• showing critical or disrespectful attitude

• An inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way

Exacerbate

• prevent from happening, make impossible

• Make a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worst

• very weak or slight

• an idea or feeling which a word invokes person in addition to its literal or primary meaning

Connotation

• showing a critical or disrespectful attitude

• an idea or feeling which a word invokes person in addition to its literal or primary meaning

• carried out without real interest, feeling or effort.

• (of regulations, requirements or conditions)strict, precise and exacting

Contingent

• That can be anticipated to arise if a particular event occurs

• not discovered or known about; uncertain

• Subject to chance

• not sufficiently, strict, severe or careful

Tenuous

• very weak or slight

• a false absurd, or distorted representation of something

• a person with an obstinately uncooperative attitude

Derogatory

• showing a critical or disrespectful attitude

• (of an action or decision) performed by or affecting only one person, group, or country involved in a situation, without the agreement of another or the others

• carried out without real interest, feeling or effort

• Ready to accept control or instruction, submissive

Zealot

• a loud confused noise especially one caused by a large mass of people

• regard as similar; liken

• A person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals

• very weak or slight

Travesty

• not sufficiently, strict, severe or careful

• a false absurd, or distorted representation of something

• take in and understand fully

• prevent from happening, make impossible