Vocab Practice - List #8

doubtful or distrustful of the goodness or sincerity of human motives; believing people act with selfish motives

• cynical
• psychological
• fastidious
• savage
• superfluous

when a man has or demonstrates characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly

• cynical
• psychological
• fastidious
• effeminate
• superfluous

to uncouple; separate; disconnect

• disengage
• emasculate
• dissatisfy
• zealously
• throttling

fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed

• cynical
• psychological
• fastidious
• savage
• superfluous

the act of agreeing without much challenge or opposition

• resignation
• heathen
• dissolution
• hysteria
• throttling

of, affecting, or arising in the mind; related to the mental and emotional state of a person

• cynical
• psychological
• fastidious
• savage
• effeminate

exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess

• effeminate
• psychological
• fastidious
• savage
• superfluous

to take away the strength or energy of something

• disengage
• emasculate
• dissatisfy
• zealously
• throttling

very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail

• cynical
• psychological
• fastidious
• savage
• superfluous

to displease

• disengage
• emasculate
• dissatisfy
• zealously
• throttling