10.Vocab 1

skillful, highly proficient, expert

• adept

• callous

• dogmatic

• timorous

comparable in such a way that an analogy can be drawn

• analogous

• boisterous

• frugal

• disreputable

of the past; extremely old or out-of-date

• archaic

• circuitous

• diligent

• plausible

showing great kindness or goodwill, performing good and charitable acts and not seeking to make a profit

• benevolent

• adept

• cynical

• despondent

full of noisy enthusiasm and energy and often rough and wild

• boisterous

• dogmatic

• timorous

• frugal

Hardhearted, showing no concern that other people are or might be hurt or upset

• callous

• benevolent

• archaic

• plausible

going in a winding, indirect way;

lengthy because the route is indirect

• circuitous

• callous

• disreputable

• analogous

distrustful of human nature or the motives, goodness, sincerity of others 

• cynical

• callous

• diligent

• timorous

extremely unhappy or discouraged

• despondent

• dogmatic

• frugal

• benevolent

showing persistent and hard-working effort in doing something

• diligent

• circuitous

• archaic

• plausible