English 10R Quarterly Review

Abhor

• to yield to; to assume an office or dignity

• to regard with horror or loathing; to hate deeply

• to corrupt, make worse by the addition of something of lesser value

• to change in a formal way; to change for the better

Ambidextrous

• able to use both hands equally well; very skillful

• peaceable, friendly, congenial, neighborly

• a clever trick or skill

• to express agreement

v. to corrupt, make worse by the addition of something of lesser value

• Amend

• Accede

• Adulterate

• Assent

Belligerent

• deprived of; made unhappy through a loss

• given to fighting, warlike; combative, aggressive

• to wave or flourish in a menacing or vigorous fashion

• mercy, humaneness; mildness, moderateness

Commend

• to praise

• roomy, spacious

• able to get along or work well together

• an expression of sympathy

v. to erase, obliterate, destroy

• Disperse

• Deft

• Delete

• Expunge

Finite

• easily done or attained; superficial; ready, fluent

• having limits; lasting for a limited time

• not affected or hurt by; admitting of no passage or entrance

• to scatter, spread far and wide

Condolence

• an expression of sympathy

• to move toward one point

• eating away gradually, acidlike; bitterly sarcastic

• skillful, nimble

Indomitable

• Innocent, simple, frank, sincere

• Unconquerable, refusing to yield

• Coming at a bad time; not appropriate

• A hint, indirect suggestion, clue, indication, inkling

innocent, simple, frank, sincere

• Ingenious
• Condone

• Temerity

• Reiterate