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WorksheetsWordly Wise Book 10 List 5
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
acrimony
rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
Bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility.
influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
affinity
the state or quality of being infinite.
Attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship.
a number greater than any assignable quantity or countable number (symbol ∞).
scold or reprimand severely or angrily
ambivalent
Having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone; indecisive
careful to consider potential consequences and avoid risk
the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself
someone to whom private matters are told
cessation
Express strong disapproval of
A stopping, either final or temporary.
Showing courteous regard for people's feelings
Exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits
Emaciated
Free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberated.
Very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny.
To release from parental care and responsibility and make sui juris.
Appropriate fraudulently to one's own use
Enclave
Praise, glorify, or honor
Unnecessary and unwarranted
A distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory.
A state of deep-seated ill-will
Engender
Shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way
Understanding and entering into another's feelings
Narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
To bring into being, to produce.
Exacerbate
Added to an existing or usual amount or number; additional.
To make more severe, bitter, or violent.
Quietly and steadily persevering in detail or exactness
An item in addition to what is usual or strictly necessary.
Illicit
To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.)
Not allowed, improper, or unlawful.
To generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
To draw out, bring out, bring forth
Indigenous
A cruel and oppressive dictator
Treatment or circumstances that cause one to feel shame or to lose one's dignity.
Naturally living or growing in a certain area; native.
Exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits
Inexorable
Not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless.
Too bad to be justified or tolerated.
Impossible to excuse or justify inexcusable rudeness.
Praise, glorify, or honor
Infatuated
(of a person or animal) having a large amount of excess flesh.
Filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire.
a natural oily or greasy substance occurring in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs.
Make up something artificial or untrue
Insatiable
As if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise
Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
Not having all the necessary or appropriate parts.
Never satisfied; greedy.
Poignant
As if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise
Painfully moving, affecting, or touching.
(of a remark or look) expressing criticism in a direct and unambiguous way.
Having a sharpened or tapered tip or end.
Proselytize
Denoting an artificial body part, such as a limb, a heart, or a lung.
Secret and sly
To convert someone to a faith, belief, or cause.
An artificial body part; a prosthesis.
