9 Vocabulary 10

Question 1

thoroughly skilled

Answer 1

adept

Question 2

to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend

Answer 2

aspire

Question 3

bare, dreary, dismal

Answer 3

bleak

Question 4

to blame or scold

Answer 4

chide

Question 5

worthy of scorn, contemptible

Answer 5

despicable

Question 6

small, smaller than most others of the same type

Answer 6

diminutive

Question 7

to free from slavery; to release of liberate

Answer 7

emancipate

Question 8

incorrect, containing mistakes

Answer 8

erroneous

Question 9

to make use of, develop; to make improper use of for personal profit

Answer 9

exploit

Question 10

made or developed on the spur of the moment

Answer 10

extemporaneous

Question 11

to make imperfect, damage, harm

Answer 11

impair

Question 12

not able to be defeated, unbeatable

Answer 12

invincible

Question 13

drooping; without energy, sluggish

Answer 13

languid

Question 14

mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation

Answer 14

mire

Question 15

forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out

Answer 15

obtrusive

Question 16

an introduction to a speech or piece of writing

Answer 16

preamble

Question 17

to cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially; to process, extract

Answer 17

render

Question 18

rough, irregular; severe, stern; strong; stormy

Answer 18

rugged

Question 19

inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true

Answer 19

skeptical

Question 20

untidy in dress, personal habits, etc.; careless, sloppy

Answer 20

slipshod