Ch 8 Definitions

Question 1

strong dislike, bitter hostility

Answer 1

animosity

Question 2

a lack of feeling, emotion or interest

Answer 2

apathy

Question 3

fearful or anxious, especially about the future

Answer 3

apprehensive

Question 4

to praise, express approval, to present as worthy of attention, to commit to the care of

Answer 4

commend

Question 5

able to get along or work well together, capable of use with some other model or system

Answer 5

compatible

Question 6

an expression of sympathy

Answer 6

condolence

Question 7

to make sacred, hallow, to set apart for a special purpose

Answer 7

consecrate

Question 8

old and feeble, worn-out, ruined

Answer 8

decrepit

Question 9

to ridicule, laugh at with contempt

Answer 9

deride

Question 10

innocent, simple; frank, sincere

Answer 10

ingenuous

Question 11

having great variety, numerous and diverse

Answer 11

multifarious

Question 12

out of date, no longer in use

Answer 12

obsolete

Question 13

eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of taste

Answer 13

omnivorous

Question 14

stingy, miserly, meager, poor, small

Answer 14

parsimonious

Question 15

a state of perplexity or doubt

Answer 15

quandary

Question 16

stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority

Answer 16

recalcitrant

Question 17

an injury done in return for injury

Answer 17

reprisal

Question 18

to take pleasure in; a wild celebration

Answer 18

revel

Question 19

to make ineffective, cripple; to have a dulling effect on

Answer 19

stultify

Question 20

smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses

Answer 20

suave