Lesson 5 Flashcards
Affinity
Attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship
Acrimony
Bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speach; hostility
Ambivalent
Having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone, indecisive
Cessation
A stopping, either final or temporary
Emaciated
Very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny
Enclave
A distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory
Engender
To bring into being, to produce
Exacerbate
To make more severe, bitter, or violent
Illicit
Not allowed, improper, or unlawful
Indigenous
Naturally living or growing on a certain area; native
Inexorable
Not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless
Infatuated
Filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire
Insatiable
Never satisfied; greedy
Poignant
Painfully moving, affecting, or touching
Proselytize
To persuade someone to convert to a faith, belief, or cause