Unit 10 Flashcards

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Adept

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(Adj) thoroughly skilled
(N) an expert

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Aspire

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(V) to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive towards a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend

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Bleak

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(Adj) bare, dreary, dismal

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Chide

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(V) to blame, scold

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Despicable

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(Adj) worthy of scorn, contemptible (low cheap)

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Diminutive

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(Adj) small, smaller than most others

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Emancipate

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(V) to free from slavery, to release or liberate

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Erroneous

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(Adj) incorrect, containing mistakes

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Exploit

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(V) to make use of develop to make improper use of for personal profit
(N) a feat, deed

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Extemporaneous

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(Adj) made or delivered on the spur of the moment

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Impair

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(V) to make imperfect, damage, harm

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Invincible

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(Adj) not able to be defeated, unbeatable

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Languid

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(Adj) drooping, without energy, sluggish

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Mire

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(N) Mud; wet, swampy ground ; a tough situation
(V) to get stuck

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Obtrusive

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(Adj) forward: undesirably prominent: thrust out

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Preamble

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(N) and intro to a speech or piece of writing

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Render

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(v) to cause to become ; to preform ; to deliver officially; to process, extract

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Rugged

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(Adj) rought, irregular, severe, stern; strong; stormy

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Skeptical

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(Adj) inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true

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Slipshod

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(Adj) untidy in dress, personal habits, etc; careless, sloppy