Vocab 8 Flashcards

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Apathy

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Lack of concernor emotion

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Animosity

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Hatred, strong dislike

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Apprehensive

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Anxious or fearful of the future

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Commend

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To express approval of

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Compatable

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Capable of existing or performing in harmonious, agreeable, or congenial combination

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Condolence

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Expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfourtune

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Concencrate

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To set apart as sacred

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Decrepit

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Worn and broken down by hard use

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Deride

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To laugh at with scorn, to ridicule

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Ingenuous

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Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings

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Multifarious

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Having great variety, diverse

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Obsolete

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No longer accepted, outdated

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Omnivorous

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Eating or living upon food of all kinds of indiscriminately

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Parsimonious

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Excessively unwilling to spend

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Quandary

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A dilemma

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Recalcitrant

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Stubbornly disobedient, resisting to authority

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Reprisal

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An injury done in return for an injury

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Revel

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A noisy festivity or celebration, to take great pleasure or delight

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Stultify

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To render useless, to cripple

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Suave

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Smooth and pleasent in manner