Vocab Unit 8

Question 1

(n.) strong dislike; bitter hostility

Answer 1

Animosity

Question 2

(n.) a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest

Answer 2

Apathy

Question 3

(adj.) fearful or anxious, especially about the future

Answer 3

Apprehensive

Question 4

(v.) to praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention; to commit to the care of

Answer 4

Commend

Question 5

(adj.) able to get along or work well together; capable of use with some other model or system

Answer 5

Compatible

Question 6

(n.) an expression of sympathy

Answer 6

Condolence

Question 7

(v.) to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose

Answer 7

Consecrate

Question 8

(adj.) old and feeble; worn-out, ruined

Answer 8

Decrepit

Question 9

(v.) to ridicule, laugh at with contempt

Answer 9

Deride

Question 10

(adj.) innocent, simple; frank, sincere

Answer 10

Ingenuous

Question 11

(adj.) having great variety; numerous and diverse

Answer 11

Multifarious

Question 12

(adj.) out-of-date, no longer in use

Answer 12

Obsolete

Question 13

(adj.) eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes

Answer 13

Omnivorous

Question 14

(adj.) stingy, miserly; meager, poor, small

Answer 14

Parsimonious

Question 15

(n.) a state of perplexity or doubt

Answer 15

Quandary

Question 16

(adj.) stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority

Answer 16

Recalcitrant

Question 17

(n.) an injury done in return for injury

Answer 17

Reprisal

Question 18

(v.) to take great pleasure in; (n.) a wild celebration

Answer 18

Revel

Question 19

(v.) to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a dulling effect on

Answer 19

Stultify

Question 20

(adj.) smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses

Answer 20

Suave