Vocab Unit 8

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

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, naïve, artless

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out of date, no longer in use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 tastes
voracious

Answer 13

omnivorous

Question 14

stingy, miserly

meager, poor, small, frugal, cheap

Answer 14

parsimonious

Question 15

a state of perplexity or doubt, confusion, dilemma

Answer 15

quandary