Worldly Wise #9 Flashcards
Aggravate
- To make worse
2. To anger or annoy
Accumulate
To increase in number or amount; to pile up, collect, or gather
Aggravation
- Annoyance; exasperation
2. A source of annoyance or exasperation
Conserve
To save by using carefully
Conservation
The saving or protection of something through careful use
Contaminate
To harm by contact with something undesirable
Contamination
The act of or result of contaminating
Diminish
To make or become smaller or less; to reduce
Drastic
Severe; extreme
Extravagant
Spending, costing, or using more than is required.
Extravagance
The quality of being wasteful or spending more than is necessary.
Frugal
Careful in spending or using something.
Impurity
Something that is harmful or dirty
Peril
Danger; something that is dangerous
Imperil
To place in danger
Perilous
Dangerous
Perpetual
Lasting or seeming to last forever or for a long time; continuous
Resource
A supply that can be used when there is a need.
Resourceful
Able to deal with difficult problems
Substitute
- To replace one thing or person for another
- Something or someone that replaces another
- Acting in place of something or someone else
Substain
- To keep up; to support.
2. To suffer; to undergo.
Vital
- Necessary for continued life or prosperity2
- Full of lively spirit
- Of the greatest importance