Vocabulary Unit 10 Word list
- adept:
(adj) thoroughly skilled.
- aspire:
(v) to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive for a higher goal.
- bleak:
(adj) bare, dreary, dismal
- chide:
(v) to blame; scold
- despicable:
(adj) worthy of scorn, contemptible.
- diminutive:
(adj) small, smaller than most others of the same type.
- emancipate:
(v) to free from slavery; to release or liberate.
- erroneous:
(adj) incorrect, containing mistakes.
- exploit:
(v) to make use of, develop; to make improper use for personal profit.
- extemporaneous:
(adj) made or delivered on the spur of the moment.
- impair:
(v) to make imperfect, damage, harm
- invincible:
(adj) not able to be defeated, unbeatable.
- languid:
(adj) drooping; without energy, sluggish
- mire:
(adj) mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation.
- obtrusive:
(adj) forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out
- preamble:
(n) an introduction to a speech or piece of writing.
- render:
(v) to cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially; to process,
extract.
- rugged:
(adj) rough, irregular; severe, stern; strong; stormy.
- skeptical:
(adj) inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true.
- slipshod:
(adj) untidy in dress, personal habits, etc.; careless, sloppy.