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Friday, November 8, 2013

Vocabulary #5

Adroit: Skillful and/or clever
Amicable: Friendly, peaceable
Averse: Having a strong feeling of opposition 
Belligerent: Aggressively hostile
Benevolent: Desiring to help others
Cursory: Going over something rapidly, without noticing details
Duplicity: Speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter
Extol: To praise highly
Feasible: Easy
Grimace: A facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval or pain
Holocaust: Any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life
ImperviousImpenetrable
Impetus: A moving force
Jeopardy: Peril or danger
Meticulous: Showing extreme care about little details
Nostalgia: A sight, smell, sound that reminds you of a former time in life
Quintessence: The pure and concentrated essence of a substance
Retrogress: To go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition
Scrutinize: To examine in detail with careful or critical attention
Tepid: Characterized by a lack or force or enthusiasm 

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