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Which word describes someone who is both honest and naive?
Which word describes someone who is both honest and naive?
- Recalcitrant
- Parsimonious
- Suave
- Ingenuous (correct)
A person showing animosity is likely to offer condolences.
A person showing animosity is likely to offer condolences.
False (B)
If a company's technology becomes outdated, it is considered what?
If a company's technology becomes outdated, it is considered what?
obsolete
To publicly endorse and express approval is to _______ someone's actions.
To publicly endorse and express approval is to _______ someone's actions.
Match the following words with their definitions:
Match the following words with their definitions:
Which of the following situations best illustrates the word 'revel'?
Which of the following situations best illustrates the word 'revel'?
Which of the following words is most closely associated with the idea of stubborn resistance?
Which of the following words is most closely associated with the idea of stubborn resistance?
If two people are compatible, it means they are likely to have animosity towards each other.
If two people are compatible, it means they are likely to have animosity towards each other.
What does it mean to 'consecrate' something?
What does it mean to 'consecrate' something?
Flashcards
Animosity
Animosity
Strong dislike; bitter hostility.
Apathy
Apathy
A lack of feeling, emotion, or interest.
Apprehensive
Apprehensive
Fearful or anxious, especially about the future.
Commend
Commend
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Compatible
Compatible
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Condolence
Condolence
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Consecrate
Consecrate
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Decrepit
Decrepit
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Deride
Deride
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Study Notes
- Animosity: strong dislike; bitter hostility.
- Apathy: a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest.
- Apprehensive: fearful or anxious, especially about the future.
- Commend: to praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention; to commit to the care of.
- Compatible: able to get along or work well together; capable of use with some other model or system.
- Condolence: an expression of sympathy.
- Consecrate: to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose.
- Decrepit: old and feeble; worn-out, ruined.
- Deride: to ridicule, laugh at with contempt.
- Ingenuous: innocent, simple; frank, sincere.
- Multifarious: having great variety; numerous and diverse.
- Obsolete: out-of-date, no longer in use.
- Omnivorous: eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes.
- Parsimonious: stingy, miserly; meager, poor, small.
- Quandary: a state of perplexity or doubt.
- Recalcitrant: stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority.
- Reprisal: an injury done in return for injury.
- Revel: to take great pleasure in; a wild celebration.
- Stultify: to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a dulling effect on.
- Suave: smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses.
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