Wordly Wise 3000® Level 10, Lesson 5

acrimony

(n) Bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility.

affinity

(n) Attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship.

ambivalent

(adj) Having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone; indecisive.

cessation

(n) A stopping, either final or temporary.

emaciated

(adj) Very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny.

enclave

(n) A distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory.

engender

(v) To bring into being, to produce.

exacerbate

(v) To make more severe, bitter, or violent.

illicit

(adj) Not allowed, improper, or unlawful.

indigenous

(adj) Naturally living or growing in a certain area; native.

inexorable

(adj) Not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless.

infatuated

(adj) Filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire.

insatiable

(adj) Never satisfied; greedy.

poignant

(adj) Painfully moving, affecting, or touching.

proselytize

(v) To persuade someone to convert to a faith, belief, or cause.