Vocabulary Sadlier level E unit 8

Animosity

(n) strong dislike; biter hostillity

Apathy

(n) a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest

Apprehensive

(adj) fearful or anxious, especially about the future

Commend

(v) to praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention; to commit to the care of

Compatible

(adj) able to get along or work well together; capable of use with some other model or system

Condonlence

(n) an expression of sympathy

Consecrate

(v) to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for special purposes

Decrepit

(adj) old and feeble; worn out

Deride

(v) to ridicule, laugh at with contempt

Ingenuous

(adj) innocent, simple; frank, sincere

Multifarious

(adj) having great variety; numerous and diverse

Obsolete

(adj) out of date, no longer in use

Omnivorous

(adj) eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of taste

Parisomonious

(adj) stingy, miserly; meager, poor, small

Quandary

(n) a state of perplexity or doubt

Recalcitrant

(adj) Stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority

Reprisal

(n) an injury done in return for injury

Revel

(v) to take great pleasure in (n) a wild celebration

Stulify

(v) to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have dulling effect on

Suave

(adj) smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing ot the senses