Vocab Level E Unit 2

Adroit

adjective, skillful expert in the use of the hands or mind

Amicable

adjective, peaceable friendly

Averse

adjective, having a deep-seated distaste, opposed unwilling

Belligerent

adjective/noun, given to fighting warlike combative aggressive; one at war, one engaged in war

Benevolent

adjective, kind charitable

Cursory

adjective, hasty not thorough

Duplicity

noun, treachery deceitfulness

Extol

verb, to praise extravagantly

Feasible

adjective, possible able to be done

Grimance

noun/verb, a wry face facial distortion, to make a wry face

Holocaust

noun, a large-scale destruction especially by fire, a vast slaughter, a burnt offering; the holocaust: the massacre of civilians especially Jewish people, by the Nazis in WW2 in Europe 

Impervious

adjective, not affected or hurt by, admitting of no passage or entrance

Impetus

noun, a moving force, impulse, stimulus

Jeopardy

noun, danger

Meticulous

adjective, extremely careful particular about details

Nostalgia

noun, a longing for something past, homesickness

Quintessence

noun, the purest essence or form of something, the most typical example

Retrogress

verb, to move backward, to return to an earlier condition

Scrutinize

verb, to examine closely 

Tepid

adjective, lukewarm unethusiastic, marked by an absence of interest