English 1 - Unit 10 Vocab

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adept
(adj.) thoroughly skilled

(n.) expert
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aspire
(v.) to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend
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bleak
(adj.) bare, dreary, dismal
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chide
(v.) to blame; scold
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despicable
(adj.) worthy of scorn, contemptible
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diminutive
(adj.) small, smaller than most others of the same type
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emancipate
(v.) to free from slavery; to release or liberate
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erroneous
(adj.) incorrect, containing mistakes
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exploit
(v.) to make use of, develop; to make improper use of for personal profit

(n.) a feat, deed
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extemporaneous
(adj.) made or delivered on the spur of the moment
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impair
(v.) to make imperfect, damage, harm
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invincible
(adj.) not able to be defeated, unbeatable
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languid
(adj.) drooping; without energy, sluggish
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mire
(n.) mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation

(v.) to get stuck
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obtrusive
(adj.) forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out
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preamble
(n.) an introduction to a speech or piece of writing
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render
(v.) to cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially; to process, extract
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rugged
(adj.) rough, irregular; severe, stern; strong; stormy
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skeptical
(adj.) inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true
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slipshod
(adj.) untidy in dress, personal habits, etc.; careless, sloppy