Vocabulary IV: Definitions 🍁Fall🍁

1. Adroit: quick or skillful or adept in action or thought

2. Amicable: characterized by friendship and good will

3. Averse: strongly opposed

4. Belligerent: characteristics of an enemy or one who is eager to fight

5. Benevolent: (a) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding (b) intending or showing kindness (c) generous in providing aid to others or in assistance to the poor

6. Cursory: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough

7. Duplicity: acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

8. Extol: praise, glorify, or honor

9. Feasible: capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are

10. Grimace: contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state

11. Holocaust: an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war by fire)

12. Impervious: not admitting of passage or capable of being affected

13. Impetus: a force that moves something along or the act of applying force suddenly

14. Jeopardy: a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune

15. Meticulous: marked by precise accordance with details

16. Nostalgia: longing for something past

17. Quintessence: (a) the most typical example or representative of a type (b) the purest and most concentrated essence of something (c) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies

18. Retrogress: to get worse or fall back to a previous condition

19. Scrutinize: (a) to examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification (b) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail

20. Tepid: (a) moderately warm (b) feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm