Vocabulary Unit 2 Adroit skillful To juggle bowling

Vocabulary Unit 2

Adroit skillful To juggle bowling balls, one must be adroit.

Amicable friendly, peaceable Students should be amicable when settling disputes.

Averse strong dislike, opposed, unwilling The man is averse to eating broccoli.

Belligerent combative, aggressive, warlike The captain of boot camp has a belligerent attitude.

Benevolent kindly, well-meaning, charitable The kind man gave a benevolent gift of money to the homeless person.

Cursory quick, hasty The students did a cursory study of their history books for the test tomorrow.

Duplicity deceitful It was difficult to believe that our friend was capable of such duplicity.

Extol praise extravagantly I must extol the man who saved the boy from the shark attack.

Feasible possible, able to be done Give a feasible answer to the question for full credit.

Grimace facial expression of disgust, disapproval or pain The man grimaced when the doctor touched the cut on his arm.

Holocaust a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire Many lives were lost in the great Chicago holocaust.

Impervious impenetrable, resistant A good rain coat should be impervious to the rain.

Impetus a moving force, impulse, stimulus The reward money should be sufficient impetus for someone to come forward with information about the robbery.

Jeopardy danger When people make the decision to play in traffic, they put their lives in jeopardy.

Meticulous careful about doing something in an extremely accurate and exact way My neighbor is meticulous when cutting his lawn.

Nostalgia longing for past, homesickness The song gave the audience a feeling of nostalgia.

Quintessence most typical example The Parthenon in Greece was considered the quintessence of the perfectly proportioned building.

Retrogress move backward After curing his disease, he had retrogressed to a state worse than he had started.

Scrutinize examine closely Scrutinize this paper and tell me if this is your handwriting.

Tepid lukewarm, unenthusiastic The coffee I ordered was already tepid when I started to take a sip.