Vocab #5

1) Adroit (adj) -cleverly skillful, resourceful or ingenious

2) Amicable (adj) -characterized or showing goodwill; friendly

3) Averse (adj) -strong feeling of opposition; opposed

4) Belligerent (adj) -warlike character, aggresively hostile

5) Benevolent (adj) -characterized by or expressing good will or kindly feelings

6)  Cursory (adj) -going rapidly over something, without noticing details

 7) Duplicity (n) -deceitfulness in speech or conduct; acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter

 8) Extol (v) -to praise highly, laud

9) Feasible (adj) -capable of being done, effected or accomplished 

10) Grimace (n) -a facial expression, often ugly or contorted that indicates disapproval, pain

11) Holocaust (n) -a great or complete devastation or destruction especially by firing

 12) Impervious (adj) -not permitting penetration or passage incapable of being injured or impaired

13)  Impetus (n) -moving force, impulse, stimulus

14) Jeopardy (n) -hazard or risk of exposure to loss harm, death or injury; peril or danger

 15) Meticulous (adj) -taking or showing minute details; precise, thorough

 16) Nostalgia (n) -a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's lives

17) Quintessence (n) -the pure and concentrated essence of a substance

18) Retrogress (v) -to go backward into an earlier and usually wise condition

19) Scrutinize (v) -to examine in detail with careful or critical attention

20) Tepid (adj) -characterized by a lack of force or enthusiasm