Vocab #6

Adroit: Skillful and adept under pressing conditions. Hostage negotiators must be adroit at their job.

Amicable: Characterized by or showing friendliness; friendly. Adults are amicable to small children.

Averse: Having a feeling of great distaste or aversion. Hitler was averse towards the Jews.

Belligerent: Inclined or eager to fight, hostile or aggressive. People in UFC are belligerent.

Benevolent: Characterized by or suggestive of benevolence; kindly. The man was benevolent to his brother.

Cursory: Hastily and superficially done; Not throughout. Must assignments are in the work of cursory.

Duplicity: Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech; double dealing. Russia is know for doing duplicity dealing.

Extol: To praise highly; laud; eulogize. The people extol the famous.

Feasible: Capable of being done, effected, or accomplished. A back flip is feasible task though a difficult one. 

Grimace:  A facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain. The man had a grimace face while looking at the trouble maker.


Holocaust:  A great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire. There was so much death is was like a second holocaust.
 
Impervious: Not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable, incapable of being injured or impaired. The titanic was thought to be a impervious structure.

Impetus: A moving force; impulse; stimulus. The president speech was impetus.


Jeopardy: Hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury. The dream home was in jeopardy.



 Meticulous: Taking or showing extreme care about minute details;precise; thorough. The art of composing can be meticulous.


 Nostalgia: A wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a formertime in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time. Soldiers in Irag are always nostalgia.


 Quintessence: The pure and concentrated essence of a Substance. People want to know what is the quintessence of chocolate is.


 retrogress: To go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: I had a cold but it retrogress into the flu. 


 scrutinize: To examine in detail with careful or critical attention. The critic scrutinize the chef recipe.

tepid: Moderately warm; Lukewarm. The gulf of Mexico is tepid.