VOCABULARY UNIT 10

ADEPT

• (adj) throughly skilled (n) an expert
• Sny: masterful, Ant: clumsy
• Bening an adept in skiing, it is easy to win multiple races.

ASPIRE

• (V) to have ambitious hopes or planes, to strive forward
• Syn: yearn
• As I develop my ideas of creating a new app to help family's, I try to aspire thoughts of helping others.

BLEAK

• (Adj) bare, dreary, dismal
• Sny: grim, Ant: rosy, cheerful
• The bleak stare of a helpless victim tore the soldiers emotions apart.

CHIDE

• (V) to blame or scold
• Sny: upbraid, Ant: approve
• To chide a child time after time causes them to remain to do the same despicable actions.

DESPICABLE

• (Adj) worthy of scorn
• Sny: low, Ant: praiseworthy
• As despicable as I am, many people look down to my cheap personality.

DIMINUTIVE

• (Adj) small, smaller than most of the same size
• Sny: undersized, Ant: oversized
• The diminutive trophy did not seem to represent first place due to the smaller size of the trophy.

EMANCIPATE

• (V) to free from slavery
• Sny: set loose, Ant: accurate
• During the emancipation proclamation, given by Abraham Lincoln, emancipated the slaves from the hostile work environment given at the plantations.

ERRONEOUS

• (Adj) incorrect, containing mistakes
• Sny: mistake, Ant: accurate
• The erroneous alibi caused the jury to become skeptical if the accused was telling the truth.

EXPLOIT

• (V) to make use of, (n) a feat, deed
• Sny: misuse
• Within economically deorived cultures, citizens will need to know how to exploit their resources in order to survive.

EXTEMPORANEOUS

• (Adj) created or delivered in the on the sour of the moment.
• Sny: spontaneous, Ant: planned
• The student that was covering for the teacher made her presentation be so successful that the audience could not tell if it was extemporaneous.

IMPAIR

• (v) to make imperfect, damage, or harm
• Sny: injure, Ant: improve
• With the injury on his impaired him to not be capable of shifting horizontally.

INVINCIBLE

• (Adj) not able to be defeated
• Sny: unconquerable, Ant: vulnerable
• The Canisius football team seemed to be invincible by not losing a single game during the course of 10 seasons.

LANGUID

• (adj) drooping, without energy
• Sny: sluggish, Ant: lively
• By sitting by the pool and sipping at a delicious glass of lemonade, I had a languid feeling over come me with not wanting to do anything.

MIRE

• (N) mud, wet (v) to get stuck
• Sny: swamp
• As it begun to rain, the baseball field became a mire and was not capable of hosting a game.

OBTRUSIVE

• (Adj) forward thrust out
• Sny: brash, Ant: reserved
• Not a single person could walk without tripping over the obtrusive box in the middle of the isle.

PREAMBLE

• (N) an introduction to a speech
• Sny: opening, Ant: ending
• The preamble to my paper stated what I would be writing about in the remaining body of my essay.

RENDER

• (V) to cause to become
• Sny: present
• By rendering the syrup to become a thick and surgery substance, the store could make them into moose shaped candies.

RUGGED

• (Adj) rough, irregular
• Sny: rocky, Ant: smooth
• After walking on the hot, rugged, and drugging on terrain, they where sure to stop very soon.

SKEPTICAL

• (Adj) inclined to doubt
• Sny:suspicious, Ant: believing
• The constant "um" caused people to become skeptical if the man was telling the truth.

SLIPSHOD

• (Adj) untidy in dress
• Sny: messy, Ant: tidy
• When students approach the end of the day, their dress becomes very slipshod.