Vocabulary Unit 2

Adroit To juggle bowling balls, one must be adroit.

Amicable Friends should be amicable when settling disputes.

Averse The man is averse to eating caviar.

Belligerent The captain of the US Marine Corps has a belligerent attitude.

Benevolent The kind man gave a benevolent gift of money to the homeless person.

Cursory The boy was doing a cursory study of his history book for the test tomorrow.

Duplicity The criminal, full of duplicity, was armed and ready to rob the bank.

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

Feasible Give a feasible answer to the question for full credit.

Grimace The grimace showed all the pain that followed the tragedy.

Holocaust The great Chicago holocaust was said to be started by Mrs. O’Leary’s cow.

Impervious A roof on a house should be impervious to the outside weather.

Impetus The impetus behind the new rule was when a student decided to eat spaghetti and meatballs in class.

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

Meticulous A clean house requires a meticulous caretaker.

Nostalgia The song gave the audience the feeling of nostalgia.

Quintessence The quintessence of gasoline is crude oil.

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

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

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