1. Improving Vocabulary Skills
Chapter 10

2. Scrutiny - n
Scrutinize - v

3. Careful look or examination of something
Be sure to scrutinize the documents before you sign them.

4. Vulnerable - adj
Vulnerability - n

5. Unprotected, able to be hurt
Their team is vulnerable to lose now that their best player is injured.

6. Intricate - adj

7. The intricate design of the temple impresses all visitors.
complex
The intricate design of the temple impresses all visitors.

8. Incoherence – n Incoherently - adv
Incoherent - adj
Incoherence – n
Incoherently - adv

9. illogical
No one could understand her essay because it was incoherent. It just didn’t make sense.

10. Implausibility – n Implausibly - adv
Implausible - adj
Implausibility – n
Implausibly - adv

11. Difficult to believe
Dennis Kucinich’s claim that he had seen a UFO was not only implausible, but it was preposterous

12. Intercede - v

13. To go between to help
Kofi Annan interceded between Odinga and Kibaki after the disputed elections in Kenya.

14. Sinister - adj
Sin – n
Sinisterly - adv

15. Al-Qaeda has sinister intentions against the US
In an evil way; wicked
Al-Qaeda has sinister intentions against the US

16. Sufficient – adj Sufficiently - adv
Suffice - v
Sufficient – adj
Sufficiently - adv

17. To be enough
One appetizer for our table should suffice for all four of us because the serving is huge.

18. Degenerate - v
Degeneration – n

19. To worsen
The economy has been degenerating ever since the housing market fell apart.

20. Sanctuary - n

21. I go to my room for sanctuary when everyone starts fighting.
Safe place
I go to my room for sanctuary when everyone starts fighting.