Vocabulary Unit 2

1. Vocabulary Unit 2 Academic English 10

2. You have a right to learn! After reviewing the meaning and use of each word, write a sentence of your own. Be sure to use context clues to reinforce the word’s meaning. You have to write to learn!

3. adroit • (adj) really good at doing stuff with his/her hands I admire __________________ because he/she is so adroit at _____________

4. amicable • (adj) friendly • Amigo=friend I have an amicable relationship with _____________; we have ______________.

5. averse • (adj) extremely opposed or against

6. belligerent • (adj) likes to fight, combative • (n) someone involved in a war

7. benevolent • (adj) kind, giving -does things that are “bene”ficial for others

8. Complete Sentences#5, 7, 12, 13 and 20 • On page 29

9. cursory • (adj) quickly, not looking at the details enough

10. duplicity • (n) deceitfulness • Trying to “dupe” someone • “Duplicate” personas

11. extol • (v) to praise a great deal • “ex”claim about their greatness

12. feasible • (adj) possible, able to be done • Easy-ible

13. grimace • (n) pained facial expression • (v) to make a pained face • Face caused by something “grim”

14. Complete on pages 29 and 30: 1, 6, 9, 16 and 19

15. holocaust • (n) large-scale destruction • “Costs” people a lot

16. impervious • (adj) not affected or hurt by; admitting no entrance

17. impetus • (n) a moving force, impulse, stimulus

18. jeopardy • (n) danger • Puts you in jeopardy of losing you life

19. meticulous • (adj) extremely careful, particular about details

20. Complete on pages 29 and 30 8,10,11,14 &17

21. nostalgia • (n) wanting to go back to the way things were, longing for something past

22. quintessence • (n) purest form of something or the best example • The very “essence” of it

23. retrogress • (v) to move backward, return to earlier condition • “retro”-from a before period

24. scrutinize • (v) to examine closely

25. tepid • (adj) not especially interested, lukewarm