Question | Answer |
Animosity | There was deep animosity hiding beneath their fake intentions. |
Apathy | There was a sense of apathy over the argument. |
Apprehensive | As the hurricane approached, apprehensive residents prepared for the worst |
Commend | They mayor commended the young people for their volunteer work. |
Compatible | Eyewitness accounts of an accident rarely are totally compatible. |
Condolence | My sincere condolences for your loss |
Consecrate | The ceremony required consecration for this event. |
Decrepit | He may look old for his age but he is hardly decrepit. |
Deride | For that reason people find jokes that deride offensive. |
Ingenuous | Dickens uses harsh words for those who take advantage of ingenuous people. |
Multifarious | Leonardo da Vinci was a man of multifarious interests. |
Obsolete | The toy we bought for my nephew proved to be obsolete. |
Omnivorous | For an omnivorous eater you sure do eat a lot of meat. |
Parsimonious | Since the Great Depression people have started to look for a more parsimonious lifestyle. |
Quandary | I could see no way out of the ethical quandary i found myself in. |
Recalcitrant | A recalcitrant individual would spend over 10 hours in a dungeon in the dark times. |
Reprisal | Some clans of Scotland engaged in cattle rustling in reprisal for real or imagined injuries. |
Revel | Some movie stars do not revel with the attention they receive. |
Stultify | Oppressive heat may stultify the mind and spirit as well as inside the body. |
Suave | Rick is particularly suave around the boss. |
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