Spelling Ch 10
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- adept
- thoroughly skilled; an expert
- aspire
- to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend
- bleak
- bare, dreary, dismal
- chide
- to blame; scold
- despicable
- worthy or scorn, contemptible
- diminutive
- small, smaller than most others of the same type
- emancipate
- to free from slavery; to release or liberate
- erroneous
- incorrect, containing mistakes
- exploit
- to make use of, develop; to make improper use of for personal profit; a feat, deed
- extemporaneous
- made or delivered on the spur of the moment
- impair
- to make imperfect, damage, harm
- invincible
- not able to be defeated, unbeatable
- languid
- drooping; without energy, sluggish
- mire
- mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation; to get stuck
- obtrusive
- forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out
- preamble
- an introduction to a speech or piece of writing
- render
- to cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially; to process, extract
- rugged
- rough, irregular; severe, stern; stong; stormy
- skeptical
- inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true
- slipshod
- untidy in dress, personal habits, etc.; careless, sloppy