Flashcards › chapter 2 vocab for the college bound

ameliorate become better; make better; improve conserve keep from waste, loss, or decay; save detriment injury; damage, or something that causes it exotic introduced from another country; foreign 2. strikingly unusual folly lack of good sense; foolish action or undertaking formerly in an earlier period; previously harmony peaceable or friendly relations; accord; agreement; tranquillity ignore refuse to take notice of impediment something that hinders or obstructs; an obstruction indolent disposed to avoid exertion; lazy; idle intact untouched by anything that damages or diminishes; left intact; uninjured invalid not binding in law; havingt no force or effect noncarcinogenic not producing or tending to produce cancer parsimonious stingy; miserly; tight-fisted raze destroy; demolish reticent inclined to be silent or secretive retire withdraw from activity 2. go to bed retort answer; reply sharply; answer subvert overturn or overthrow; undermine tractable easily led, taught, or controlled baffle bewilder; perplex cinema movies; motion pictures despise look down upon with contempt ebullient overflowing with enthusiasm exaggerate overstate; go beyond the limits exhort arouse by words; advise strongly; urge expertise specialized skill or technical knowledge finicky excessively concerned with trifles or details; hard to please; fussy gall make sore; irritate mentally; annoy inane lacking significance or sense; pointless indemnify compensate for loss, damage or injury Occident west; countries of America and Europe peruse read; look at fairly attentively scuffle struggle at close quarters in a rough and confused manner; wrestle spurn thrust aside with disdain stipend fixed pay for service surveillance close watch over a person, group, or area tepid lukewarm wager risk (something) on the outcome of a context or uncertain event; a bet wane decrease in power or size; dwindle Chapter 2, sections 1 & 2 from the 9th grade text, Vocab for the College Bound