Vocab 2

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(adj.) skillful; expert in the use of hands or mind.
Adroit
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(adj.) peaceable, friendly.
Amicable
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(adj.) having deep-seated distaste; opposed, unwilling.
Averse
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(adj.) given to fighting; warlike; combative, aggressive. (n.) one at war, one engaged in war.
Belligerent
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(adj.) kindly, charitable.
Benevolent
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(adj.) hasty; not thorough.
Cursory
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(n.) treachery, deceitfulness.
Duplicity
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(v.) to praise extravagantly.
Extol
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(adj.) possible, able to be done.
Feasible
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(n.) a wry face, facial expression. (v.) to make a wry face.
Grimace
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(n.) large scale destruction; a vast slaughter; a burnt offering.
Holocaust
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(adj.) unaffected by; no admittance of passage or entrance.
Impervious
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(n.) a moving force, impulse, stimulus.
Impetus
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(n.) danger.
Jeopardy
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(adj.) extremely careful; particular about details.
Meticulous
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(n.) a longing for something past; homesickness.
Nostalgia
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(n.) the purest essence or form of something; the most typical answer.
Quintessence
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(v.) to move backward; to return to an earlier condition.
Retrogress
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(v.) to examine closely.
Scrutinize
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(adj.) lukewarm, unenthusiastic; marked by a lack a of interest.
Tepid
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