Adroit: Skillful and adept under pressing conditions
Amicable: characterized by or exhibiting friendliness or goodwill; friendly
Averse: Having a feeling of opposition, distaste, or aversion; strongly disinclined
Belligerent: hostile or aggressive
Benevolent: characterized by or suggestive of doing good
The man was benevolent because he donated to St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
Cursory: performed with haste and scant attention to detail
When I do last minute projects, they do not always appear cursory.
Duplicity: deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech
Sometimes teachers show a sense of duplicity.
Extol: to praise highly; exalt
The teacher extolled the student for his excellent poetry.
Feasible: capable of being accomplished or brought about; possible
Grimace: a sharp contortion of the face expressive of pain, contempt, or disgust
When the runner pulled a muscle in the cool down he had a look of grimace on his face.
What Adolf Hitler did to trigger WW2 was a Holocaust.
Impervious: incapable of being affected
Impetus: an impelling force; an impulse
When I saw the finish line I had an impetus to sprint to the end.
Jeopardy: risk of loss or injury; peril or danger
By deciding to jump off the cliff with a loose parachute, the man put his life in jeopardy.
Meticulous: extremely careful or precise
In order to be a Neurosurgeon, you need to know how to be meticulous about what you do.
Nostalgia: a bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past
While listening to Frank Ocean, I felt a feeling of nostalgia.
Quintessence: the pure highly concentrated essence of a thing
Retrogress: to return to an earlier, inferior, or less complex condition
Scrutinize: to examine or observe with great care; inspect critically
Criminal investigators must be able to scrutinize excellently in order to solve a crime.
Tepid: moderately warm' lukewarm
When I shower, I feel happy when the water is tepid.
A lawyer must be very adroit to be successful.
On the first day of school, teachers make
themselves appear amicable.
I felt averse looking at the shoes my mom got chose for
me.
The mother cat became belligerent when the kids came too close to
her kittens.
The man was benevolent because he donated to St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
Cursory: performed with haste and scant attention to detail
When I do last minute projects, they do not always appear cursory.
Duplicity: deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech
Sometimes teachers show a sense of duplicity.
Extol: to praise highly; exalt
The teacher extolled the student for his excellent poetry.
Feasible: capable of being accomplished or brought about; possible
The matter of running a 5k in 16:00 is feasible.
When the runner pulled a muscle in the cool down he had a look of grimace on his face.
What Adolf Hitler did to trigger WW2 was a Holocaust.
Impervious: incapable of being affected
A dumb theory is to think that if you shoot
yourself with small arms multiple times you will become impervious to bullets from larger arms.
When I saw the finish line I had an impetus to sprint to the end.
Jeopardy: risk of loss or injury; peril or danger
By deciding to jump off the cliff with a loose parachute, the man put his life in jeopardy.
Meticulous: extremely careful or precise
In order to be a Neurosurgeon, you need to know how to be meticulous about what you do.
Nostalgia: a bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past
While listening to Frank Ocean, I felt a feeling of nostalgia.
Quintessence: the pure highly concentrated essence of a thing
Steve Prefontaine is the quintessence of a
legendary distance runner.
Sometimes I wish I could retrogress back to when I
was in kindergarten.
Criminal investigators must be able to scrutinize excellently in order to solve a crime.
Tepid: moderately warm' lukewarm
When I shower, I feel happy when the water is tepid.
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