This document provides definitions for 20 vocabulary words: animosity, apathy, apprehensive, commend, compatible, condolence, consecrate, decrepit, deride, ingenuous, multifarious, obsolete, omnivorous, parsimonious, quandary, recalcitrant, reprisal, revel, stultify, and suave.

1. Unit 8, Level E Vocabulary

2. Strong dislike; bitter hostility Animosity (n.)

3. A lack of feeling, emotion or interest Apathy (n.)

4. Fearful or anxious, especially about the future; worried Apprehensive (adj.)

5. To praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention; to commit to the care of Commend (v.)

6. Able to get along or work well together; capable of use with some other model or system Compatible (adj.)

7. An expression of sympathy Condolence (n.)

8. To make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose; devote, dedicate Consecrate (v.)

9. Old an feeble; worn-out, ruined Decrepit (adj.)

10. To ridicule, laugh at with contempt Deride (v.)

11. Innocent, simple; frank, sincere Ingenuous (adj.)

12. Having great variety; numerous and diverse Multifarious (adj.)

13. Out-of-date, no longer in use Obsolete (adj.)

14. Eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes Omnivorous (adj.)

15. Stingy miserly; meager, poor, small; frugal Parsimonious (adj.)

16. A state of perplexity or doubt; confusion Quandary (n.)

17. Stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority Recalcitrant (adj.)

18. An injury done in return for injury; retaliation Reprisal (n.)

19. To take great pleasure in; relish Revel (v.)

20. To make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a dulling effect on; smother Stultify (v.)

21. Smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses Suave (adj.)