Vocab #7

1. Adj: having ”mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses of action

2. Adj: Psychology. of or pertaining to the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions.

1. Adj: doing good or causing good to be done; conferring benefits; kindly in action or purpose.

1. Adj: engaged to be married

2. Noun: the person to whom one is engaged

1. Verb: to arrange for the marriage of; affiance (usually used in passive constructions)

2. Verb: Archaic. to promise to marry

1. Adj: of or pertaining to a condition present at birth, whether inherited or caused by the environment,especially the uterine environment.

2. Adj: having by nature a specified character

1. Noun: majority of opinion

2. Noun: general agreement or concord; harmony

1. Adj: incapable of being terminated; unending

2. Adj: monotonously or annoyingly protracted or continued; unceasing; incessant

3. Adj: having no limits

1. Adj: resolutely fearless; dauntless

1. Adj: distasteful, objectionable, or offensive

2. Adj: making opposition; averse

3. Adj: opposed or contrary, as in native or character

1. Adj: of a sickly, yellowish color

2. Verb: to make sallow

1. Noun: a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.

2. Noun: a body of troops involved in such a movement

3. Noun: the flying of an airplane on a combat mission

4. Verb: to go on a sortie; sally forth

1. Adj: utterly unyieldingly in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings, etc.

2. Adj: too hard to cut, break, or pierce

3. Noun: any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance

4. Noun: a legendary stone of impenetrable  hardness, formerly sometimes identified with the diamond.

1. Verb: to make hostile or unfriendly; make an   enemy or antagonist of

2. Verb: to act in opposition to; oppose

3. Verb: to act antagonistically

1. Noun: documents or records relating to the  activities, business dealings, etc., of a person,family, corporation, association, community, or nation.

2. Noun: a place where public records or other historical documents are kept

3. Noun: any extensive record or collection of data

4. Noun: a computer file containing one or more compressed files.

5. Verb: to place or store in an archive

6. Verb: to compress (computer files) and store them in a single file

1. Noun: an absolute ruler, especially a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government as by inherent right, not subject to restrictions.

2. Noun: a person invested with or claiming to  exercise absolute authority.

3. Noun: a person who behaves in an  authoritarian manner; a domineering person.

1. Adj: given to faction; dissentious

1. Adj: argumentative

2. Adj: pertaining to or proceeding from faction

1. Verb: to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify

2. Verb: to disappoint or thwart (a person)

1. Adj: leaving no opportunity for denial or  refusal; imperative

2. Adj: imperious or dictatorial

3. Adj: positive or assertive in speech, tone, manner, etc.

4. Adj: that precludes or does not admit of  debate, question, etc.

1. Verb: to defer action; delay

2. Verb: to put off till another day or time; defer; delay

1. Adj: springing back; rebounding

2. Adj: returning to the original form or position after being bent, compressed, or stretched.

3. Adj: recovering readily from illness,  depression, adversity, or the like; buoyant.

1. Noun: an act or instance of supplicating; humble prayer, entreaty, or petition