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Animosity The Toad felt nothing but animosity towards rats and mice because his former owner Prince Charles had replaced him with a mouse as a pet Animosity n strong dislike bitter hostility ID: 697192

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Slide1

Vocabulary Unit 8

Flushed AwaySlide2

Animosity

The Toad felt nothing but

animosity

towards rats and mice because his former owner, Prince Charles, had replaced him with a mouse as a pet.Slide3

Animosity

(n.) strong dislike; bitter hostilitySlide4

Apathy

When Le Frog delayed his search for Roddy and Rita by five hours so that he could eat dinner, it suggested a certain

apathy

for his mission.Slide5

Apathy

(n.) a lack of feeling, emotion or interestSlide6

Commend

Sid

commended

Roddy’s home for its comfort and poshness. In fact, he liked it so much he decided to replace Roddy as the house pet.Slide7

Commend

(v.) to praise, express approval; to present as

worthy of

attention; to commit to the care ofSlide8

Compatible

Although they were not very good at their jobs, Spike and Whitey were

compatible

henchmen who worked very well together.Slide9

Compatible

(adj.) able to get along or work well together; capable of use with some other model or systemSlide10

Condolence

When Roddy learned what happened to Rita’s father, he expressed his

condolences

.Slide11

Condolence

(n.) an expression of sympathySlide12

Consecrate

Once his owners leave, Roddy

consecrates

the apartment as his party space.Slide13

Consecrate

(v.) to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purposeSlide14

Decrepit

It wasn’t such a bad thing that Rita’s ship, the

Jammy

Dodger, was destroyed. It was rather decrepit

and in need of repairs.Slide15

Decrepit

(adj.) old and feeble; worn-out, ruinedSlide16

Deride

At first, Roddy

derided

the sewer as a dirty, disgusting place to live.Slide17

Deride

(v.) to ridicule, laugh at with contemptSlide18

Ingenuous

Having no clue that Sid planned to replace him as the pet of the house, Roddy

ingenuously

invited him to

share the giant apartment.Slide19

Ingenous

(adj.) innocent, simple; frank, sincereSlide20

Multifarious

Once in the sewer system, Roddy found a

multifarious

city – nearly as diverse and immense as the city of London above ground.Slide21

Multifarious

(adj.) having great variety, numerous and diverseSlide22

Obsolete

Once he enjoyed the freedom of life in the sewer, Roddy’s old life as a captive pet seemed

obsolete

.Slide23

Obsolete

(adj.) out-of-date, no longer in useSlide24

Omnivorous

Sid was an

omnivorous

rat, eating everything he could find in the apartment – including chocolate cake.Slide25

Omnivorous

(adj.) eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastesSlide26

Parsimonious

Because of the immense size of Rita’s family, their small dinners were rather

parsimonious

.Slide27

Parsimonious

(adj.) stingy, miserly; meager, poor;

smal

lSlide28

Quandary

After Roddy demonstrated that Rita’s “ruby” was, in fact, fake, she was in a

quandary

about how to pay for her family.Slide29

Quandary

(n.) state of perplexity or doubtSlide30

Recalcitrant

Le Toad’s

recalcitrant

henchmen refused to leave until after their five-hour dinner was over.Slide31

Recalcitrant

(adj.) stubbornly disobedient, resisting authoritySlide32

Reprisal

The Frog sought

reprisal

after Rita stole the “ruby” from him. Slide33

Reprisal

(n.) an injury done in return for injurySlide34

Revel

The rodents

reveled

in the idea of a victory for England in the World Cup (they lost, as usual).Slide35

Revel

(v.) to take great pleasure in; (n.) a wild celebrationSlide36

Stultify

Rita and Roddy used liquid nitrogen to

stultify

some of

the villains

. Slide37

Stultify

(v.) to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a dulling effect onSlide38

Suave

Roddy looked far more

suave

in his tuxedo than either his bathrobe or his Wolverine costume.Slide39

Suave

(adj.) smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses