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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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 out-of-date, no longer in useSlide24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