Unit 2 Set B

• amicable


  (adj.) peaceable, friendly
• averse


  (adj.) having a deep-seated distaste; opposed, unwilling
• belligerent


  (adj.) given to fighting, warlike; combative, aggressive; (n.) one at war, one engaged in war
• extol


  (v.) to praise extravagantly
• impervious


  (adj.) not affected or hurt by; admitting of no passage or entrance
• impetus


  (n.) a moving force, impulse, stimulus
• jeopardy


  (n.) danger
• nostalgia


  (n.) a longing for something past; homesickness
• retrogress


  (v.) to move backwards; to return to an earlier condition
• tepid


  (adj.) lukewarm; unenthusiastic, marked by an absence of interest