Vocabulary Drill

December 22: Forefather’s Day

affliction · burden

animosity · hatred

beneficence · good will

criteria · decisive factor

diminutive · tiny

discerns · detects

disconsolately · miserably

efficacious · effective

exemplary · excellent

exorbitantly · excessively

faceted · sided

felicitous · fortunate

gourmands · food lovers

imbibed · drank

intangibles · subtleties

peccadilloes · failings

perpetually · continually

proportional · relative

unmitigated · absolute