Vocabulary for test 1-1

indiscriminate
/indiskrimmint/
• adjective done or acting at random or without careful judgement.
— DERIVATIVES indiscriminately adverb indiscriminateness noun
exacerbate
/igzassrbayt/
• verb make (something bad) worse.
— DERIVATIVES exacerbation noun.
— ORIGIN Latin exacerbare ‘make harsh’.
scarce
• adjective 1 (of a resource) insufficient for the demand. 2 rarely found.
— PHRASES make oneself scarce informal leave a place, especially so as to avoid a difficult situation.
— DERIVATIVES scarcity noun.
— ORIGIN Old French escars, from a Romance word meaning ‘selected’.
proliferate
/prliffrayt/
• verb reproduce rapidly; increase rapidly in number.
— DERIVATIVES proliferation noun proliferative adjective.
— ORIGIN from Latin prolificus (see PROLIFIC).
rehabilitate
• verb 1 restore to health or normal life by training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness. 2 restore the standing or reputation of. 3 restore to a former condition.
— DERIVATIVES rehabilitation noun rehabilitative adjective.
— ORIGIN Latin rehabilitare, from habilitare ‘make able’.