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Advanced Vocab- 8/11
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| audit | formal financial investigation |
| auditory | related to hearing |
| augment | to expand |
| augury | prophecy, prediction of events |
| august | dignified, inspiring |
| auspicious | favorable |
| austere | stern, unadorned |
| authoritarian | extremely strict |
| autism | mental disorder characterized by self-absorption |
| autocrat | dictator |
| autonomous | independent |
| auxiliary | supplementary, reserve |
| avant garde | leadership of new movements |
| avarice | greed |
| avatar | an incarnation, exemplar, archetype |
| aver | to affirm |
| aversion | intense dislike |
| avert | to turn away, prevent |
| avian | related to birds |
| avow | to declare openly |
| awry | askew, twisted |
| axiom | statement accepted as true as a basis for inference |
| baleful | having evil intentions |
| balk | to stop short, hestitate |
| ballad | folk song, narrative poem |
| balm | soothing influence |
| banal | trite, overly common |
| bane | something causing death, destruction |
| banter | playful converstion |
| bard | declaimer of heroic verse, national poet |
| bastion | fortification |
| beguile | to deceive, mislead, charm |
| behemoth | huge creature |
| behold | to see |
| belabor | to insist upon repeatedly |
| beleaguer | to harass, plague |
| belfry | bell tower |
| belie | to misrepresent, expose as false |