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WS lists 5-10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ambivalent | undecideed;having opposed feelings simultaneously |
| amenity | pleasentness; attracive or comfortablr fearure |
| amenable | obedient; willing to give into the wishes of another; agreeable |
| amnesty | an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy. an official forgetting given to a group of people |
| amorous | feeling loving, esp in a sexual sense; relating to love |
| amorphous | shapeless, without a regular or stable shape |
| anachronism | something out of place in time or history, an incongruity |
| anarchy | absence of gov or control; lawlessness; disorderMONARCHY: a gov headed by a king or a queen aka one leaderANARCHY: no leader |
| animosity | resentment; hositility |
| anomaly | an aberration; an irregularity; a deviation but its neutral |
| antipathy | firm dislike antipathies: things i dont like |
| antithesis | the drect opposite |
| apartheid | the abhorrent policy of racila segregation and oppression in the republic of south aftirca |
| anguish | agonizing pain |
| aphorism | a brieg, often witty saying; a proverb |
| apocalypse | a prophetic revelation, especially one concerning the end of the world |
| apocalyptic | to make such predictions of the end of the world or basc to be deeeply pessimistic |
| apocryphal | of dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurious |
| spurious | of dubious authenticity; fictitious; apocryphal |
| apotheosis | elevation to divine status;t he perfect example of somethingsome ppl think the Corvette is the apotheosis of american car making. they think its the ideal. |
| appease | to soothe; to pacify by giving into |
| appreciate | to increase in value |
| depreciate | to decrase in value |
| apprehensive | worried; anxious |
| misapprehension | a misunderstanding |
| approbation | approval; praise |
| disapprobation | disapproval |
| appropriate (v) | to take without permission; to set aside for particular use |
| appropriate (adj) | suitable or fitting for a particular purpose |
| appropriation | authorization for congress to set aside money for somehitng;an act of a legislature authorizing money to be paid from the treasury for a specified use. |
| misappropriate | when an elected official takes money that was supposed to be spent on submarines and spends it on a Rolls-Royce |
| expropriates | useing offical authority to take possession of your property |
| aptitude | capacity for learning; natural ability |
| ineptitude | being without skill; maladroit; |
| inept | generally awkward or clumsy; haplessly incompetent |
| arbiter | one who decides; a judge |
| arbitration | a formal meeting to settle a dispute |
| arbitrary | random, capricious |
| capricious | random |
| arcane | mysterious, konwn only to a select few |
| archaic | extremely old, ancient, outdated |
| abject | hopeless, extremely sad and servile; defeatedan abject person is one who is crushed and without hope aka a slave"abject poverty"--hopeless, desperate proverty |
| abate | to reduce |
| abnegate | to deny oneself things; to reject; to renounce |
| absolve | to forgive or free from blame; to free from sin; to free from obligation; the act of absolving is called absolution |
| allege | to assert without proof |
| aggregate | a sum total |
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