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WS lists 10-15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ardent | passionate; enthusiastic |
| archetype | an original model or pattern |
| prototype | a first, tentative model that is made but that will be improved in later versions |
| arduous | hard, difficult |
| arisocratic | of noble birth; snobbish. |
| artful | crafty, wily, sly |
| artless | simple, honest aka young children |
| artifice | clever trick; cunning(like artifical) |
| ascendancy | supremacy; domination |
| ascetic | hermitlike; practicing selfdenial... AESTHETIC=artistic |
| assiduous | hardworking, busy, quite diligent |
| assimilate | to take in; to absorb; to learn thoroughly as if you had eaten it |
| assuage | to sooth, pacify; to ease the pain of; to relieve |
| astute | shrewd, keen in judgement |
| attrition | gradual wearing away, weakneing or loss; a natural or expected decrease in numbers or size |
| audacity | boldness; reckless daring; impertinenece |
| impertinence | boldness; reckless daring |
| auspicious | favorable; promising; pointing to a good result |
| austerity | basically poverty. to live in austerity is to live without comforts |
| autocratic | ruling with abosolute authority; extremely bossy |
| autocracy | a system of gov headed by an absolute ruler |
| autonomous | acting independently |
| autonomy | nation that governs self |
| avarice | greeed; excessive love of riches. ANT: generosity, philanthropy |
| avow | to claim, to delcare boldly, to admit. to avow something is to declare or admit something that most ppl are reluctant to declare or admit |
| disavow | to deny, repudiate |
| repudiate | to reject with disapproval or condemnation |
| awry | off course; twisted to one side |
| axiom | a self evident rule or truth; a widely accepted saying |
| banal | unoriginal; ordinary |
| bane | poison; torment; cause of harm |
| baneful | harmful |
| bastion | stronghold; fortress; fortified place |
| beget | to give birth to; to create; to lead to; to cuase |
| belabor | to go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent |
| beleaguer | to surround, to besiege, to harass |
| belie | to give a false impression of, to contradict |
| belittle | to make to seem little; to put someone down |
| belligerent | combative; quarrelsome; waging war. a bully is belligerent |
| bemused | confused; bewildered |
| muse | to think about or ponder things |
| benefactor | one who providdes help, esp in the form of a gift or donation |
| beneficiary | to recieve benefits |
| malefactor | a person who does badt hings |
| benign | gentle, not harmful, kind, mild. more passive than benevolent |
| benevolent | actively kind and generous. diong good deeds |
| benignancy | not causing harm |
| malignant | nasty, evil, full of ill will |
| malign (v) | to say unfairly bad things about a person; to injure that person by telling evil lies about him; slander |
| slander | to say unfailry bad things about a person; malign |
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