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1st semester vocab

eng 1 acc.

QuestionAnswer
abduct kidnap
aberration abnormality
abhor horrify
abominable monstrous
accessible easily approached or entered
affluence wealth
amenable agreeable
amiable friendly
analogy comparison
assuage persuade
austerity harshness
avow swear
barbarism primitive behavior
barrister lawyer
barter trade
beguiled influenced by trickery
benevolence generosity
bequeath pass down
biographical telling about someone's life
caliber degree of status
callous rough
candidly free from bias
civility politeness
cloister to seclude or a seclusion
cogently having power to compel
cognizance awareness, realization
curtail shorten
debris wreckage
deduce infer
defile pollute
defraud take advantage of
delegate representative
denounce put down
despot tyrant
destitute poor, deprived
diversity variety
elegy poem of mourning
elite best
emaciated gaunt
embellish add endearments, stretch
emulate imitate
encroach intrude
ensuing trying to obtain a result
equable calm
fallacy lie, falsehood
falter hesitate
feign fake
fervent excited
fester to generate pus
fulminations long speech
garrulous talkative
gaudy showy
gaunt emaciated
haggard tired looking
hapless unfortunate
haven safe place
hiatus break
illustrious eminent, well-known
imbibe drink
immaterial surplus, not important
incise cut into
incomprehensible impossible to fathom
incontrovertible undeniable
insidious tricky
intimidate to make timid
jocund cheerful
lackadaisical lazy
lacaonic brief
larceny theft
legitimate legal
lethargy lazy
libation drink
malice evilness
malinger shirk
meander walk slowly
menagerie strange collection of animals or things
negligent lax
notorious infamous
officious meddlesome
omnipotent all knowing
opportune at an advantageous time
pallid pale, sallow
paroxysm violent outburst
parricide murder of the father or other close relative
patronize talk to condescendingly
paucity scarcity
portend warn, forecast
profound deep
quandary doubt
reprimand scold or scolding
sovereign monarch
unprecedented unpredictable
variant change
zealous fervent
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