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WS quick quiz 11-15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| archetype | An original model or pattern |
| ardent | Passionate |
| arduous | Hard; difficult |
| aristocratic | Of noble birth; snobbish |
| artful | Wily; sly |
| artifice | A clever trick; cunning |
| ascendancy | Supremacy; domination |
| ascetic | Hermitlike; practicing self-denial |
| assiduous | Hardworking; busy; quite diligent |
| assimilate | To take in; to absorb; to learn thoroughly |
| assuage | To soothe; to pacify; to ease the pain of; to relieve |
| astute | Shrewd; keen in judgment |
| attrition | Gradual wearing away, weakening, or loss; a natural or expected decrease in numbers of size |
| audacity | Boldness; reckless daring; impertinence |
| augment | To make bigger; to add to; to increase |
| auspicious | Favorable; promising; pointing to a good result |
| austere | Unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess |
| autocratic | Ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy |
| autonomous | Acting independently |
| avarice | Greed; excessive love of riches |
| avow | To claim; to declare boldly; to admit |
| avuncular | Like an uncle, especially a nice uncle |
| awry | Off course; twisted to one side |
| axiom | Self-evident rule or truth; a widely accepted saying |
| banal | Unoriginal; ordinary |
| bane | Poison; torment; cause of harm |
| bastion | Stronghold; fortress; fortified place |
| beget | To give birth to; to create; to lead to; to cause |
| 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 |
| bemused | Confused; bewildered |
| benefactor | One who provides help, especially in the form of a gift or donation |
| benevolent | Generous; kind; doing good deeds |
| benign | Gentle; not harmful; kind; mild |