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Word List 1
ELA Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abatement | The act or process of abating |
| Abbreviate | To make shorter; To shorten a word or phrase |
| Aberrrant | Turning away from what is right; Deviating from what is normal |
| Aberration | Being Aberrant |
| Abet | To incite, encourage, urge and help on |
| Abeyance | Temporary suspension of an activity |
| Abhor | To detest; Hate |
| Ablaze | Being on fire; Radiant with light or emotion |
| Abolition | The state of being abolished; Prohibition |
| Abrasive | Tending to abrade |
| Abreast | Side by side |
| Abridge | To reduce in scope or extent; to condense |
| Absent | To keep oneself away; Not present |
| Abstain | To refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| Abstract | Summary; Disassociated from any specific instance |
| Abstruse | Hard to understand; Recondite |
| Absurd | Ridiculously unreasonable; Ludicrous |
| Abut | To border upon |
| Abysmal | Bottomless; Unfathomable; Wretched; Immeasurably bad |
| Academic | Associated with an academy or school; Theoretical |
| Accede | To give assent; Consent |
| Accelerate | To increase the speed; To develop more quickly |
| Accentuate | To emphasize; To pronounce with an accent or stress |
| Accessible | Easy to approach; Open to the influence of |
| Accidental | Occurring unexpectedly or by chance |
| Accommodate | To make fit, suitable, or congruous; To make room for |
| Accompany | To walk with somebody as a companion |
| Accomplice | Associate; Partner in a crime |
| Accredit | To give official authorization to or approval of |
| Accuracy | Precision; Exactness |
| Accuse | To blame |
| Accustom | To make familiar with something through use or experience |
| Acerbic | Bitter; Sharp; Harsh |
| Acidic | Acid |
| Acknowledge | To recognize as genuine or valid; To express gratitude |
| Acolyte | One who assists the celebrant in the performance of liturgical rites |
| Acoustic | Having to do with hearing or sound |
| Acquiescence | The act of acquiescing |
| Acquiescent | Inclined to acquiesce |
| Acrimonious | Caustic, Biting, or Rancorous |
| Acrimony | Asperity |
| Activate | To make active or more active |
| Actuate | To motivate; Activate |
| Acute | Keen; Shrewd; Sensitive; Characterized by sharpness or severity |
| Adamant | Unyielding; Inflexible; Too hard to be broken |
| Adaptability | Capable of being or becoming adapted |
| Adaptable | Able to adjust oneself to new circumstances; Capable of being adapted |
| Adaptive | Showing or having a capacity for or tendency toward adaptation |
| Addict | To be an addict; Devote oneself to something habitually |
| Address | To tackle something; To deliver a formal speech to; A series of number indicating an estate |
| Adept | Highly skilled; Expert |
| Adequate | Sufficient |
| Adhere | To stick fast; Stay attached |
| Adhesive | Tending to adhere or cause adherence; An adhesive substance |
| Admonish | To reprove mildly; To warn; Advise |
| Adopt | To take up and practice or use; To accept formally and put into affect; To officially take up as family or kin |
| Adoration | The act of adoring |
| Adore | To worship as divine; To love greatly |
| Adorn | To decorate ; Beautify |
| Adulation | Excessive or slavish admiration of flattery |
| Adulatory | Having excessive or slavish admiration of flattery |
| Adumbrate | To foreshadow in a vague way |
| Advantage | Benefit |
| Adventurous | Disposed to seek adventure; Characterized by unknown dangers and risks |
| Adversary | One that contends with, opposes, or resists; Having or involving antagonistic parties or opposing interests |
| Adversity | A state, condition, or instance of serious or continued difficulty or adverse fortune |
| Advertise | To call public attention to arouse a desire to buy or patronize; To make publicly and generally known |
| Advocacy | The act or process of advocating |
| Aesthetic | Relating to aesthetics or the beautiful |
| Aesthetically | According to aesthetics or its principles; In an aesthetic manner |
| Affable | Gentle; Amiable; Pleasant and easy to approach or talk to |
| Affection | Fond or tender feeling |
| Affectionate | Having affection or warm regard |
| Affective | Relating to, arising from, or influencing feelings or emotions; Expressing emotion |
| Affinity | A mutual attraction between a man and a woman; Close relationship |
| Affirmation | The act of affirming or the state of being affirmed; Assertion |
| Afflict | To cause persistent pain or suffering |
| Affluent | Rich |
| Affordable | Being able to buy something |
| Affront | To offend |
| Aggrandize | To make greater or more powerful; To praise highly |
| Aggravate | To make worse; Intensify |
| Aggressive | Militant; Asseritve; Full of enterprise and initiative |
| Aghast | Feeling great horror or dismay; Terrified |
| Agility | The quality or state of being agile |
| Agitate | To argue publicly or campaign for/against something; To cause anxiety |
| Agitation | Anxiety; Public argument or action for social or political change |
| Agony | Very great mental or physical pain |
| Agoraphobic | Fearing and avoiding places or situations that might cause panic and feelings of being trapped, helpless or embarrassed |
| Agrarian | Of land |
| Airborne | Transported or carried by the air; Trained for deployment by air and specially by parachute |
| Akin | Related by blood; Essentially similar, related or compatible |
| Aleinate | To estrange; Cause to become unfriendly or indifferent |
| Alienation | A withdrawing or separation of a person |
| Allegiance | Loyalty or devotion to a cause or a person |
| Allegory | Fable |
| Allot | To assign as a share or portion; To distribute by or as if by lot |
| Alloy | Substance composed of two or more metals |
| Allude | To refer in an indirect way |
| Allure | To entice by charm or attraction |
| Allusion | An implied or indirect reference, especially in literature |
| Allusive | Containing allusions |
| Ally | To associate; One that is associated with another |
| Aloof | Removed or distant either physically or emotionally |
| Also-Ran | A contestant that does not win; One that is of little importance |
| Alternate alternate | Occurring or succeeding by turns; To perform by turns or in succession; One that substitutes for or alternates with another |
| Alternative | Alternate; Offering or expressing a choice |
| Altruism | Selflessness |
| Amalgam | A combination or mixture |
| Amateur | One who engages in something as a pastime rather than as a profession |
| Amaze | To fill with wonder |
| Ambidextrous | Very skillful or versatile |
| Ambiguity | An ambiguous word or expression; Uncertainty |
| Ambiguous | Not clear; Uncertain; Vague |
| Ambitious | Having a desire to achieve a particular goal |
| Ambivalent | Having simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feeling toward something |
| Amble | To saunter |
| Ameliorate | To improve |
| Amenable | Willing; Submissive |
| Amend | To put right; To change or modify for the better |
| Amendment | A correction of errors, faults; A Revision made in a bill, law, constitution, etc. |
| Amiability | The state of being friendly |
| Amicable | Friendly in feeling; Showing good will |
| Amicably | In an amicable manner |
| Amorphous | Without definite form; Shapeless |
| Anachronistic | An error in chronology |
| Anaerobic | Of, relating to, or being activity in which the body incurs an oxygen debt |
| Analogous | Comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes the nature of the things clearer. |
| Anarchy | Absence of government; Political disorder |
| Anathema | One that is cursed; A formal ecclesiastical ban; curse |
| Anatomical | Of, or relating to anatomy |
| Ancestor | One from whom a person is descended |
| Ancestral | Of, relating to, or inherited from an ancestor |
| Anecdotal | Of, relating to, or consisting of anecdotes |
| Angular | Lacking grace or smoothness; Awkward; Having angles; Thin and bony |
| Animated | Full of vigor and spirit |
| Animosity | A feeling of strong dislike or hatred |
| Annex | To obtain or take for oneself; To attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| Annotate | To provide critical or explanatory notes |
| Anomalous | Inconsistent with what is usual, normal, or expected; Marked by incongruity or contradiction |
| Anomaly | Deviation from common rule; Something anomalous |
| Antagonism | Active hostility or opposition |
| Antagonistic | Marked by or resulting from antagonism |
| Antagonize | To arouse hostility; Show opposition |
| Antecedent | A preceding event, condition, or cause; A person's ancestors or family and social background; Preceding in time and order |
| Antedate | To assign to a date prior to that of actual occurrence |
| Anterior | Previous; Earlier |
| Antibiotic | Of, or relating to antibiotics; Substance that can destroy or prevent the growth of bacteria |
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