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Word Smart - "A"
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abash | (v) to make ashamed; to embarass |
| abate | (v) to reduce |
| abdicate | (v) to step down from a position of power or responsibility |
| aberration | (n) something not typical; a deviation from the standard 탈선, 정신이상 |
| abhor | (v) to detest |
| abject | (adj) hopeless; extremely sad and servile; defeated |
| abnegate | (v) to deny oneself things; to reject; to renounce |
| abortive | (adj) unsuccessful |
| abridge | (v) to shorten; to condense |
| absolute | (adj) total; unlimited |
| absolve | (v) to forgive or free from blame; to free from sin; to free from an obligation |
| abstinent | (adj) abstaining; voluntarily not doing something, especially something pleasant that is bad for you or has a bad reputation |
| abstract | (adj) ttheoretical; impersonal |
| abstruse | (adj) hard to understand |
| abysmal | (adj) extremely hopeless or wretched; bottomless |
| accolade | (n) an award; an honor |
| accost | (v) to approach and speak to someone aggressively |
| acerbic | (adj) sour; severe; like acid in temper, mood, or tone |
| acquiesce | (v) to comply passively; to accept; to assent; to agree |
| acrid | (adj) harshly pungent; bitter |
| acrimonious | (adj) full of spite; bitter; nasty |
| acumen | (n) keenness of judgment; mental sharpness |
| acute | (adj) sharp; shrewd |
| adamant | (adj) stubborn; unyielding; completely inflexible |
| address | (v) to speak to; to direct one's attention to |
| adherent | (n) follower; supporter; believer |
| admonish | (v) to scold gently; to warn |
| adroit | (adj) skillful; dexterous; clever; shrewd; socially at ease |
| adulation | (n) wild or excessive admiration; flattery |
| adulterate | (v) to contaminate; to make impure |
| adverse | (adj) unfavorable; antagonistic |
| aesthetic | (adj) having to do with artistic beauty; artistic |
| affable | (adj) easy to talk to; friendly |
| affectation | (n) unnatural or artificial behavior, usually intended to impress |
| affinity | (n) sympathy; attraction; kinship; similarity |
| affluent | (adj) rich; prosperous |
| agenda | (n) program; the things to be done |
| aggregate | (n) sum total; a collection of separate things mixed together |
| agnostic | (n) one who believes that the existence of a god can be neither proven nor disproven |
| agrarian | (adj) relating to land; relating to the management or farming of land |
| alacrity | (n) cheerful eagerness or readiness to respond |
| allege | (v) to assert without proof |
| alleviate | (v) to relieve, usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable; to lessen |
| allocate | (v) to distribute; to assign; to allot |
| alloy | (n) a combination of two or more things, usually metals |
| allusion | (n) an indirect reference (often to a literary work); a hint |
| aloof | (adj) uninvolved; standing off; keeping one's distance |
| altruism | (n) selflessness; generosity; devotion to the interests of others |
| ambience | (n) atmosphere; mood; feeling |
| ambiguous | (adj) unclear in meaning; confusing; capable of being interpreted in different ways |
| ambivalent | (adj) undecided; having opposed feelings simultaneously |
| ameliorate | (v) to make better or more tolerable |
| amenable | (adj) obedient; willing to give in to the wishes of another; agreeable |
| amenity | (n) pleasantness; attractive or comfortable feature |
| amiable | (adj) friendly; agreeable |
| amnesty | (n) an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy |
| amoral | (adj) lacking a sense of right and wrong; neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral; without moral feelings |
| amorous | (adj) feeling loving, especially in a sexual sense; in love; relating to love |
| amorphous | (adj) shapeless; without a regular or stable shape |
| anachronism | (n) something out of place in time or history; an incongruity |
| analogy | (n) a comparison of one thing to another; similarity |
| anarchy | (n) absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder |
| anecdote | (n) a short account of a humorous or revealing incident |
| anguish | (n) agonizing physical or mental pain |
| animostiy | (n) resentment; hostility; ill will |
| anomaly | (n) an aberration; an irregularity; a deviation |
| antecedent | (n) someone or something that went before; something that provides a model for something that came after it |
| antipathy | (n) firm dislike; a dislike |
| antithesis | (n) the direct opposite |
| apartheid | (n) the former policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Republic of South Africa [Nelson Mandela] |
| apathy | (n) lack of interest; lack of feeling |
| aphorism | (n) a brief, often witty saying; a proverb |
| apocalypse | (n) a prophetic revelation, especially one concerning the end of the world |
| apocryphal | (n) of dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurious |
| apotheosis | (n) elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something |
| appease | (v) to soothe; to pacify by giving in to |
| appreciate | (v) to increase in value |
| apprehensive | (adj) worried; anxious |
| approbation | (n) approval; praise |
| appropriate | (v) to take without permission; to set aside for a particular use |
| aptitude | (n) capacity for learning; natural ability |
| arbiter | (n) one who decides; a judge |
| arbitrary | (adj) random; capricious |
| arcane | (adj) mysterious; known only to a select few |
| archaic | (adj) extremely old; ancient; outdated |
| archetype | (n) an original model or pattern |
| ardent | (adj) passionate; enthusiastic |
| arduous | (adj) hard; difficult |
| aristocratic | (adj) of noble birth; snobbish |
| artful | (adj) crafty; wily; sly |
| artifice | (n) a clever trick; cunning |
| ascendancy | (n) supremacy; domination |
| ascetic | (adj) hermitlike; practicing self-denial |
| assiduous | (adj) hardworking; busy; quite diligent |
| assimilate | (v) to take in; to absorb; to learn thoroughly |
| assuage | (v) to soothe; to pacify; to ease the pain of; to relieve |
| astute | (adj) shrewd; keen in judgment |
| atheist | (n) one who does not believe in the existence of any god or divine being |
| attrition | (n) gradual wearing away, weakening, or loss; a natural or expected decrease in numbers or size |
| audacity | (n) boldness; reckless daring; impertinence |
| augment | (v) to make bigger; to add to; to increase |
| auspicious | (adj) favorable; promising; pointing to a good result |
| austere | (adj) unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess |
| autocratic | (adj) ruling with absolute authority; extremly bossy |
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