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Ferguson AP English
Ferguson AP 11 English List 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abate | to lessen; subside |
| Accrue | to be added as a natural increase, said especially of interest on money |
| Acme | the highest point |
| Affluent | wealthy |
| Altruistic | motivated by an unselfish concern for the welfare of others |
| Augment | to increase or enlarge |
| Avarice | greed; cupidity |
| Bauble | cheap toy; trinket |
| Bounty | generosity; generous gift |
| Covetous | greedy; grasping; avaricious |
| Culmination | the highest point |
| Cupidity | greed |
| Dearth | a scarcity or lack |
| Deplete | to empty or use up |
| Destitute | poverty-stricken |
| Egregious | remarkably, bad, flagrant |
| Embezzle | to steal (money entrusted to one's care) |
| Emolument | salary; payment |
| Exigency | pressing needs; demands |
| Filch | to steal (something small or petty); pilfer |
| Frugal | thrifty |
| Garner | to gather up and store |
| Grandiose | 1. imposing; grand 2. pompous and showy |
| Indigent | impoverished; needy |
| Inordinate | excessive |
| Jettison | to throw overboard; to discard |
| Largess | generosity in giving |
| Lucrative | profitable |
| Magnanimous | generous in overlooking injury or insult; noble, not petty or mean |
| Mendicant | begging; asking for alms; a beggar |
| Mercenary | motivated solely by money or payment |
| Modicum | a small amount or portion; a bit |
| Munficent | very generous |
| Myriad | innumerable; countless |
| Nadir | the lowest point |
| Niggardly | stingy; miserly; scanty |
| Paramount | chief; supreme |
| Parsimonious | excessively thrifty or frugal; stingy; niggardly |
| Paucity | lack; fewness; dearth |
| Penury | extreme poverty |
| Pilfer | to steal, esp. small sums or petty objects; filch |
| Plethora | an over-abundance or excess |
| Prodigal | wasteful; extravagant |
| Prodigious | enormous; vast; extraordinary |
| Profuse | given freely and abundantly |
| Remuneration | payment |
| Replete | well filled, sometimes to the extent that one is stuffed or gorged |
| Satiate | to gratify with more than enough, so as to weary or disgust; sate; glut |
| Scintilla | the least trace |
| Surfeit | to fill to excess; to satiate |
| Usury | the lending our of money at interest, sometimes at an excessive rate |
| Vacuous | empty; dull or stupid |
| Wane | to decrease, diminish, or lessen |
| Wastrel | a spendthrift; a profligate |
| Zenith | the highest point; culmination; peak |
Created by:
~Ash~
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