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LA 1-2
VOCAB LESSONS 1-4
Question | Answer |
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Adjunct | a subordinate,an assistant |
admonish | to warn ,to caution |
advocate | to recommend,to speak in favor of |
affiliate | an associate, partener |
affliction | anything causing great suffering |
aghast | feeling great dismay or horror |
alacrity | livelines,willingness,eagerness |
alienate | to make others unfriendly toward you |
allude | to hint at, to refer to indirectly |
aloof | reserved,distant |
beget | to produce,to be parent of |
begrudge | to resent another's success,to give reluctant |
belated | delayed |
beleaguer | to harass |
benediction | a blessing |
beneficiary | one who recevies benefits |
berate | to scold or rubuke severely and at length |
berserk | in a state of wiolent or destructive rage |
bias | a prejudiced view |
bibliophile | a lover of books |
amalgamate | to combine |
ambidextrous | equally skillful with either hand |
anachronism | somthing or someone out of its proper time |
animate | to give life or motion to |
anthropomorphic | attributing human characteristics or qualities objects, animals or gods |
antiquated | no longer used or useful very old |
APHORISM | a concise statement of the ruth or principle |
aplomb | self confidence |
bandy | to give and take quickly in conversation to toss back and forth |
bane | to cause of ruin harm or distress death |
bilk | to cheat |
blatant | offensively noisy |
blight | anything that destroys |
cache | hidding place |
cadaverouse | of or like a corpse |
calumny | a false and malicious accusation |
careen | to lean sideways |
caricature | an exaggerateed portrayal of one's features |
carnage | a bloody and extensive slaughter |
carp | to complain |