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LA 1-2
VOCAB LESSONS 1-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |