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MAT vocabulary
MAT vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abdicate | denounce, discard, abandon |
| aberration | something not typical |
| abnegation | self-denial |
| abrogate | to break (as a treaty of law) |
| abscond | to depart secretly |
| abstemious | sparing or moderate |
| abstruse | hard to understand |
| accolade | award or honor |
| acquiesce | to agree silently |
| acrimonious | biting in feeling or manner |
| addle | to confound |
| adduce | to offer as proof |
| adjure | to command solemnly |
| admonition | warning against oversight |
| adroit | showing skill |
| adulation | excessive praise |
| adumbrate | to imitate; to obscure |
| aestivate/estivate | to spend the summer in an inactive state |
| alacrity | liveliness or eagerness |
| alms | charity |
| ambergris | a product of sperm whales used in the manufacture of perfume |
| amphora | ancient two-handled Greek jar |
| anathema | a ban or curse |
| anneal | to toughen |
| anodyne | a pain reliever |
| aphelion | point in a planet's orbit that is farthest from the sun |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity |
| apogee | point in a satellite's orbit that is farthest from the center of the earth |
| apothegm | a short, instructive pithy saying |
| aquiline | hooked; like an eagle |
| archon | ruler |
| arrogate | to usurp |
| artifice | cleverness |
| atrophy | degeneration |
| attenuate | to weaken |
| austral | southern |
| axiom | a widely accepted saying |
| baleful | harmful |
| bellicose | inclined to start fights |
| benison | spoken blessing |
| bifurcate | forked |
| boreal | northern |
| bromidic | lacking originality |
| brook | to tolerate |
| buccal | pertaining to side of mouth |
| bucolic | pastoral |
| burgeon | to grow |
| burnish | to polish |
| burnoose | a hooded Arabic cloak |
| cabal | group united to plot |
| cacophony | harsh-sounding mixture of words/sounds |
| caduceus | emblem of the medical profession |
| calumny | slander |
| canonical | orthodox |
| capitulate | to cease resisting |
| captious | critical |
| carp | to complain |
| catholic | universal |
| cavil | to nit-pick |
| chaff | waste material from the threshing of wheat |
| chicanery | trickery |
| chimerical | wildly fanciful |
| clemency | mercy |
| cloy | to satiate |
| coalesce | to unite |
| coda | passage that concludes musical or literary work |
| cogent | convincing |
| collusion | secret agreement |
| contumacious | rebellious |
| cooper | a maker of barrels |
| cowl | a hood |
| croupier | collector and payer of bets |
| cynosure | center of interest |
| deciduous | falling off or shedding at a certain season |
| deliquesce | to dissolve |
| depredate | to plunder |
| despot | ruler with absolute power |
| desultory | lacking plan |
| diaphanous | extremely delicate |
| diatribe | a bitter denunciation |
| didactic | intended to teach |
| dilatory | tending to cause delay |
| dilettante | one who is involved in a variety of things, none of them seriously |
| dint | a force |
| discomfit | to confuse |
| dissemble | to pretend |
| djellabah | a loose-fitting gown worn in North Africa |
| doctrinaire | dogmatic |
| doggerel | comic verse |
| doughty | fearless |
| dour | uninviting |
| dray | a vehicle used to haul goods |
| ductile | malleable |
| ebullient | lively |
| ecumenical | having to do with a body of churches/general in application |
| edification | instruction |
| efface | to erase |
| effete | exhausted |
| effluvium | escaping gas |
| effusive | overflowing |
| egress | exit |
| elan | dash; vigorous spirit |
| elegy | a lament for the dead |
| encomium | formal expression of praise |
| enervate | to exhaust |
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