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vocab list from the vocab book
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abash | to make ashamed; to embarrass |
| abate | to subside; to reduce |
| abdicate | to step down from a position of power or responsibility |
| aberration | sth not typical, a deviation from the standard |
| abhor | to hate very, very much; to detest |
| abject | hopeless; extremely sad & servile; defeated |
| abnegate | to deny oneself things; to reject; to renounce |
| abortive | unsuccessful |
| abridge | to shorten; to condense |
| absolute | total, unlimited |
| absolve | to forgive or free from blame; to free from sin; to free from an obligation |
| abstinent | self-restraint |
| abysmal | extremely hopeless or wretched; bottomless |
| accolade | an award; an honor |
| accost | to approach & speak to sb aggressively |
| abstruse | hard to understand |
| acerbic | sour; severe; like acid in temper, mood, or tone |
| acquiesce | to comply passively; to accept; to assent; to agree |
| acrid | harshly pungent; bitter |
| acrimonious | full of spite; bitter; nasty |
| acumen | keenness of judgment; mental sharpness |
| acute | sharp; shrewd |
| adamant | stubborn; unyielding; completely inflexible |
| address | to speak to; to direct one's attention to |
| adherent | follower; supporter; believer |
| admonish | to scold gently; to warn |
| adroit | skillful; dexterous; clever; shrewd; socially at ease |
| adulation | wild or excessive admiration; flattery |
| adulterate | to contaminate; to make impure |
| adverse | unfavorable; antagonistic |
| averse | opposed to |
| aesthetic | having to do with artistic beauty |
| affable | easy to talk to; friendly |
| affectation | unnatural or artificial behavior, usually intended to impress |
| affinity | sympathy; attraction; kinship; similarity |
| affluent | rich; prosperous |
| agenda | program; the things to be done |
| aggregate (n.) | sum total; a collection of separate things mixed together |
| agnostic | one who believes that the existence of a god can be neither proven nor disproven |
| agrarian | relating to land; relating to the management of farming of land |
| alacrity | cheerful eagerness or readiness to respond |
| allege | to assert without proof |
| alleviate | to relieve, usually temporarily or incompletely; to lessen; to make bearable |
| allocate | to distribute; to assign; to allot |
| alloy | a combination of two or more things, usually metals |
| allusion | an indirect reference (often to a literary work); a hint |
| aloof | uninvolved; standing off; keeping one's distance (i.e. standoffish) |
| altruism | selflessness; generosity; devotion to the interests of others |
| ambiance/ambience | atmosphere; mood; feeling |
| ambiguous | unclear in meaning; confusing |
| ambivalent | undecided; having opposed feelings simultaneously |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| amenable | obedient; willing to give in to the wishes of another; agreeable |
| amenity | pleasantness; attractive or comfortable feature |
| amiable | friendly; agreeable |
| amnesty | an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy |
| amoral | lacking a sense of right and wrong, neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral; without moral feelings |
| amorous | feeling loving, esp. in a sexual sense; in love; relating to love |
| amorphous | shapeless; without a regular or stable shape; bloblike |
| anachronism | something out of place in time or history; an incongruity |
| analogy | a comparison of one thing to another; similarity |
| anecdote | a short account of a humorous or revealing incident |
| anguish | agonizing physical or mental pain |
| animosity | resentment; hostility; ill will |
| anomaly | an aberration; an irregularity; a deviation |
| antecedent | someone or sth that went before; sth that provides a model for sth that came after it |
| antipathy | firm dislike |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| apartheid | the former policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Republic of South Africa |
| apathy | lack of interest; lack of feeling |
| aphorism | a brief, often witty saying; a proverb |
| apocalypse | a prophetic revelation, esp. one concerning the end of the world |
| apocryphal | of dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurious |
| apotheosis | elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something |
| appease | to soothe; to pacify by giving in to |
| appreciate | to increase in value |
| apprehensive | worried; anxious |
| approbation | approval; praise |
| appropriate | to take without permission; to set aside for a particular use |
| aptitude | capacity for learning; natural ability |
| arbiter | one who decides; a judge |
| arbitrary | random; capricious |
| arcane | mysterious; known only to a select few |
| archaic | extremely old; ancient; outdated |
| archetype | an original model or pattern |
| ardent | passionate; enthusiastic |
| arduous | hard; difficult |
| aristocratic | of noble birth; snobbish |
| artful | crafty; wily; sly |
| artifice | a clever trick; cunning |
| ascendancy | supremacy; domination |
| ascetic | hermit-like; practicing self-denial |
| assiduous | hardworking; busy; diligent |
| assimilate | to take in; to absorb; to learn thoroughly |
| assuage | to soothe; to pacify; to ease the pain of; to relieve |
| astute | shrewd; keen in judgment |
| atheist | one who does not believe in the existence of any god or divine being |
| attrition | gradual wearing away, weakening, or loss; a natural or expected decrease in numbers or size |
| audacity | boldness; reckless daring; impertinence |
| augment | to make bigger; to add to; to increase |
| auspicious | favorable; promising; pointing to a good result |
| austere | unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess |
| autocratic | ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy |
| autonomous | acting independently |
| avarice | greed; excessive love of richness |
| avow | to claim; to declare boldly; to admit |
| avuncular | like an uncle, esp. a nice uncle |
| awry | off course; twisted to one side |
| axiom | a self-evident rule or truth; a widely accepted saying |
| banal | ordinary; unoriginal |
| bane | poison; cause of harm; torment |
| bastion | stronghold; fortress; fortified place |
| beget | to give birth to; to create; to lead to; to cause |
| belabor | to go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent |
| beleaguer | to surround; to besiege; to harass |
| belie | to give a false impression of; to contradict |
| belittle | to put someone down |
| belligerent | combative; quarrelsome; waging war |
| bemused | confused; bewildered |
| benefactor | one who provides help, esp. in the form of a gift or donation |
| benevolent | generous; kind; doing good deeds |
| benign | gentle; not harmful; kind; mild |
| bequest | something left to someone in a will |
| bereaved | deprived or left desolate, esp. through death |
| beset | to harass, to surround |
| blasphemy | irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity |
| blatant | unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring |
| blight | a disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys |
| blithe | carefree; cheerful |
| bourgeois | middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional |
| bovine | cow-related; cowlike |
| canine | dogs |
| equine | horses |
| feline | cats |
| piscine | fish |
| porcine | pigs |
| ursine | bears |
| brevity | briefness |
| broach | to open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject |
| bucolic | charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike |
| bureaucracy | any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency, lots of rules, and red tape |
| burgeon | to expand; to flourish |
| burlesque | a ludicrous, mocking, lewd imitation |
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