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Essential Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abate | Reduce, diminish |
| Abdicate | Formally give up the throne or some other power ore responsibility |
| Aberrant | Abnormal, deviant |
| Abhor | detest, regard with disgust |
| Abjure | Give up, renounce; repudiate, recant or shun |
| Abrasive | Rough, suitable for grinding or polishing |
| Abstain | Hold back, refrain |
| Abridge | Reduce or lessen; shorten by omitting parts throughout while retaining the main idea |
| Acme | Summit, peak, highest point |
| Activism | The practice of pursuing political or other goals through vigorous action often including protests and demonstrations |
| Adhere | Stick to or to a plan or belief |
| Admonish | Mildly scold; caution, advise or remind to do something |
| Adverse | Opposing, harmful |
| Advocate | Speak or argue in favor of; a person who pleads for a cause on behalf of another person (if used as noun) |
| Aesthetic | Concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste, pertaining to the science of what is beautiful (adj); a sense of beauty and taste of a particular time and place (noun) |
| Affable | Warm and friendly, pleasant, approachable |
| Affectation | Fake behavior (such as in speech of dress) adopted to give a certain impression |
| Aggrandize | Make greater; exaggerate |
| Aggregate | Gather together, amount to; constituting a whole made up of constituent parts |
| Alacrity | Cheerful or speedy willingness |
| Alienate | Cause to become unfriendly, hostile or distant |
| Alleviate | Lessen, make easier to endure |
| Ambiguous | Not clear, hard to understand |
| Ambivalent | Uncertain; unable to decide |
| Analogous | Comparable, corresponding in some particular way |
| Anarchy | Absence of law or government |
| Anoint | Rub or sprinkle oil on; make sacred, such as by a ceremony that includes applying oil to someone |
| Antagonize | Make hostile or unfriendly |
| Apocryphal | Of questionable authenticity, fake |
| Arcane | Known or understood by only a few; obscure secret |
| Archaic | Characteristic of an earlier period, ancient, primitive |
| Arduous | Very difficult, strenuous; severe, hard to endure |
| Artless | Free of deceit or craftiness, natural, genuine; lacking skill or knowledge, crude, uncultured |
| Ascertain | Find out with certainty |
| Assuage | Make milder, relieve; soothe, pacify, calm |
| Austere | Severe in manner or appearance; very self-disciplined, ascetic; without luxury or ease; sober or serious |
| Aver | Declare or affirm with confidence |
| Avid | Enthusiastic, dedicated, passionate; excessively desirous |
| Balk | Refuse to proceed or do something |
| Base | Morally low, mean, dishonorable; of little or no value; crude and unrefined; counterfeit |
| Belie | Contradict or misrepresent |
| Benign | Harmless, favorable; kindly, gentle or beneficial; no cancerous |
| Boor | rude, ill-mannered or insensitive person; a peasant or country bumpkin |
| Burgeon | Grow or flourish rapidly; put forth buds or shoots (of a plant) |
| Buttress | Support or encourage; a support or prop, esp. projecting from and supporting the wall of a building |
| Bygone | Past former; that which is in the past |
| Capricious | Acting on impulse, erratic |
| Cartography | Mapmaking |
| Castigate | Criticize severely; punish in order to correct |
| Caustic | Capable of corroding metal or burning the skin; very critical or sarcastic |
| Chauvinism | Fanatical patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory; undue or biased devotion to any group, cause etc. |
| Clamor | Noisy uproar or protest, as from a crowd; a loud, continuous noise |
| Clinch | Make final or settle conclusively; to fasten or hold together |
| Coalesce | Come together, unit; fuse together |
| Cogent | Very convincing, logical |
| Commensurate | The same in size, extent, equivalent, proportional |
| Complementary | Completing; fitting together well; filling mutual needs |
| Conciliatory | Reconciling, appeasing, attempting to make peace |
| Confer | Consult, compare views; bestow or give |
| Console | Lessen the suffering or grief of; a control panel, or small table or cabinet |
| Consolidate | Unite, combine, solidify, make coherent |
| Construe | Interpret or translate |
| Contentious | Controversial; prone to causing arguments, especially gratuitous or petty ones |
| Contextualize | Place in context, such as by giving the background or circumstances |
| Conundrum | Riddle, the answer to which involves a play on words; any mystery |
| Conversant | Knowledgeable about or experienced with |
| Copious | Plentiful, bountiful |
| Corroborate | Support, add evidence to |
| Cosmopolitan | Belonging to the entire world, at home globally; free from local or national prejudices or attachments |
| Countenance | Facial expression or face; approve or tolerate |
| Counterpoint | contrasting item, opposite; a complement; the use of contrast or interplay in a work of art |
| Counterproductive | Defeating the purpose; preventing the intended goal |
| Covert | Secret, veiled, undercover |
| Crafty | Cunning, skillful in deception or underhanded schemes |
| Denigrate | Belittle, attack the reputation of |
| Denote | Be a name or symbol for |
| Deride | Mock, scoff at, laugh at contemptuously |
| Desiccate | Thoroughly dried up, dehydrated |
| Detached | Impartial, disinterested; unconcerned, distant, aloof |
| Diatribe | Bitter, abusive attack or criticism; rant |
| Didactic | Intended to instruct; teaching, or teaching a moral lesson |
| Digress | Go off-topic when speaking or writing |
| Din | Loud, confused noise, esp. for a long period of time |
| Disabuse | Free someone from a mistake in thinking |
| Discerning | Having good judgment or insight; able to distinguish mentally |
| Discredit | Injure the reputation of, destroy credibility of or confidence in |
| Discrepancy | Difference or inconsistency |
| Discriminating | Judicious, discerning, having good judgment or insight |
| Disingenuous | Insincere, not genuine |
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