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SAT Study
High Frequency and Hot Prospects Word List
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| abate | v. subside; decrease, lessen |
| abridge | v. condense or shorten |
| abstemious | adj. sparing in eating and drinking; temperate |
| abstract | adj. theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational |
| abstruse | adj. obscure; profound; difficult to understand |
| accessible | adj. easy to approach; obtainable |
| acclaim | v. applaud; announce with great approval |
| accolade | n. award of merit |
| acknowledge | v. recognize; admit |
| acquiesce | v. assent; agree without protesting |
| acrid | adj. sharp; bitterly pungent |
| acrimonious | adj. bitter in words or manner |
| adulation | n. flattery; admiration |
| adversary | n. opponent |
| adversity | n. unfavorable fortune; hardship; a calamitous event |
| advocate | v. urge; plead for |
| aesthetic | adj. artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciation of the beautiful |
| affable | adj. easily approachable; warmly friendly |
| affirmation | n. positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath |
| aggregate | v.gather; accumulate |
| alleviate | v. relieve |
| aloof | adj. apart; reserved |
| altruistic | adj. unselfishly generous; concerned for others |
| ambiguous | adj. unclear or doubtful in meaning |
| ambivalence | n. state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes |
| amorphous | adj. formless; lacking shape or definition |
| anachronistic | adj. having an error involving time in a story |
| analogous | adj. comparable |
| anarchist | n. person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority |
| anecdote | n. short account of an amusing or interesting event |
| animosity | n. active enmity |
| anomaly | n. irregularity |
| antagonism | n. hostility; active resistance |
| antediluvian | adj. antiquated; extremely ancient |
| antidote | n. medicine to counteract a poison or disease |
| antipathy | n. aversion; dislike |
| antiquated | adj. old-fashioned; obsolete |
| apathy | n. lack of caring; indifference |
| apocryphal | adj. untrue; made up |
| appease | v. pacify or soothe; relieve |
| apprehension | n. fear |
| arable | adj. fit for growing crops |
| arbitrary | adj. capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical |
| archaic | adj. antiquated |
| ardent | adj. intense; passionate; zealous |
| authoritarian | adj. subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another's will |
| autonomous | adj. self-governing |
| avarice | n. greediness for wealth |
| aversion | n. firm dislike |
| avert | v. prevent; turn away |
| beguile | v. mislead or delude; pass time |
| belie | v. contradict; give a false impression |
| benevolent | adj. generous; charitable |
| bequeath | v. leave to someone by a will; hand down |
| bleak | adj. cold or cheerless; unlikely to be favorable |
| blighted | adj. suffering from a disease; destroyed |
| bolster | v. support; reinforce |
| braggart | n. boaster |
| brevity | n. conciseness |
| buttress | v. support; prop up |
| cacophonous | adj. discordant; inharmonious |
| cajole | v. coax; wheedle |
| calculated | adj. deliberately planned; likely |
| candor | n. frankness; open honesty |
| capricious | adj. unpredictable; fickle; fanciful |
| carping | adj. finding fault |
| censorious | adj. critical |
| censure | v. blame; criticize |
| certitude | n. certainty |
| charlatan | n. quack; pretender to knowledge |
| circumlocution | n. indirect or roundabout expression |
| cliche | n. phrase dulled in meaning by repetition |
| coalesce | v. combine; fuse |
| coercion | n. use of force to get someone to obey |
| colloquial | adj. pertaining to conversational or common speech |
| combustible | adj. easily burned |
| commemorate | v. honor the memory of |
| compile | v. assemble; gather; accumulate |
| complacency | n. self-satisfaction; smugness |
| complementary | adj. serving to complete something |
| compliance | n. readiness to yield; conformity in fulfilling requirements |
| composure | n. mental calmness |
| comprehensive | adj. thorough; inclusive |
| concede | v. admit; yield |
| conciliatory | adj. reconciling; soothing |
| concise | adj. brief and compact |
| concur | v. agree |
| condone | v. overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse |
| conflagration | n. great fire |
| confluence | n. flowing together; crowd |
| confound | v. confuse; puzzle |
| conjecture | v. surmise; guess |
| consensus | n. general agreement |
| constraint | n. compulsion; repression of feelings |
| contend | v. struggle; compete; assert earnestly |
| contentious | adj. quarrelsome |
| contract | v. compress or shrink; make a pledge; catch a disease |
| converge | v. approach; tend to meet; come together |
| conviction | n. judgment that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held belief |
| cordial | adj. gracious; heartfelt |
| corroborate | v. confirm; support |
| corrode | v. destroy by chemical action |
| corrugated | adj. wrinkled; ridged |
| credulity | n. belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naivete |
| criterion | n. standard used in judging |
| cryptic | adj. mysterious; hidden; secret |
| culpable | adj. deserving blame |
| cursory | adj. casual; hastily done |
| curtail | v. shorten; reduce |
| debilitate | v. weaken; enfeeble |
| debunk | v. expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc; ridicule |
| decorum | n. propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners |
| deference | n. courteous regard for another's wish |
| degradation | n. humiliation; debasement; degeneration |
| dehydrate | v. remove water from; dry out |
| deleterious | adj. harmful |
| delineate | v. portray; depict; sketch |
| denounce | v. condemn; criticize |
| deplore | v. regret; disapprove of |
| depose | v. dethrone; remove from office |
| depravity | n. extreme corruption; wickedness |
| deprecate | v. express disapproval of; protest against; belittle |
| deride | v. ridicule; make fun of |
| derivative | adj. unoriginal; derived from another source |
| desiccate | v. dry up |
| despondent | adj. depressed; gloomy |
| detached | adj. emotionally removed; calm and objective; physically unconnected |
| deterrent | n. something that discourages; hindrance |
| detrimental | adj. harmful; damaging |
| devious | adj. roundabout; erratic; not straightforward |
| devise | v. think up; invent; plan |
| diffidence | n. shyness |
| diffuse | adj. wordy; rambling; spread out (like a gas) |
| digression | n. wandering away from the subject |
| dilatory | adj. delaying |
| diligence | n. steadiness of effort; persistent hard work |
| diminution | n. lessening; reduction in size |
| discerning | adj. mentally quick and observant; having insight |
| disclose | v. reveal |
| discordant | adj. not harmonious; conflicting |
| discount | v. disregard; dismiss |
| discourse | n. formal discussion; conversation |
| discrepancy | n. lack of consistency; difference |
| discriminating | adj. able to see differences; prejudiced |
| disdain | v. view with scorn or contempt |
| disinclination | n. unwillingness |
| dismiss | v. put away from consideration; reject |
| disparage | v. belittle |
| disparity | n. difference; condition of inequality |
| disperse | v. scatter |
| disputatious | adj. argumentative |
| disseminate | v. distribute; spread; scatter(like seeds) |
| dissent | v. disagree |
| distend | v. expand; swell out |
| divergent | adj. differing; deviating |
| doctrine | n. teachings, in general; particular principle |
| document | v. provide written evidence |
| dogmatic | adj. opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal |
| dubious | adj. questionable; filled with doubt |
| dupe | n. someone easily fooled |
| duplicity | n. double-dealing; hypocrisy |
| ebullient | adj. showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm |
| eclectic | adj. composed of elements drawn from disparate sources |
| edify | v. instruct; correct morally |
| efface | v. rub out |
| effervescence | n. inner excitement or exuberance; bubbling from fermentation or carbonation |
| egotistical | adj. excessively self-centered; self-important; conceited |
| elated | adj. overjoyed; in high spirits |
| elegy | n. poem or song expressing lamentation |
| elicit | v. draw out by discussion |
| eloquence | n. expressiveness; persuasive speech |
| elucidate | v. explain; enlighten |
| emaciated | adj. thin and wasted |
| embellish | v. adorn; ornament |
| emend | v. correct; correct by a critic |
| emulate | v. imitate; rival |
| endorse | v. approve; support |
| enhance | v. increase; improve |
| enigma | n. puzzle; mystery |
| enmity | n. ill will; hatred |
| ephemeral | adj. short-lived; fleeting |
| equanimity | n. calmness of temperament; composure |
| equitable | adj. fair; impartial |
| equivocal | adj. ambiguous; intentionally misleading |
| erroneous | adj. mistaken; wrong |
| erudite | adj. learned; scholarly |
| esoteric | adj. hard to understand; known only to the chosen few |
| eulogy | n. expression of praise, often of the occasion of someone's death |
| euphemism | n. mild expression in place of an unpleasant one |
| evanescent | adj. fleeting; vanishing |
| exacerbate | v. worsen; embitter |
| exalt | v. raise in rank or dignity; praise |
| excerpt | n. selected passage (written or musical) |
| execute | v. put into effect; carry out |
| exemplary | adj. serving as a model; outstanding |
| exemplify | v. serve as an example of; embody |
| exhaustive | adj. thorough; comprehensive |
| exhilarating | adj. invigorating and refreshing; cheering |
| exonerate | v. acquit; exculpate |
| expedient | adj. suitable; practical; politic |
| expedite | v. hasten |
| explicit | adj. totally clear; definite; outspoken |
| exploit | v. make use of, sometimes unjustly |
| extol | v. praise; glorify |
| extraneous | adj. not essential; superfluous |
| extricate | v. free; disentangle |
| exuberance | n. overflowing abundance; joyful enthusiasm |
| facilitate | v. help bring about; make less difficult |
| fallacious | adj. false; misleading |
| fallow | adj. plowed but not sowed; uncultivated |
| falter | v. hesitate |
| fanaticism | n. excessive zeal; extreme devotion to a belief or cause |
| fastidious | adj. difficult to please; squeamish |
| fitful | adj. spasmodic; intermittent |
| flagrant | adj. conspicuously wicked; blatant; outrageous |
| florid | adj. ruddy; reddish; flowery |
| foolhardy | adj. rash |
| frivolous | adj. lacking in seriousness; self-indulgently carefree; relatively unimportant |
| frugality | n. thrift; economy |
| furtive | adj. stealthy; sneaky |
| garrulous | adj. loquacious; wordy; talkative |
| glacial | adj. like a glacier; extremely cold |
| glutton | n. someone who eats too much |
| gratify | v. please |
| gratuitous | adj. given freely; unwarranted; uncalled for |
| gravity | n. seriousness |
| gregarious | adj. sociable |
| guile | n. deceit; duplicity; wiliness; cunning |
| gullible | adj. easily deceived |
| hackneyed | adj. commonplace; trite |
| hamper | v. obstruct |
| hardy | adj. sturdy; robust; able to stand inclement weather |
| haughtiness | n. pride; arrogance |
| hedonist | n. one who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life |
| heresy | n. opinion contrary to popular belief; opinion contrary to accepted religion |
| hierarchy | n. arrangement by rank or standing; authoritarian body divided into ranks |
| homogeneous | adj. of the same kind |
| hypocritical | adj. pretending to be virtuous; deceiving |
| hypothetical | adj. based on assumptions or hypotheses; supposed |
| iconoclastic | adj. attacking cherished traditions |
| idiosyncrasy | n. individual trait, usually odd in nature; eccentricity |
| ignominy | n. deep disgrace; shame or dishonor |
| illicit | adj. illegal |
| illusory | adj. deceptive; not real |
| immutable | adj. unchangeable |
| impair | v. injure; hurt |
| impeccable | adj. faultless |
| impecunious | adj. without money |
| impede | v. hinder; block; delay |
| implausible | adj. unlikely; unbelievable |
| implement | v. put into effect; supply with tools |
| impregnable | adj. invulnerable |
| impudence | n. impertinence; insolence |
| inadvertently | adv. unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly |
| inane | adj. silly; senseless |
| incidental | adj. not essential; minor |
| incisive | adj. cutting; sharp |
| incite | v. arouse to action; goad; motivate; induce to exist |
| inclusive | adj. tending to include all |
| incongruous | adj. not fitting; absurd |
| inconsequential | adj. insignificant; unimportant |
| incontrovertible | adj. indisputable; not open to question |
| incorrigible | adj. not correctable |
| indefatigable | adj. tireless |
| indict | v. charge |
| indifferent | adj. unmoved or unconcerned; mediocre |
| indiscriminate | adj. choosing at random; confused |
| indolent | adj. lazy |
| induce | v. persuade; bring about |
| ineffable | adj. unutterable; cannot be expressed in speech |
| inert | adj. inactive; lacking power to move |
| inexorable | adj. relentless; unyielding; implacable |
| ingenious | adj. clever; resourceful |
| inherent | adj. firmly established by nature or habit |
| innate | adj. inborn |
| innocuous | adj. harmless |
| innovation | n. change; introduction of something new |
| insipid | adj. lacking in flavor; dull |
| insolvent | adj. bankrupt; unable to repay one's debts |
| instigate | v. urge; start; provoke |
| insularity | n. narrow-mindedness; isolation |
| insuperable | adj. insurmountable; unbeatable |
| integrity | n. uprightness; wholeness |
| intervene | v. come between |
| intimidate | v. frighten |
| intractable | adj. unruly; stubborn; unyielding |
| intrepid | adj. fearless |
| inundate | v. overwhelm; flood; submerge |
| invert | v. turn upside down or inside out |
| ironic | adj. resulting in an unexpected and contrary outcome |
| irreproachable | adj. blameless; impeccable |
| jocular | adj. said or done in jest |
| labyrinth | n. maze |
| laconic | adj. brief and to the point |
| laggard | adj. slow; sluggish |
| lament | v. grieve; express sorrow |
| lampoon | v. ridicule |
| lassitude | n. languor; weariness |
| laud | v. praise |
| lavish | adj. generous; openhanded; extravagant; wasteful |
| lethargic | adj. drowsy; dull |
| levity | n. lack of seriousness; lightness |
| linger | v. loiter or dawdle; continue or persist |
| listless | adj. lacking in spirit or energy |
| lithe | adj. flexible; supple |
| lofty | adj. very high |
| lurid | adj. wild; sensational; graphic; gruesome |
| luxuriant | adj. abundant; rich and splendid; fertile |
| malicious | adj. hateful; spiteful |
| marred | adj. damaged; disfigured |
| materialism | n. preoccupation with physical comforts and things |
| meander | v. wind or turn in its course |
| mercenary | adj. interested in money or gain |
| mercurial | adj. capricious; changing; fickle |
| methodical | adj. systematic |
| meticulous | adj. excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous |
| mirth | n. merriment; laughter |
| misanthrope | n. one who hates mankind |
| miserly | adj. stingy; mean |
| misnomer | n. wrong name; incorrect designation |
| mitigate | v. appease; moderate |
| mollify | v. soothe |
| morose | adj. ill-humored; sullen; melancholy |
| mosaic | n. picture made of colorful small inlaid tiles |
| mundane | adj. worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday |
| munificent | adj. very generous |
| nefarious | adj. very wicked |
| negate | v. cancel out; nullify; deny |
| nonchalance | n. indifference; lack of concern; composure |
| notoriety | n. disrepute; ill fame |
| novelty | n. something new; newness |
| nuance | n. shade of difference in meaning or color; subtle distinction |
| nurture | v. nourish; educate; foster |
| obdurate | adj. stubborn |
| obliterate | v. destroy completely |
| oblivion | n. obscurity; forgetfulness |
| obscure | v. darken; make unclear |
| obstinate | adj. stubborn; hard to control or treat |
| odious | adj. hateful; vile |
| ominous | adj. threatening |
| opaque | adj. dark; not transparent |
| opportunist | n. individual who sacrifices principles for expediency by taking advantage of circumstances |
| optimist | n. person who looks on the good side |
| opulence | n. extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance |
| orator | n. public speaker |
| ornate | adj. excessively or elaborately decorated |
| ostentatious | adj. showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention |
| pacifist | n. one opposed to force; antimilitarist |
| pariah | n. social outcast |
| parody | n. humorous imitation; spoof; takeoff; travesty |
| parsimony | n. stinginess; excessive frugality |
| partisan | adj. one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party |
| paucity | n. scarcity |
| penury | n. severe poverty; stinginess |
| perfunctory | adj. superficial; not thorough; lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm |
| peripheral | adj. marginal; outer |
| pernicious | adj. very destructive |
| perpetuate | v. make something last; preserve from extinction |
| pervasive | adj. pervading; spread throughout every part |
| pessimism | n. belief that life is basically bad or evil; gloominess |
| phenomena | n. observable facts; subjects of scientific investigation |
| philanthropist | n. lover of mankind; doer of good |
| piety | n. religious devotion; godliness |
| pitfall | n. hidden danger; concealed trap |
| pithy | adj. concise; meaningful; substantial; meaty |
| placate | v. pacify; conciliate |
| polemical | adj. aggressive in verbal attack; disputatious |
| ponderous | adj. weighty; unwieldy |
| pragmatic | adj. practical (as opposed to idealistic); concerned with the practical worth or impact of something |
| prattle | v. babble |
| precarious | adj. uncertain; risky |
| preclude | v. make impossible; eliminate |
| precocious | adj. advanced in development |
| predator | n. creature that seizes and devours another animal; person who robs or exploits others |
| predecessor | n. former occupant of a post |
| presumptuous | adj. overconfident; impertinently bold; taking liberties |
| pretentious | adj. ostentatious; pompous; making unjustified claims; overly ambitious |
| prevalent | adj. widespread; generally accepted |
| prodigal | adj. wasteful; reckless with money |
| profane | v. violate; desecrate; treat unworthily |
| profligate | adj. dissipated; wasteful; wildly immoral |
| profound | adj. deep; not superficial; complete |
| profusion | n. overabundance; lavish expenditure; excess |
| proliferation | n. rapid growth; spread; multiplication |
| prolific | adj. abundantly fruitful |
| provincial | adj. pertaining to a province; limited in outlook; unsophisticated |
| proximity | n. nearness |
| prudent | adj. cautious; careful |
| quagmire | n. soft, wet, boggy land; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself |
| qualified | adj. limited; restricted |
| quandary | n. dilemma |
| quell | v. extinguish; put down; quiet |
| querulous | adj. fretful; whining |
| quiescent | adj. at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive |
| ramble | v. wander aimlessly (physically or mentally) |
| rancor | n. bitterness; hatred |
| rant | v. rave; talk excitedly; scold; make a grandiloquent speech |
| ratify | v. approve formally; confirm; verify |
| raucous | adj. harsh and shrill; disorderly and boisterous |
| ravenous | adj. extremely hungry |
| raze | v. destroy completely |
| rebuttal | n. refutation; response with contrary evidence |
| recant | v. disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error |
| recluse | n. hermit; loner |
| recount | v. narrate or tell; count over again |
| rectify | v. set right; correct |
| redundant | adj. superfluous; repetitious; excessively wordy |
| refute | v. disprove |
| relegate | v. banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign |
| remission | n. temporary moderation of disease symptoms; cancellation of a debt; forgiveness or pardon |
| remorse | n. guilt; self-reproach |
| renounce | v. abandon; disown; repudiate |
| repel | v. drive away; disgust |
| replete | adj. filled to the brim or to the point of being stuffed; abundantly supplied |
| reprehensible | adj. deserving blame |
| reprimand | v. reprove severely; rebuke |
| reprove | v. censure; rebuke |
| repudiate | v. disown; disavow |
| repugnant | adj. loathsome; hateful |
| rescind | v. cancel |
| reserve | n. self-control; formal but distant manner |
| resigned | adj. accepting one's fate; unresisting; patiently submissive |
| resolution | n. determination; resolve |
| resolve | n. determination; firmness of purpose |
| respite | n. interval of relief; time for rest; delay in punishment |
| resplendent | adj. dazzling; glorious; brilliant |
| restraint | n. moderation or self-control; controlling force; restriction |
| reticence | n. reserve; uncommunicativeness; inclination to silence |
| retract | v. withdraw; take back |
| reverent | adj. respectful; worshipful |
| rhetorical | adj. pertaining to effective communication; insincere in language |
| rigor | n. severity |
| robust | adj. vigorous; strong |
| sage | n. person celebrated for wisdom |
| sanction | v. approve; ratify |
| satirical | adj. mocking |
| saturate | v. soak thoroughly |
| savory | adj. tasty; pleasing, attractive, or agreeable |
| scanty | adj. meager; insufficient |
| scrupulous | adj. conscientious; extremely thorough |
| scrutinize | v. examine closely and critically |
| seclusion | n. isolation; solitude |
| sedentary | adj. requiring sitting |
| servile | adj. slavish; cringing |
| skeptic | n. doubter; person who suspends judgment until the evidence supporting a point of view has been examined |
| sluggish | adj. slow; lazy; lethargic |
| somber | adj. gloomy; depressing; dark; drab |
| soporific | adj. sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness |
| sporadic | adj. occurring irregularly |
| spurious | adj. false; counterfeit; forged; illogical |
| spurn | v. reject; scorn |
| squander | v. waste |
| stagnant | adj. motionless; stale; dull |
| static | adj. unchanging; lacking development |
| steadfast | adj. loyal; unswerving |
| stolid | adj. unruffled; impassive; dull |
| strident | adj. loud and harsh; insistent |
| stupefy | v. make numb; stun; amaze |
| submissive | adj. yielding; timid |
| subordinate | adj. occupying a lower rank; inferior; submissive |
| subside | v. settle down; descend; grow quiet |
| substantiate | v. establish by evidence; verify; support |
| succinct | adj. brief; terse; compact |
| superficial | adj. trivial; shallow |
| superfluous | adj. unnecessary; excessive; overabundant |
| supplant | v. replace; usurp |
| surfeit | v. satiate; stuff; indulge to excess in anything |
| surpass | v. exceed |
| surreptitious | adj. secret; furtive; sneaky; hidden |
| susceptible | adj. impressionable; easily influenced; having little resistance, as to a disease; receptive to |
| sustain | v. experience; support; nourish |
| sycophant | n. servile flatterer; bootlicker; yes man |
| taciturn | adj. habitually silent; talking little |
| tantamount | adj. equivalent in effect or value |
| temper | v. moderate; tone down or restrain; toughen (steel) |
| tenacity | n. firmness; persistence |
| tentative | adj. hesitant; not fully worked out or developed; experimental; not definite or positive |
| terrestrial | adj. earthly (as opposed to celestial); pertaining to the land |
| terse | adj. concise; abrupt; pithy |
| threadbare | adj. worn through till the threads show; shabby and poor |
| thrive | v. prosper; flourish |
| tirade | n. extended scolding; denunciation; harangue |
| torpor | n. lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy |
| tranquility | n. calmness; peace |
| transient | adj. momentary; temporary; staying for a short time |
| trepidation | n. fear; nervous apprehension |
| trifling | adj. trivial; unimportant |
| trite | adj. hackneyed; commonplace |
| truncate | v. cut the top off |
| turbulence | n. state of violent agitation |
| turmoil | n. great commotion and confusion |
| undermine | v. weaken; sap |
| uniformity | n. sameness; monotony |
| unkempt | adj. disheveled; uncared for in appearance |
| unprecedented | adj. novel; unparalleled |
| usurp | v. seize another's power or rank |
| vacillate | v. waver; fluctuate |
| vaporize | v. turn into vapor (steam, gas, fog, etc.) |
| venerate | v. revere |
| verbose | adj. wordy |
| viable | adj. practical or workable; capable of maintaining life |
| vigor | n. active strength |
| vilify | v. slander |
| vindicate | v. clear from blame; exonerate; justify or support |
| virtuoso | n. highly skilled artist |
| virulent | adj. extremely poisonous; hostile; bitter |
| volatile | adj. changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly |
| voluble | adj. fluent; glib; talkative |
| whimsical | adj. capricious; fanciful |
| witticism | n. witty saying; wisecrack |
| zealot | n. fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal |
| arrogance | n. pride; haughtiness |
| articulate | adj. effective; distinct |
| artifact | n. object made by human beings, either handmade or mass-produced |
| artisan | n. manually skilled worker; craftsman, as opposed to artist |
| ascendancy | n. controlling influence; domination |
| ascetic | adj. practicing self-denial; austere |
| arrogance | n. pride; haughtiness |
| articulate | adj. effective; distinct |
| artifact | n. object made by human beings, either handmade or mass-produced |
| artisan | n. manually skilled worker; craftsman, as opposed to artist |
| ascendancy | n. controlling influence; domination |
| ascetic | adj. practicing self-denial; austere |
| aspire | v. seek to attain; long for |
| assiduous | adj. diligent |
| augment | v. increase; add to |
| assuage | v. ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe(anger) |
| austere | adj. forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented |
| astute | adj. wise; shrewd; keen |
| atrophy | v. waste away |
| attribute | v. ascribe; explain |
| audacious | adj. daring; bold |
| augment | v. increase; add to |
| elusive | adj. evasive; baffling; hard to grasp |
| fathom | v. comprehend; investigate |
| feasible | adj. practical |
| fell | v. cut or knock down |
| fervor | n. glowing ardor |
| unwarranted | adj. unjustified; groundless; undeserved |
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