American Lit Vocab (Days 155-165)

Question 1

acute

Answer 1

sharp or severe in effect; intense

Question 1

adamant

Answer 1

utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urging, etc; too hard to cut, break, or pierce

Question 2

adept

Answer 2

Skill or profesion at or in something

Question 3

Admonish

Answer 3

to caution, advise, or counsel against something;
to reprove or scold, especially in a mild and good-willed manner

Question 4

Adulation

Answer 4

excessive devotion to someone; flattery

Question 5

Adumbrate

Answer 5

to produce a faint outline or sketch; to make in resemblance towards an object or item; to foreshadow

Question 6

advocate

Answer 6

to speak in favor of; to support by a large argument; to defend

Question 7

aesthetic

Answer 7

elating to the philosophy of aesthetics; concerned with notions such as the beautiful and the ugly.

Question 8

affable

Answer 8

to pleasantly approach; to be friendly towards or polite

Question 9

Affinity

Answer 9

a natural liking, interest or skill towards something

Question 10

affront

Answer 10

to personally offend or act in a deliberately disrespectful way

Question 11

aggrandize

Answer 11

to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend; to make greater in power, wealth, rank, or honor

Question 12

aggregate

Answer 12

the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined; to bring or come together

Question 13

aggrieved

Answer 13

wronged or offended; injured; deprived of rights

Question 14

agile

Answer 14

quick and well coordinated in movements or activity

Question 15

alacrity

Answer 15

cheerfulness, readiness. promptness, or willingness

Question 16

ameliorate

Answer 16

to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve

Question 17

amenable

Answer 17

ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; submissive

Question 18

analogous

Answer 18

having analogy; corresponding in some particular way

Question 19

anomaly

Answer 19

a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form; one that is abnormal or does not fit in

Question 20

antipathy

Answer 20

a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion; an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling

Question 21

Amiable

Answer 21

being friendly in behavior or manor