LIST 1A Flashcards
Abound
To be present in great quantity
Abduction
Kidnapping
Absurd
Ridiculous
Accomplice
Helper
Adhere
To stick firmly
Adversary
Enemy
Afoot
In motion; in progress
Agitate
- To disturb; to trouble
2. To shake an object
Airtight
Perfect; without weaknesses
Allegiance
Loyalty
Amass
To collect a lot of
Amity
Friendship
Anchor
To hold in place
Anonymous
Without a name
Apparel
Clothes
Apprehend
- To catch and take into custody
2. To understand
Arbiter
One who settles a dispute
Ascending
Going up
Asylum
Shelter; refuge
Auctioneer
One who sells goods at an auction
Avert
To avoid
Babble
To talk foolishly or too much
Barbaric
Primitive; uncivilized
Belittle
To criticize
Bid
- To make an offer
2. To order or command
Bloated
Swollen
Bogus
Fake
Brace
To support
Breadth
How broad something is
Buoyant
- Happy
2. Able to float
Byway
Side road
Cadet
Military student
Candid
Honest; open; outspoken
Carnivorous
Meat - eating
Censure
To criticize harshly; to blame
Chronic
Constant
Cleanse
To clean; to purify
Collage
A collection of pictures or images
Compassionate
Kind; sympathetic
Complacent
Self satisfied; smug
Composer
One who writes music
Compress
To press together
Conclusive
Definite; proven
Confectioner
Maker of candy
Connoisseur
Expert
Consequential
- Important
2. Resulting
Conspiracy
A secret plan to do something unlawful; a plot
Consumer
Buyer
Contour
Curve; shape
Converge
To come together
Cordial
Polite; friendly
Counsel
To guide; to advise
Crave
To want a lot; to long for
Criterion
Factor or quality used to judge something
Cumulative
Including everything from the beginning
Dabble
To take a mild interest in something
Decay
To rot
Decode
To translate a code into understandable language
Deflate
- To remove air from something
2. To discourage
Delete
To remove; to erase
Demote
To lower in rank
Descendant
Relative from a younger generation
Detect
To notice
Devise
To plan; to design
Dignity
Honor
Directory
A book of names, addresses, etc.
Discipline
- Ability to practice regularly
2. To punish
Discourse
Speech; conversation
Discriminate
To notice differences
Dishearten
To discourage
Dismay
Sadness; disappointment
disrepute
Having a bad reputation
Distant
Unfriendly
Distress
Worry; unhappiness
Document
To support with evidence
Drought
Severe dryness
Duration
How long something lasts
Dynamics
The study of motion
Eccentric
Strange; unusual in an interesting way
Egoist
One who pays too much attention to the self
Embrace
- To hug
2. To accept
Emotive
Emotional
Endow
- To give talent or quality to someone
2. To give money to
Enlighten
To inform; to make clear
Entity
- Object; thing
2. Living being
Equilibrium
Balance
Error
Mistake in baseball
Evade
To escape from; to avoid
Excerpt
A part of a quote or passage
Exhibitionist
One who enjoys showing Off
Expertise
Skill
Extravagance
Wasteful spending
Fabricate
- To create
2. To lie
Farfetched
Unbelievable
Flourish
To grow; to be successful
Forethought
Thinking beforehand
Fragment
- A broke piece
2. To break into pieces
Fraudulent
Fake
Fumble
Mistake in football
Galaxy
A group of stars
Ghastly
Horrible
Glutton
One who eats too much
Grandiose
- Magnificent
2. Showy
gregarious
Sociable; friendly
Grove
Small forest or field of trees
Guzzle
To drink quickly
Habitable
Fit to be lived in
Hangar
Shelter for airplanes
Haze
Fog; mist
Heir
A person who inherits
Hibernation
In animals, the state of sleeping through the winter; inactivity
Home run
Score in baseball
hurl
To throw forcefully
Hypothesis
Assumption; possible explanation