Sae Uozumi Round 1

Question 1

abase

Answer 1

(v.) to humiliate, degrade
(After being overthrown and abased, the deposed leader offered to bow down to his conqueror.)

Question 2

abate

Answer 2

(v.) to reduce, lessen
(The rain poured down for a while, then abated.)

Question 3

abdicate

Answer 3

(v.) to give up a position, usually one of leadership
(When he realized that the
revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne.)

Question 4

aberration

Answer 4

(n.)something that differs from the norm
(In 1918, the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, but the success turned out to be an aberration, and the Red Sox have not won a World Series since.)

Question 5

abet

Answer 5

(v.) to aid, help, encourage
(The spy succeeded only because he had a friend on the inside to abet him.)

Question 6

abhor

Answer 6

(v.) to hate, detest
(Because he always wound up kicking himself in the head when he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor the sport.)

Question 7

abide

Answer 7

1. (v.) to put up with
   (Though he did not agree with the decision, Chuck decided to abide by it.)
2. (v.) to remain
   (Despite the beating they’ve taken from the weather throughout the millennia, the mountains abide.)

Question 8

abject

Answer 8

(adj.) wretched, pitiful
(After losing all her money, falling into a puddle, and breaking her ankle, Eloise was abject.)

Question 9

abjure

Answer 9

(v.) to reject, renounce
(To prove his honesty, the President abjured the evil policies of his wicked predecessor.)

Question 10

abnegation

Answer 10

(n.) denial of comfort to oneself
(The holy man slept on the floor, took only cold showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation.)

Question 11

abridge

Answer 11

1. (v.) to cut down, shorten
   (The publisher thought the dictionary was too long and abridged it.)
2. (adj.) shortened
   (Moby-Dick is such a long book that even the abridged version is longer than most normal books.)

Question 12

abrogate

Answer 12

(v.) to abolish, usually by authority
(The Bill of Rights assures that the government cannot abrogate our right to a free press.)

Question 13

abscond

Answer 13

(v.) to sneak away and hide
(In the confusion, the super-spy absconded into the night with the secret plans.)

Question 14

absolution

Answer 14

(n.) freedom from blame, guilt, sin
(Once all the facts were known, the jury gave Angela absolution by giving a verdict of not guilty.)

Question 15

abstain

Answer 15

(v.) to freely choose not to commit an action
(Everyone demanded that Angus put on the kilt, but he did not want to do it and abstained.)

Question 16

abstruse

Answer 16

(adj.) hard to comprehend
(Everyone else in the class understood geometry easily, but John found the subject abstruse.)

Question 17

accede

Answer 17

(v.) to agree
(When the class asked the teacher whether they could play baseball instead of learn grammar they expected him to refuse, but instead he acceded to their request.)

Question 18

accentuate

Answer 18

(v.) to stress, highlight
(Psychologists agree that those people who are
happiest accentuate the positive in life.)

Question 19

acclaim

Answer 19

(n.) high praise
(Greg’s excellent poem won the acclaim of his friends.)

Question 20

accolade

Answer 20

(n.) high praise, special distinction
(Everyone offered accolades to Sam after he won the Noble Prize.)

Question 21

accommodating

Answer 21

(adj.) helpful, obliging, polite
(Though the apartment was not big enough for three people, Arnold, Mark, and Zebulon were all friends and were accommodating to each other.)

Question 22

accord

Answer 22

(n.) an agreement
(After much negotiating, England and Iceland finally came to a mutually beneficial accord about fishing rights off the cost of Greenland.)

Question 23

accost

Answer 23

(v.)to confront verbally
(Though Antoinette was normally quite calm, when the waiter spilled soup on her for the fourth time in 15 minutes she stood up and accosted the man.)

Question 24

accretion

Answer 24

(n.) slow growth in size or amount
(Stalactites are formed by the accretion of minerals from the roofs of caves.)

Question 25

acerbic

Answer 25

(adj.) biting, bitter in tone or taste (Jill became extremely acerbic and began to cruelly make fun of all her friends.)

Question 26

acquiesce

Answer 26

(v.) to agree without protesting (Though Mr. Correlli wanted to stay outside and work in his garage, when his wife told him that he had better come in to dinner, he acquiesced to her demands.)

Question 27

acrimony

Answer 27

(n.) bitterness, discord (Though they vowed that no girl would ever come between them, Biff and Trevor could not keep acrimony from overwhelming their friendship after they both fell in love with the lovely Teresa.)

Question 28

acumen

Answer 28

(n.) keen insight (Because of his mathematical acumen, Larry was able to figure out in minutes problems that took other students hours.)

Question 29

adamant

Answer 29

(adj.) impervious, immovable, unyielding (Though public pressure was intense, the President remained adamant about his proposal.)

Question 29

adept

Answer 29

(adj.) extremely skilled (Tarzan was adept at jumping from tree to tree like a monkey.)