Vocab Flashcards
Abject
The highest level of loneliness poverty or sadness a person could reach
Abode
A place where people live. Ex. House, cave, apartment, etc
Abstract
Something that isn’t concrete or tangible.
Acknowledge
To notice something or someone and make sure it knows that it has been noticed
Adapt
To change to fit a situation
Admonition
A scolding
Affluent
To be very well off financially
Agitate
To work up or disturb
Aggrandize
To make something grander or better
Aggregate
The whole not the parts
Alternation
Taking turns
Amicable
To get along with other people
Analogous
To be comparable to another thing
Analogy
A comparison between two items
Anomaly
Something strange or out of the usual pattern of things
Antipathy
A very negative feeling toward another person or thing
Apparation
Something that suddenly appears
Arbitrary
Random
Ascertain
To find something out or confirm it
Aspire
Working towards a lofty goal
Autocratic
Someone that is acting like they are in charge or have all the power
Automated
Something has been changed to make it now automatic whereas previously it was not
Beget
To take steps to bring something into existence
Benevolent
To be kind.
Bestow
To give something to someone
Biological
Something related to the study of life or related to life itself
Calibrate
To adjust something so that it runs the way it should
Calisthenics
A type of exercise that rely on body weight
Capacity
A measure of somethings ability
Celestial
Having to do with outer space
Censure
To give someone a formal reprimand
Circulation
Anything moving back and forth or around in a predictable pattern
Coerce
To get someone to do something by threat of force
Cognition
The ability to understand something
Colloquial
“Everyday language” or slang
Commercial
The buying and selling of goods
Complementary
Something that goes well with the thing around it
Complimentary
Something that is provided free of charge
Conflate
To combine things or assume they are the same
Conjure
To bring something up
Consensus
When everyone agrees
Consequence
The results of an action taken
Conservator
A person whose job it is to conserve or preserve something
Constitution
Governmental constitution or Someone’s bodily health and r how something is put together
Contingent
Something that relys on other factors
Conventional
Something that follows the traditional rules that are set up
Convey
To get something across
Convoke
To call a meeting
Convulsion
A physical movement, perhaps involving a seizure
Cooperatively
Working together