Vocab Flashcards
Abate
Reduce or diminsh
ex)her stressover spending so much money on a house abated when the real estate broker told her about the property tax abatement
Aberration, Anomaly
Something that stands out or is abnormal
ex) the election of a liberal in the conservative county was an aberration (or anomaly) made possible only by the sudden..
Accord
Agreement
Acquisitiviness
Desire to acquire more especially an excessive desire
Acreage
Land measured in acres
Advent
Arrival
Ambivalent
uncertain
Amoritize
gradually pay off a dbet
Analogous
Correspoinding in a particular way
Annual
Cancel
Annoint
to rub or sprinkle on
Antitthetical
Totally opposed to; opposite
Arbiter
Judge, umpire person empowered to decide matters on hand
befall
happen to
belie
contradict or misprepresent
benevolent
expressing goodwill helping others or charity
benign
harmless, king or benificial, not cancerous
blight
disease that kills plants rapidly
bolster
strengthen
Brook
suffer or tolerate
bygone
past, former
cannon
body of accepted rules standards or artistic works.
coalesce
come together unite
coercian
force, use of pressure, threats etc
cogent
very convincing logical
copious
plentiful
countenance
approve or tolerate
debase
degrade lower in quality value rank
delimit
mark fix or define boundary
denote
be a name or symbol for
deride
mock scoff at laugh at
dichotomy
dvision into two parts or into contracdictory groups
divest
deprive or strip of rank
dovetail
join or fit together
dubious
doubtful quesitonable
eclectic
selecting the best of everything or coming from many diverse sources
egalitarian
related to belief in the equality of all ppl
enigma
puzzle myster riddle
equitable
equal fair just
erroneous
mistaken in error
expediaent
suitable proper
fledgling
new or inexperiencesd
