Vocab List #3

Question 1

Aberration

Answer 1

something different from the usual

Question 2

Abscond

Answer 2

to depart secretly

Question 3

Acquiese

Answer 3

to agree, comply quietly

Question 4

Adumbrate

Answer 4

to sketch, outline in a shadowy way

Question 5

Adversial

Answer 5

antagonistic, competitive

Question 6

Aesthetic

Answer 6

pertaining to beauty or art

Question 7

Alchemy

Answer 7

medieval chemical philosophy aimed at trying to make metal into gold

Question 8

Altruism

Answer 8

unselfish concern for others’ welfare

Question 9

Amity

Answer 9

friendship

Question 10

Anachronism

Answer 10

something chronologically inappropriate; something out of place in time

Question 11

Analogous

Answer 11

comparable, parallel

Question 12

Antediluvian

Answer 12

prehistoric, ancient beyond measure

Question 13

Antepenultimate

Answer 13

third from last

Question 14

Aphasia

Answer 14

inability to speak or use words

Question 15

Aphelion

Answer 15

point in a planet’s orbit that is farthest from the sun

Question 16

Ascetic

Answer 16

self-denying, abstinent, austere

Question 17

Aspersion

Answer 17

false rumor, damaging report, slander

Question 18

Atrophy

Answer 18

to waste away, wither from disuse

Question 19

Avarice

Answer 19

greed