Vocab Sheet 1

Question 1

To give up (royal power or the like)

Answer 1

Abdicate

Question 2

Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course

Answer 2

Aberration

Question 3

Very repugnant; hateful

Answer 3

Abhorrent

Question 4

To wear away the surface or some part of by friction

Answer 4

Abrade

Question 5

To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest

Answer 5

Abscond

Question 6

Dealing with matters difficult to be understood

Answer 6

Abstruse

Question 7

To go with or be associated with as a companion

Answer 7

Accompany

Question 8

To dress

Answer 8

Accouter

Question 9

To give credit or authority to

Answer 9

Accredit

Question 10

Sourness with bitterness and astringency

Answer 10

Acerbity

Question 11

The highest point or summit

Answer 11

Acme

Question 12

Quickness of intellectual insight, is or discernment; keenness of discrimination

Answer 12

Acumen

Question 13

Something added or to be added

Answer 13

Addendum

Question 14

Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers

Answer 14

Adroit

Question 15

To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients

Answer 15

Adulterate

Question 16

In progress

Answer 16

Afoot

Question 17

A thought that comes later than it’s appropriate or expected time

Answer 17

Afterthought

Question 18

A white or delicately tinted find grained gypsum

Answer 18

Alabaster

Question 19

An assumed name

Answer 19

Alias

Question 20

The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness

Answer 20

Allegory

Question 21

To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person

Answer 21

Allot

Question 22

Benevolence to others on subordination to self interest

Answer 22

Altruism

Question 23

Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease

Answer 23

Ambidextrous

Question 24

To relieve as from pain or hardship

Answer 24

Ameliorate

Question 25

The character &; and

Answer 25

Ampersand

Question 26

Anything forbidden as by social usage

Answer 26

Anathema

Question 27

Once more

Answer 27

Anew

Question 28

To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon

Answer 28

Annotate