Vocab Sheet 1 Flashcards
To give up (royal power or the like)
Abdicate
Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course
Aberration
Very repugnant; hateful
Abhorrent
To wear away the surface or some part of by friction
Abrade
To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest
Abscond
Dealing with matters difficult to be understood
Abstruse
To go with or be associated with as a companion
Accompany
To dress
Accouter
To give credit or authority to
Accredit
Sourness with bitterness and astringency
Acerbity
The highest point or summit
Acme
Quickness of intellectual insight, is or discernment; keenness of discrimination
Acumen
Something added or to be added
Addendum
Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers
Adroit
To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients
Adulterate
In progress
Afoot
A thought that comes later than it’s appropriate or expected time
Afterthought
A white or delicately tinted find grained gypsum
Alabaster
An assumed name
Alias
The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness
Allegory
To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person
Allot
Benevolence to others on subordination to self interest
Altruism
Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease
Ambidextrous
To relieve as from pain or hardship
Ameliorate
The character &; and
Ampersand
Anything forbidden as by social usage
Anathema
Once more
Anew
To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon
Annotate
