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Vocabulary: A-words Flashcards

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Ardor

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Intense devotion, eagerness or enthusiasm; great warmth of feeling. Passion

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Arduous

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Requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult; strenuous.

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ar•is•toc•ra•cy [air-uh-stok-ruh-see]

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any class or group considered to be superior, as through education, ability, wealth, or social prestige.

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Adept

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Very skilled or proficient at something.

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Acrimony

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sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, disposition, etc.: The speaker attacked him with great acrimony

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an•i•mos•i•ty [an-uh-mos-i-tee]:

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a feeling of strong dislike, ill will, or enmity that tends to display itself in action: a deep-seated animosity between two sisters; animosity against one’s neighbor.

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ab•hor•rent [ab-hawr-uh nt, -hor-]:

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causing repugnance; detestable; loathsome: an abhorrent deed.

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a•mal•ga•mate [uh-mal-guh-meyt]

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To mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite; combine: to amalgamate two companies.

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a•men•i•ty [uh-men-i-tee, uh-mee-ni-]:

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any feature that provides comfort, convenience, or pleasure: The house has a swimming pool, two fireplaces, and other amenities.

the quality of being pleasing or agreeable in situation, prospect, disposition, etc.; pleasantness: the amenity of the Caribbean climate.

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a•cer•bic [uh-sur-bik]

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harsh or severe, as of temper or expression: acerbic criticism.

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a•mel•io•rate (uh-meal-e- or-reyt,)

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to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate.

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Affable

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pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite: an affable and courteous gentleman.

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Admonished

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to caution, advise, or counsel against something.
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to reprove or scold, especially in a mild and good-willed manner: The teacher admonished him about excessive noise.
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to urge to a duty; remind: to admonish them about their obligations.

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a•nath•e•ma [uh-nath-uh-muh]

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a person or thing detested or loathed. that subject is anathema to him

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Auspicious (aw-spish-uhs)

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Promising success; favorable. favored by fortune; prosperous

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Assimilate

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Take in( information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully or incorporate as one’s own; absorb.

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ab•er•ra•tion [ab-uh-rey-shuh n]

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the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course.
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the act of deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type.
3.
deviation from truth or moral rectitude.
4.
mental irregularity or disorder, especially of a minor or temporary nature; lapse from a sound mental state.

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Antics

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Foolish, outrageous, or amusing behavior.

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as•suage [uh-sweyj, uh-sway- J]

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to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one’s grief; to assuage one’s pain.
to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one’s hunger.
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to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.

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an•te•cede [an-tuh-seed]

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to go before, in time, order, rank, etc.; precede: Shakespeare antecedes Milton.

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Aversion (uh-vur-zhuh N )

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a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy (usually fol. by to ): a strong aversion to snakes and spiders.
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a cause or object of dislike; person or thing that causes antipathy: His pet aversion is guests who are always late

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an•tip•a•thy an-tip-uh-thee

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a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion.
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an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling.
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an object of natural aversion or habitual dislike.

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a•lac•ri•ty [uh-lak-ri-tee]

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. cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
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liveliness; briskness.

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Amiable(a•mi•a•ble)

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Having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner.

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Absolution

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a freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences, obligations, or penalties.

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ar•rear [uh-reer]

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the state of being behind or late, especially in the fulfillment of a duty, promise, obligation, or the like.

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a•skance [uh-skans]

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with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval: He looked askance at my offer.

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av•a•rice [av-er-is]

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insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.

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Amok

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Behave uncontrollably and distruptively.

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Abate

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to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish: to abate a tax; to abate one’s enthusiasm.

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Aspire

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to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value (usually fol. by to, after, or an infinitive): to aspire after literary immortality; to aspire to be a doctor.

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Adulate (aj-uh-late)

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to show excessive admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely.

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Addendum [uh-den-duh m]

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: And item of additional material, typically omissions, added at the end of a book.

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an•a•logues Analogues

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: A person or a thing seen as comparable to another.

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Assiduous

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Showing great care and perseverance
constant; unremitting: assiduous reading.
2.
constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive: an assiduous student.

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Abject

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utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty
contemptible; despicable; base-spirited: an abject coward.

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Adage

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A proverb or short statement expressing a general truth. a traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; proverb

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at•test [uh-test]

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to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.

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Ascribe

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to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to thePhoenicians.
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to attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic: They ascribed courage to me forsomething I did out of sheer panic.

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Apotheosis

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The highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax

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Abysmal

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Extremely bad or appalling

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as•tute [uh-stoot, uh-styoot]

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Having or showing the ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one’s advantage

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ax•i•om [ak-see-uh m]

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a self-evident truth that requires no proof.
2.
a universally accepted principle or rule.
3.
Logic, Mathematics a proposition that is assumed without proof for the sake of studying the consequences that follow from it

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Anecdotal

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(Of an account) not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts and research

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ac•qui•esce [ak-wee-es]

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Accept something reluctantly but without protest

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Amnesty

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a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
2.
Law. an act of forgiveness for past offenses, especially to a class of persons as a whole.
3.
a forgetting or overlooking of any past offense.

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ac•cli•mate [ak-luh-meyt, uh-klahy-mit]

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to accustom or become accustomed to a new climate or environment; adapt.

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aph•ro•dis•i•ac [af-ruh-dee-ze-ak, -diz-ee-ak]

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a food, drug, potion, or other agent that arouses sexual desire.

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a•pos•ta•sy [uh-pos-tuh-see]

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a total desertion of or departure from one’s religion, principles, party, cause, etc.

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a•me•na•ble [uh-mee-nuh-buh l, uh-men-uh-]

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ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable: an amenable servant.
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liable to be called to account; answerable; legally responsible: You are amenable for this debt.

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ad•ven•ti•tious [ad-vuh n-tish-uh s]

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associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part; extrinsic.
appearing in an abnormal or unusual position or place

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adroit

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expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body. cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious: an adroit debater.

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Apophenia

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is the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.

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Appended

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Add (something) as an attachment or supplement

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Aphorism

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A pithy observation that contains a general truth; such as “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

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Aggrandizement

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an act or instance of aggrandizing, or increasing in size, or intensity: aggrandizement of mercantile trade in the early colonies.
the act of making something appear greater than is actually warranted by the facts: Some saw it as ego aggrandizement.
expansion of power, wealth, rank, or honor: The department was used for the aggrandizement of its leaders.

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Anachronism

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A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which if exists. A thing that is conspicuously old fashioned .
An act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period to which it does not belong.

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Amorous

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Showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire.

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Acculturation

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the process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group.

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Anterograde

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Of or denoting a type of amnesia involving inability to remember anything new.

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Acumen

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The ability to make good judgements and quick decisions. Typically in a particular domain

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Appetence

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(N) a eager desire, an indistinctive inclination, an attraction or a natural bond.

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Apace

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Swiftly;quickly: work continuous apace

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Amiable

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Having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner

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addled

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Unable to think clearly; confused. Being in love must have addled your brain.

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Avuncular

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Kind and friendly toward a younger or less experienced person.

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Attenuate

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Reduce the force, effect, or value of; reduce the amplitude of. Reduce the thickness of

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