VOCABULARY LIST 1 Flashcards
ABASE (uh BASE)
lower, humiliate
KEY: A BASE
LINK SENTENCE: He committed such a base act, that he was lowered and humiliated in the eyes of the world.
ABASH (uh BASH)
embarrass
KEY: A BASH
LINK SENTENCE: His friends threw a bash in his honor althoughthey knew that such attention embarrassed him.
ABATE (uh BATE)
subside
KEY: A BAIT
LINK SENTENCE: Stick with a bait that works, until the bitessubside.
ABDICATE (AB deh kate)
to give up a high position
KEY: ABIDE ATE
LINK SENTENCE: Because he couldn’t abide what they ate, hegave up his high position as king of the cannibals.
ABERRATION (AB uh RAY shun)
a deviation from the normal
KEY: A BEAR RAT
LINK SENTENCE: A bear as small as a rat is a deviation fromthe normal.
ABETTOR (uh BET ur)
encourager
KEY: A BETTOR
LINK SENTENCE: A bettor on a 100-to-1 shot will shoutencouragement to the horse and jockey.
ABEYANCE (uh BAY uns)
a temporary suspension
KEY: OBEY AUNT’S
LINK SENTENCE: When she didn’t obey her aunt’s curfew, herpunishment was a temporary suspension of privileges.
ABHOR (uh BORE)
despise
KEY: A BORE
LINK SENTENCE: The long-winded candidate was such a borethat all the voters despised him.
ABJECT (AB jekt)
wretched
KEY: ABE OBJECTED
LINK SENTENCE: Abe Lincoln objected to the wretched state ofthe slaves.
ABJURE (ab JURE)
to renounce under oath
KEY: ABE JURY
LINK SENTENCE: As a young lawyer defending an accusedmurderer, Abe Lincoln declared to the jury that his client hadrenounced all claims to his victim’s estate
ABNEGATE (AB nuh gate)
relinquish
KEY: ADAM NAGGED ATE
LINK SENTENCE: Adam was nagged by Eve until he ate thefruit and relinquished happiness in Eden.
ABOMINATE (uh BAHM uh nate)
to detest
KEY: A BOMB A MINUTE
LINK SENTENCE: When a bomb a minute hit the city,Londoners learned to detest the Nazis.
ABORTIVE (uh BORT iv)
terminated prematurely
KEY: ABORTION
LINK SENTENCE: In an abortion, pregnancy is terminatedprematurely.
ABRIDGE (uh BRIDGE)
to shorten
KEY: A BRIDGE
LINK SENTENCE: The state built a bridge across the river toshorten the trip to the town.
ABROGATE (AB ruh gate)
abolish
KEY: A BROGUE
LINK SENTENCE: In a thick brogue, the Irish RevolutionaryArmy leader called for the people to abolish British rule.
ABSCOND (ab SKAHND)
to run off
KEY: ABLE KAHN
LINK SENTENCE: Not able to resist the forces of Genghis Kahn,the soldiers ran off in retreat.
ABSOLUTE (AB suh loot)
unqualified
KEY: A SALUTE
LINK SENTENCE: He gave a salute to show unqualified loyaltyto his country.
ABSOLVE (ab ZAWLV)
to forgive
KEY: ABE SOLVE
LINK SENTENCE: Abe Lincoln tried to solve our great nationalproblems by forgiving the South after the Civil War.
ABSTEMIOUS (ab STEM ee us)
temperate
KEY: ABLE STEM
LINK SENTENCE: He was able to stem his desire for excesses,was temperate in all things.
ABSTINENT (AB stuh nunt)
refraining from doing something
KEY: ABBEY STAND IT
LINK SENTENCE: I don’t know how the monks in the abbey canstand it, refraining from worldly pleasures their whole lives.
ABSTRACT (ab STRAKT)
conceptual, not concrete
KEY: ABE STRUCK
LINK SENTENCE: Abe Lincoln struck the concept of twoseparate nations off his list of possibilities.
ABSTRUSE (ab STROOS)
difficult to understand
KEY: ABE’S TRUCE
LINK SENTENCE: Abe’s plan to make a truce with the Southafter the Civil War was difficult for some Yankees to understand.
ABUT (uh BUT)
to border on
KEY: A BUTT
LINK SENTENCE: The obese boy was made a butt of thechildren’s jokes so often, he bordered on committing violence.
ABYSMAL (uh BIZ mul)
bottomless
KEY: A BUSY MALL
LINK SENTENCE: Entering a busy mall during the Christmasseason is like falling into a bottomless pit.
ACCLAIM (uh KLAME)
praise
KEY: A CLAIM
LINK SENTENCE: The child made a claim that he never told alie, to win praise from his teacher.
ACCLIMATE (ACK luh mate)
to adjust to
KEY: A CLIMATE
LINK SENTENCE: Florida has a climate that is easy to adjust to.
ACCLIVITY (uh KLIV uh tee)
upward slope
KEY: A CLIFF
LINK SENTENCE: A cliff was formed by the sharp upward slopeof the hill.
ACCOLADE (AK uh lade)
award of merit
KEY: ACT LAID
LINK SENTENCE: Because of the knight’s heroic act, the kinglaid a bag of gold coins at his feet as an award of merit.
ACCORD (uh KORD)
agreement
KEY: A CHORD
LINK SENTENCE: The great orator always struck a chord ofagreement with his audience.
ACCOST (uh KOST)
to approach
KEY: A COST
LINK SENTENCE: At a cost of many lives, the Allied forcesapproached Berlin.
