VOCABULARY LIST 1

Question 1

ABASE (uh BASE)

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

ABASH (uh BASH)

Answer 2

embarrass
KEY: A BASH
LINK SENTENCE: His friends threw a bash in his honor althoughthey knew that such attention embarrassed him.

Question 3

ABATE (uh BATE)

Answer 3

subside
KEY: A BAIT
LINK SENTENCE: Stick with a bait that works, until the bitessubside.

Question 4

ABDICATE (AB deh kate)

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

ABERRATION (AB uh RAY shun)

Answer 5

a deviation from the normal
KEY: A BEAR RAT
LINK SENTENCE: A bear as small as a rat is a deviation fromthe normal.

Question 6

ABETTOR (uh BET ur)

Answer 6

encourager
KEY: A BETTOR
LINK SENTENCE: A bettor on a 100-to-1 shot will shoutencouragement to the horse and jockey.

Question 7

ABEYANCE (uh BAY uns)

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

ABHOR (uh BORE)

Answer 8

despise
KEY: A BORE
LINK SENTENCE: The long-winded candidate was such a borethat all the voters despised him.

Question 9

ABJECT (AB jekt)

Answer 9

wretched
KEY: ABE OBJECTED
LINK SENTENCE: Abe Lincoln objected to the wretched state ofthe slaves.

Question 10

ABJURE (ab JURE)

Answer 10

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

Question 11

ABNEGATE (AB nuh gate)

Answer 11

relinquish
KEY: ADAM NAGGED ATE
LINK SENTENCE: Adam was nagged by Eve until he ate thefruit and relinquished happiness in Eden.

Question 12

ABOMINATE (uh BAHM uh nate)

Answer 12

to detest
KEY: A BOMB A MINUTE
LINK SENTENCE: When a bomb a minute hit the city,Londoners learned to detest the Nazis.

Question 13

ABORTIVE (uh BORT iv)

Answer 13

terminated prematurely
KEY: ABORTION
LINK SENTENCE: In an abortion, pregnancy is terminatedprematurely.

Question 14

ABRIDGE (uh BRIDGE)

Answer 14

to shorten
KEY: A BRIDGE
LINK SENTENCE: The state built a bridge across the river toshorten the trip to the town.

Question 15

ABROGATE (AB ruh gate)

Answer 15

abolish
KEY: A BROGUE
LINK SENTENCE: In a thick brogue, the Irish RevolutionaryArmy leader called for the people to abolish British rule.

Question 16

ABSCOND (ab SKAHND)

Answer 16

to run off
KEY: ABLE KAHN
LINK SENTENCE: Not able to resist the forces of Genghis Kahn,the soldiers ran off in retreat.

Question 17

ABSOLUTE (AB suh loot)

Answer 17

unqualified
KEY: A SALUTE
LINK SENTENCE: He gave a salute to show unqualified loyaltyto his country.

Question 18

ABSOLVE (ab ZAWLV)

Answer 18

to forgive
KEY: ABE SOLVE
LINK SENTENCE: Abe Lincoln tried to solve our great nationalproblems by forgiving the South after the Civil War.

Question 19

ABSTEMIOUS (ab STEM ee us)

Answer 19

temperate
KEY: ABLE STEM
LINK SENTENCE: He was able to stem his desire for excesses,was temperate in all things.

Question 20

ABSTINENT (AB stuh nunt)

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

ABSTRACT (ab STRAKT)

Answer 21

conceptual, not concrete
KEY: ABE STRUCK
LINK SENTENCE: Abe Lincoln struck the concept of twoseparate nations off his list of possibilities.

Question 22

ABSTRUSE (ab STROOS)

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

ABUT (uh BUT)

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

ABYSMAL (uh BIZ mul)

Answer 24

bottomless
KEY: A BUSY MALL
LINK SENTENCE: Entering a busy mall during the Christmasseason is like falling into a bottomless pit.

Question 25

ACCLAIM (uh KLAME)

Answer 25

praise
KEY: A CLAIM
LINK SENTENCE: The child made a claim that he never told alie, to win praise from his teacher.

Question 26

ACCLIMATE (ACK luh mate)

Answer 26

to adjust to
KEY: A CLIMATE
LINK SENTENCE: Florida has a climate that is easy to adjust to.

Question 27

ACCLIVITY (uh KLIV uh tee)

Answer 27

upward slope
KEY: A CLIFF
LINK SENTENCE: A cliff was formed by the sharp upward slopeof the hill.

Question 28

ACCOLADE (AK uh lade)

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

ACCORD (uh KORD)

Answer 29

agreement
KEY: A CHORD
LINK SENTENCE: The great orator always struck a chord ofagreement with his audience.

Question 30

ACCOST (uh KOST)

Answer 30

to approach
KEY: A COST
LINK SENTENCE: At a cost of many lives, the Allied forcesapproached Berlin.