Word List #1 Flashcards
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ABATE
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To subside; decrease; lessen
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ABASE
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To lower or to humiliate
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ABDICATE
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To renounce or give up
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ABERRATION
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A deviation from the expected or the normal; mental irregularity or disorder
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ABET
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To encourage or aid
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ABEYANCE
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A suspended action
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ABJECT
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Hopeless or crushed; servile and spiritless; wretched
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ABRADE
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To wear away by friction; scrape; erode
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ABSCOND
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To depart secretly to avoid capture
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ABSOLUTE
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Complete; totally unlimited; certain
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ABSOLVE
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To pardon (an offense); free from blame
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ABSTAIN
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To refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice (especially one regarded as improper or unhealthy)
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ABSTRACT
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Theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational
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ABTRUSE
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Obscure; profound; difficult to understand
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ACCELERANT
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To move faster
