Word List #1 Flashcards
Abound
To be present in great quantity
Absurd
Ridiculous
Accomplice
Helper
Adhere
To stick firmly
Adversary
Enemy
Afoot
In motion. In progress
Agitate
To disturb to shake an object
Airtight
Perfect. Without weakness
Allegiance
Loyalty
Amass
To collect a lot of
Amity
Friendship
Anchor
To hold in place
Anonymous
Without a name
Apparel
Clothes
Apprehend
To take into custody. To understand
Arbiter
One who settles a dispute
Ascending
Going up
Asylum
Shelter. Refuge
Auctioneer
One who sells goods at an auction
Avert
To avoid
Babble
To talk foolishly
Barbaric
Primitive
Belittle
To criticize
Bid
To make an offer
Bloated
Swollen
Bogus
Fake
Brace
To support
Breadth
How broad something is
Bouyant
Happy. Able to float
Byway
Side road
Cadet
military student
Candid
Honest. Outspoken
Carnivorous
Meat eating
Censure
To criticize harshly
Chronic
Constant
Cleanse
To clean
Collage
A collection of pictures or images
Compassionate
Kind. Sympathetic
Complacement
Self satisfied. Smug
Composer
One who writes music
Compress
To press together
Conclusive
Definite. Proven
Confectioner
Maker of candy
Connoisseur
Expert
Consequential
Important
Conspiracy
A secret plan to do something unlawful
Consumer
Buyer
Contour
Curve. Shape
Converge
To come together
Cordial
Polite. Friendly
Counsel
To guide. To advise
Crave
To want a lot. To long for
Criterion
Factor or quality used to judge something
Cumulative
Including everything from the beginning
Dabble
To take a mild interest in
Decay
To rot
Decode
To translate into a code into understandable language
Deflate
To remove air from something
Delete
To remove
Demote
To lower in rank
Descendent
Relative from a younger generation
Detect
To notice
Devise
To plan. To design
Dignity
Honor
Directory
A book of names
Discipline
Ability to practice regularly.to punish
Discourse
Speech
Discrimanate
To notice differences
Dishearten
To discourage
Dismay
Sadness
Disrepute
Having a bad reputation
Distant
Unfriendly
Distress
Worry unhappiness
Document
To support with evidence
Drought
Severe dryness
Duration
How long something lasts
Dynamics
The study of motion
Eccentric
Unusual in an interesting way
Egoist
One who pays to much attention to the self
Embrace
To hug. To accept
Emotive
Emotional
Endow
To give a talent or quality to someone
Enlighten
To inform to make clear
Entity
Object. Living being
Equilibrium
Balance
Error
Mistake in baseball
Evade
To escape from
Excerpt
A part of a quote or passage
Exhibitionist
One who enjoys showing off
Expertise
Skill
Extravagance
Wasteful spending
Fabricate
To create. To lie
Far fetched
Unbelievable
Flourish
To grow
Forethought
Thinking before hand
Fragment
Broken piece
Fraudulent
Fake
Fumble
Mistake in football
Galaxy
A group of stars
Ghastly
Horrible
Glutton
One who eats to much
Grandiose
Magnificent
Gregarious
Sociable. Friendly
Grove
Small forest or field of trees
Guzzle
To drink quickly
Habitable
Fit to be lived in
Hangar
Shelter for airplanes
Haze
Fog
Heir
A person who inherits
Hibernation
The state of sleeping through winter
Home run
Score in baseball
Hurl
To throw forcefully
Hypothesis
Prediction
Ideology
Set of ideas typical of a social or political group
Illustrious
Famous
Impair
To make worse
Imperceptible
Unable to be seen or heard
Impose
To force on others
Impulse
Sudden urge
Incapacitated
Lacking physical or legal powers
Incompetence
Inability to function properly
Incriminate
To show proof of involvement in a crime
Indifferent
Lack of interest or feeling
Indistinguishable
Hard to tell apart
Inert
Lacking power to move
Infinite
Unlimited
Innovate
To be creative
Insight
A sudden understanding
Instantaneous
Immediate
Integral
Important
Intervention
Interference
Intuition
A bunch of feeling about something
Irreparable
Unfixable
Jack
Device for lifting something heavy
Judicious
Wise
Kernel
The central or important part
Labored
Done with great effort
Lavish
Extravagant. To give away in great quantity
Lethargic
Tired
Lofty
Very high in the air. Noble in thoughts and aims
Lull
A quiet pause
Luxuriant
Richly decorated
Malice
Hatred
Matriculate
To enter. To enroll
Medley
Group of songs strung together
Meritorious
Having value
Microbe
Tiny. Microscopic organism
Mine
To dig for metal
Miser
A person who hates to spend money
Monarchy
A state ruled by a king or queen
Multiplicity
Involving more than one
Negligence
Carelessness
Notorious
Famous for being bad
Objective
Goal
Obstinate
Stubborn
Optician
eye doctor
Oscillate
To move back and forth
Painstaking
Very careful
Partisan
Supporter of an idea
Pedestrian
One who travels by foot. Commonplace
Perpetual
Everlasting
Petty
Of little importance
Pitiable
Worthy of sympathy
Poised
Ready. In control of ones emotions
Portfolio
A set of pictures or documents
Preconcieved
Planned in advance
Predicament
Problem sitiution
Prescience
Foresight
Presume
To take for granted
Principled
Moral
Progressive
Moving forward
Prophet
One who predicts future events
Prudent
Careful
Quake
To shake or tremble
Radiate
To give off
Rash
Hurried
Recipient
One who recieves
Reclusive
Living alone
Recurrent
Repetitive
Refuge
A shelter from danger
Regional
Of a particular geographic area
Reinstate
To restore. To put back into a former position
Remission
Temporary weakening of force
Renovate
To repair
Reputability
Being well thought of
Resist
To fight against
Restore
To bring back to a formal condition
Revive
To bring back to life
Ripple
small wave on the surface
Rural
From the country
Saccharine
Overly sweet
Scrutinize
To examine carefully
Sentiment
Feeling or emotion
Sever
To separate
Shrug
To raise ones shoulders
Sluggish
Slow-moving
Solidarity
Togetherness
Spacious
Roomy
Spontaneity
Suddenness
Stained
Discovered. Dishonered
Static
Not moving
Stroke
A single deliberate movement
Subtle
Not easily seen
Suppress
To keep down by force
Sustain
To maintain
Synthesis
Combination of parts to create a whole
Tact
Ability to do or say the right thing at the right time
Tangent
Sudden change of topic
Temperament
Mood,character
Terrestrial
Of the earth
Touchdown
Score in football
Trawler
Fishing boat
Troupe
Group of performers
Ultimate
Final. Best
Unbounded
Without limits
Unethical
Immoral
Universal
Widespread
Uphold
To enforce
Utterance
Something spoken
Vacant
Empty
Vandal
One who damages property
Verbose
Using more words than are necessary
Veto
To forbid
Vulgar
Crude
Weary
Tired
Witticism
Clever remark
Zany
Crazy
Abduction
Kidnapping