Wordlist 2 Flashcards
adulation (n)
The band enjoy the adulation of their fans wherever they go.
(adj): adulatory; (v): adulate
flattery; admiration
advent (n)
Most Americans were unaware of the advent of the nuclear Age until the news of Hiroshima reached them.
arrival
adventitious (adj)
He found this adventitious meeting with his friend extremely fortunate.
accidental; casual
adversary (n)
The young wrestler struggled to defeat his adversary.
(adj): adversarial: involving people who are in opposition and who argue against each other.
opponent
aerie (n)
The mother eagle swooped down on the unwitting rabbit and bore it off to her aerie high in the Rocky Mountains.
nest of a large bird of prey (eagle, hawk)
aesthetic (adj)
aesthete (n)
The beauty of Tiffany’s stained glass appealed to Esther’s aesthetic sense.
artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciation of the beauty
affable (adj)
syn: genial|(n): affability
Accustmed to cold, aloof supervisors, Nicholas was amazed at how affable his new employer was.
easily approachable; warmly friendly
affected (adj)
Don’t use such strange words - it makes you sound affected.
ant: unaffected | (n): affectation
artificial; pretended; assumed in order to press
affidavit (n)
The court refused to accept his statement unless he presented it in the form of an affidavit.
written statement made under oath
affix (v)
First the registrar had to affix her signature to the license; then she had to affix for official seal.
fasten; attach; add on
affliction (n)
(v): afflict: affect sb/sth un an unpleasant or harmful way.
Even in the midst of ger affliction, Elizabeth tried to keep up the spirits of those around her.
state of distress; cause of suffering
affront (n)
His speech was an affront to many in the local community.
(v): affront
insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect
aftermath (n)
People around the world wondered what the aftermath of China’s violent suppression of the student protests would be.
consequences; outcomel upshot
agenda (n)
We had so much difficulty agreeing upon an agenda that there was very little time for the meeting.
items of business at a meeting
agglomeration (n)
(v): agglomerate
It tooks weeks to assort the agglomeration of miscellanous items she had collected on her trip.
collection; heap
aggregate (v)
(n): aggregation
Before the Wall Street scandals, dealers in so-called junk bonds managed to aggregate great wealth in short periods of time.
gather; accumulate
aggressor (n)
(n): agression (adj): agressive
Before you phunish both boys for fighting, see whether you can determine which on was the aggressor.
attacker
aghast (adj)
He was aghast at the nerve of the speaker who has insulted his host
horrified
agitate (v)
Her fiery remarks agitated the already angry mob.
(n): agitation, agitator | (adj): agitated
stir up; disturb
agnostic (n)
Agnostics say we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of god.
one who is skeptical of the existence or knowablity of a god or any ultimate reality.
agrarian (adj)
The country is gradually losin gits agrarian occupation and turning more and more to an industrial point of view.
pertaining to land or its cultivation
alacrity (n)
Phil and Dave were raring to get off to the mountains; they packed up their ski gear and climbed into the van with alacrity.
cheerful promptness
alchemy (n)
(n): alchemist.
The changing of baser metals into gold was the goal of the students of alchemy.
medieval chemistry
alcove (n)
Though their apartment lacked a full-scale dining room, an alcove adjacent to the living make ad adequate breakfast nook for the young couple.
nook; small, recessed section of a room
alias (n)
John Smith’s alias was Bob Jones.
an assumed name
alimentary (adj)
The alimentary canal in our bodies is so named because digestion of food occers there.
supplying nourishment
alimony (n)
/ˈælɪməni/
Mrs. Jones was awarded $200 monthly alimony by the court when was divorced from her husband.
payment by a husband to his divorced wife (or vice versa)
allay (v)
The crew tried to allay the fears of the passengers by announcing that the fire had been controlled.
calm; pacify
allegiance (n)
Not even a term in prison could shake Lech Walesa’s allegiance to Solidarity, the Polish trade union he had helped to found.
loyalty
allegory (n)
(adj): allegorical
story in which characters are used as symbols; fable
alliteration (n)
“The furrow followeed free” is an example of alliteration.
repetition of beginning sound in poetry
alloy (n)
Alloys of gold are used more frequently than the pure metal.
a mixture as of metals
alloy (v)
mix; make less pure; lessen or moderate
allure (v)
(n): allure: the quality of being attractive and exciting (adj):alluring
Allured by the song of the sirens, the helsman steered the ship toward the reef.
entice; attract
allusion (n)
(v): allude | (adj): allusive
His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings.
indirect reference
aloft (adv)
She held the glass aloft.
upward
altercation (n)
A youth became involved in an altercation with a police officer over a parking ticket.
noisy quarrel; heated dispute
amalgamate (v)
(n): amalgation, amalgam: a mixture or combination
The unions will attempt to amalgate their groups into one national body.
combine; unite in one body
amass (v)
The miser;s aim is to amass and hoard as much gold as possible.
collect
ambience (n)
ambient (adj)
She went to the restaurant not for the food but for the ambience.
environment; atmosphere
ambivalence (N)
(adj): ambivalent
Tom between loving her parents one minute and hating them the next, she was confused by the ambivalence of her feelings.
the state of having contradictory or conflicting emtional attitudes
amble (n)
(v): amble
When she first mounted the horse, she was afreaid to urge the animal to go faster than a gentle amble.
moving at an easy pace
ambulatory (adj)
Juan was a highly ambulatory patient; not only did he refuse to be confined to bed, but he insisted on riding his skateboard up and down the halls.
able to walk, not bedridden
ameliorate (v)
(n): amelioration
The side-effects of the treatment can be ameliorated to some extent.
improve; make better sth that was bad or not good enough
amenable (adj)
You should find him amenable to reasonable arguments.
willing to be influenced by sth/sb
