American Lit Vocab Unit 3

Front 1

Arbitrary

Back 1

Based on ones own wishes, notions, or will; not going by rule or law.

2.)Fixed or determined by chance

3.) Using or abusing unlimited power; tyrannical; despotic

Front 2

Arcane

Back 2

Understood only by a few; secret

Front 3

Arduous

Back 3

Hard to do; requiring much effort; difficult

2.) Using up much energy; strenuous

Front 4

Artifice

Back 4

A clever device or trick

2.) Trickery; craft

3.) Skill or ingenuinity

Front 5

Ascetic

Back 5

Person who practices unusual self-denial or self discipline, especially for religious reasons.

2.) Person who refrains from pleasures and comforts.

3.) Refraining from pleasures and comforts; practicing unusual self-denial

Front 6

Asperity

Back 6

Harshness or sharpness of temper, especially as shown in tone or temper

2.) Severity; rigor

3.) Unevenness or roughness of surface

Front 7

Assiduous

Back 7

Careful and attentive; diligent

Front 8

Assimilate

Back 8

Take in and make part of oneself; absorb; digest.

2.) Cause to be like the people of a nation in customs, viewpoint, character, etc.

3.) Make more like the sound which follows or precedes.

4.) Become absorbed; be digested

5.) Become like the people of a nation in customs

6.) Become like

Front 9

Assuage

Back 9

Make (angry or excited feelings, etc.) less intense, calm or soothe.

2.) Make (physical or mental pains) easier or milder; relieve or lessen.

3.) Satisfy or appease.

Front 10

Astute

Back 10

Shrewd, especially with regard to ones own interests; crafty; sagacious.

Front 11

Attenuate

Back 11

Make thin or stender

2.) Make less dense; dilute.

3.) Weaken; reduce

4.)Become thin or slender

Front 12

Attrition

Back 12

A rubbing away, or wearing or grinding down, by friction.

2.) Any gradual process of wearing down, especially so as to exhaust an opponents energy or resources.

Front 13

Audacity

Back 13

Reckless daring; boldness; impudence; presumption

Front 14

Auspicious

Back 14

With signs of success; favorable

2.) Prosperous; fortunate

Front 15

Austere

Back 15

Stern in manner or appearance; harsh

2.) Severe in self discipline; strict in morals

3.) Severely simple

4.) Grave, somber, serious

Front 16

Awry

Back 16

With a twist or turn to one side.

2.) wrong; out of order

Front 17

Banal

Back 17

Not new or interesting; commonplace; trite

Front 18

Bane

Back 18

Cause of death, ruin, or harm.

2.) Destruction f any kind; ruin; harm

Front 19

Beguile

Back 19

Trick or mislead; decieve; delude

2.)Take away from decietfully or cunningly.

3.) Win the attention of; entertain; amuse

4.)while away pleasantly

Front 20

Belabor

Back 20

Beat vigourously; thrash.

2.) To set upon with too much talk, advice, etc.