Ib English 11 Vocabulary: Chapter 2

Front 1

Define adjorn

Back 1

a. to close formally
b.to put off to another time; to move to another place

Front 2

Define adverse

Back 2

hostile in purpose or effect;unfavorable

Front 3

Define advocate

Back 3

a. to speak or argue in favor of; to give active public support to
b. A person who pleads in the interest of a cause or individual

Front 4

Define aesthetic

Back 4

Petrtaining to a sense of beauty; artistic

Front 5

Define affable

Back 5

Courteous and agreeable in manner; easy to talk to or approach

Front 6

Define affectation

Back 6

A pretentious display of manners or sentiments that are not genuine; a peculiar habit of dress or behavior that has been adopted to impress others

Front 7

Define affluent

Back 7

prosperous, wealthy

Front 8

Define agenda

Back 8

a list or program of things to be done or acted upon

Front 9

Define aggregate

Back 9

a. the total amount or sum total of the individual parts
b. to gather or merge into a single whole; to amount to
c. Total, collective

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Define agile

Back 10

swift and light in action, movement or thought.

Front 11

Syllabicate adjourn.
Part of Speech?

Back 11

ad-journ'
verb

Front 12

Syllabicate adverse.
Part of Speech?

Back 12

ad'-verse, ad-verse'
Adjective

Front 13

Syllabicate advocate.
Part of Speech?

Back 13

ad'-ve-kat, ad'-ve-kit
Noun

Front 14

Syllabicate aesthetic.
Part of Speech?

Back 14

aes-thet'-ic
Adjective

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Syllabicate affable.
Part of Speech?

Back 15

af'-fa-ble
Adjective

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Syllabicate affocation.
Part of Speech?

Back 16

af-fec-ta'-tion
Noun

Front 17

Syllabicate affluent.
Part of Speech?

Back 17

af'-flu-ent
Adjective

Front 18

Syllabicate adgenda.
Part of Speech?

Back 18

a-gen'-da
Noun

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Syllabicate aggregate.
Part of Speech?

Back 19

Noun and adjective: ag'-re-git
Verb: ag'-re-gat

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Syllabicate agile.
Part of Speech?

Back 20

ag'-ile
Adjective

Front 21

Adjourn
Give 2 Synonyms
Give 2 Antonyms

Back 21

S:conclude, terminate; defer, postpone; suspend; transfer

A:end, finish, break off, call it a day, call a halt

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Adverse
Give 2 Synonyms
Give 2 Antonyms

Back 22

S: unfavorable, unfriendly, negative, antagonistic, antipathetic, inimical

A:cooperative, favorable

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Advocate
Give 2 Synonyms
Give 2 Antonyms

Back 23

S:champion, support, espouse, uphold, recommend, proponent, backer, defender, spokesman

A: denounce, condemn, oppose, attack; critic, opponent, adversary, antagonist

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Aesthetic
Give 2 Synonyms

Back 24

S: visual, appealing, beautiful

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Affable
Give 2 Synonyms
Give 2 Antonyms

Back 25

S:Sociable, genial, amiable, friendly, good-natured

A:unsociable, surlym testy, ill-tempered

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Affectation
Give 2 Synonyms
Give 2 Antonyms

Back 26

S:pose, pretense, mannerism

A:naturalness,affectedness

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Affluent
Give 2 Synonyms
Give 2 Antonyms

Back 27

S:flourishing, well-to-do, opulent

A:indigent, destitute, penniless, poverty-stricken

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Agenda
Give 2 Synonyms

Back 28

S:schedul, docket

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Aggregate
Give 2 Synonyms

Back 29

S:mass, assemblage, amalgamation, conglomeration, cluster;amalgamate, consolidate,; net, composite

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Agile
Give 2 Synonyms
Give 2 Antonyms

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S: nimble, limber, alert, brisk, supple, lithe, spry

A: torpid, sluggish, lethargic; awkward, clumsy

Front 31

Etymology adjourn

Back 31

a, from ad (Latin), "to" + diurnum (Late Latin, "day"

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Etymology adverse

Back 32

ad (Latin), "to; against" + vertere, versus (Latin),"turn"

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Etymology advocate

Back 33

ad (Latin), "to" + vocare, vocatus (Latin), "call"

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Etymology aesthetic

Back 34

aisthetikos (Greek), "perceptible to the senses"

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Etymology affable

Back 35

ad(Latin), "to" + fari (Latin) , "speak" + abilis, abile (Latin), "able to"

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Etymology affectation

Back 36

affectare, affectatus (Latin), "strive after"

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Etymology affluent

Back 37

ad (Latin, "to" + fluens, fluentis (Latin), "flowing," from fluere (Latin, "flow"

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Etymology agenda

Back 38

agere (Latin), "do"

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Etymology aggregate

Back 39

ad (Latin), "to" + grex, gregis (Latin), "herd"

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Etymology agile

Back 40

agilis (Latin), "busy; active," from agere (Latin), "do"

Front 41

How to you say this analogy verbaly?
gigantic:tiny=wet:dry

Back 41

gigantic is to tiny as wet is to dry