Vocab

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Abdicate

Back 1

To give up formally, as an office, duty, power, or claim.

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Abet

Back 2

To encourage or assist, especially in wrong doing.

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Abhor

Back 3

To regard with horror and loathing; to hate intensely.

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Abject

Back 4

a) wretched, miserable; degrading, humiliating

b) mean-spirited, base; despicable, contemptible

c) complete and unrelieved

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Absolve

Back 5

To clear of guilt or blame.

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Abstain

Back 6

To refrain completely and voluntarily.

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Academic

Back 7

a) pertaining to a college or other institution of learning; scholarly

b) theoretical rather than practical; unrealistic

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Accede

Back 8

a) to yield to; to agree to

b) to enter upon an office of dignity

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Acclimate

Back 9

To get used to (usually an environment or situation).

Hint 9

Think: Climate Change

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Addiction

Back 10

A habit-forming practice or pursuit, usually one that is bad for a person's health or morally objectionable; habitual use of, or devotion to, something.

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Adjourn

Back 11

a) to close formally

b) to put off to another time; to move to another place

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Adverse

Back 12

Hostile un purpose or effect; unfavourable.

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Advocate

Back 13

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

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Aesthetic

Back 14

Pertaining to a sense of beauty; artistic.

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Affable

Back 15

Courteous and agreeae in manner; easy to talk to or approach.

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Affectation

Back 16

A pretentious display of manner ir sentiments that are not genuine; a peculiar habit of dress or behaviour that has been adopted to impress others.

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Affluent

Back 17

Prosperous, wealthy.

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Agenda

Back 18

A list of program of things to be done or acted upon.

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Aggregate

Back 19

a) the toal 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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Agile

Back 20

Swift and light in action, movement, or thought.

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Alienate

Back 21

To cause hostility of indifference where love, friendliness, or interest formerly existed.

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Allege

Back 22

To claim that something is true but without offering any proof.

Hint 22

He allegedly said this.

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Allude

Back 23

To refer to indirectly.

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Ambience

Back 24

To surrounding or pervading atmosohere; the tone and spirit of an environment.

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Ambivalent

Back 25

Wavering or uncertain because of an inability to make a choice between two contradictory feelings or viewpoints in regard to a person, thing, or course of action.

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Amnesty

Back 26

An offical pardon granted to offenders against the government, especially for political offences.

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Anarchronism

Back 27

The misplacing of an object or event in a period to which it cannot possibly belong; anythjng out of its proper time frame.

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Anarchy

Back 28

Absense of governmental authority; general polotical and social disorder.

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Anaethma

Back 29

a) a curse or a strong denunciation

b) the person or thing cursed; more generally, any object of intense dislike

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Anecdote

Back 30

A brief account of some interesting or amusing incident, especially one containing biographical or historical details.

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Anomoly

Back 31

A deviation from what is normal or expected.

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Apathy

Back 32

Lack of feeling, emotion, or interest.

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Appall

Back 33

To fill with intense horrir, fear, or dismay.

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Apprehend

Back 34

a) to arrest or take into custody

b) to percieve or understand the meaning of

c) to look forward to with fear or anxiety

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Arbitrary

Back 35

a) subject ro or determined by one's judgement; random

b) arrived at by an exercise of the will, personal preference, or whim, as opposed to being based on reason or justice

c) given to willful decisions or demands; tyrannical or dictatorail

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Arbitrate

Back 36

To act as an impartial judge in a dispute; to settle

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Array

Back 37

To line up; to dress up.

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Articulate

Back 38

a) to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words

b) expressed clearly and forefully; able to employ language easily and fluently

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Askew

Back 39

a) out of line or position; turned on one side

b) dissaprovingly; scornfully

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Assimilate

Back 40

a) to absorb fully ir make one's own; to adopt as one's own

b) to adapt fully or to make like

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Astute

Back 41

Keen of mind and judgement, especially in practical matters; cunning.

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Asylum

Back 42

a) an institution that shelters and cares for mentally unbalanced, aged, or homeless people

b) any place offering protection of security

c) protection again a legal or social penalty

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Atone

Back 43

To make up for or repent.

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Atrocity

Back 44

A savagely cruel, brutal, or inhuman deed; a monstrosity.

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Atropy

Back 45

a) a failure to develop normally; a progressive wasting awat or decline

b) to waste away

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Attrition

Back 46

a) a gradual wearing down or weaking or resistance resulting from constant friction, pressure, or harassment

b) a gradual often natural decrease in size, strength, or number as a result of resignation, retirement, death, or the like

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Nutrition

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Augment

Back 47

To make greater; to become greater.

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Augur

Back 48

a) someone who can forecast the future by spotting various signs or indications of what is to come.

b) to predict or foretell through signs; to point to or be an omen of

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Austere

Back 49

Ridigly severe; severely simple or bare.

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Authentic

Back 50

Genuine, trustworthy.

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Avarice

Back 51

An excessive desire to acquire and possess wealth; a combination of greed and stinginess.

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Avid

Back 52

Extremely eager, anxious, or enthusiastic.

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Badger

Back 53

To tease; to annoy with a constant string of petty torments.

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Baffle

Back 54

a) to puzzle completely

b) to preveng from achieveing a goal

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Banal

Back 55

Made stale by constant use or repetition.

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Belligerent

Back 56

a) warring, actually enaged in a war; warlike or hostile

b) a party (for example a nation or organization) engaged in a war

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Benign

Back 57

a) gently and kindly

b) wholesome or favorable

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Bicker

Back 58

To engage in petty quarreling.

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Bizzare

Back 59

Weird or fantastic.

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Bland

Back 60

a) mild or gentle (used in nuetral tone)

b) lacking interest or liveliness; flat