Webster Essential Vocabulary - Wordlist 88

Front 1

advocate

Back 1

vt. to speak or write in favor of something; n. a person who pleads the case of another or who supports a specific action

Front 2

affinity

Back 2

1. close relationship; connection; 2. similarity of structure; 3. affection; liking for

Front 3

affirm

Back 3

1. declare to be true; assert the truth of; 2. to confirm; uphold; ratify

Front 4

aggrandize

Back 4

1. to make greater, richer, more powerful; 2. to make seem richer

Front 5

agronomy

Back 5

management of farmland; the science of producing crops

Front 6

allegory

Back 6

a story in which people, things, and ideas have hidden meanings, often used as a way of teaching values

Front 7

alleviate

Back 7

1. to lighten; make less hard to bear; 2. to reduce or lessen pain

Front 8

allocate

Back 8

1. to earmark to set aside for a specific purpose; 2. to distribute; mete out

Front 9

alloy

Back 9

1. to fuse two or more metals to form one that possesses new properties; 2. to reduce the pureness of a rare metal by fusing it with a less precious one

Front 10

amalgamate

Back 10

1. to join together into one; to unite; to combine; 2. to alloy into an amalgam

Front 11

ameliorate

Back 11

to make or become better; to improve