Vocab - Page 65-71

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Alacrity?

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cheerful willingness; readiness; liveliness

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Aversion

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strong dislike; repugnance; antipathy

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involuntary

Back 3

not of one's own free will; automatic; unintention; spontaneous (ant. in voluntary)

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loath

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unwilling; averse; disinclined; reluctant

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loathe

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have an intense aversion to; detest

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volition

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will

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acclivity

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upward slope (ant. declivity)

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acme

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highest point; pinnacle; summit

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apogee

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1.farthest point from earth in orbit of a heavenly body (ant. Perigee)

2. highest point; culmination

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climactic

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arranged in order of increaing force and intrest (ant. anticlimactic)

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consummate

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perfect; superb; carried to the highest degree

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eminence

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high rank

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eminent

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standing out; notable; famous

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ethereal

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of the heavens; celestial; airy; delicate; intangible

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exalt

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lift up with joy, pride, ect., elate (ant. humiliate)

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precipice

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very steep, overhanging place; cliff

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precipitous

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steep as a precipice

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preeminent

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standing out above others; superior

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sublimate

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redirect the energy of a persons bad impulses into socially and morally higher channels

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sublime

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elevated; noble; exalted; uplifting

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vertex

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farthest point opposite from the base, as in a triangle or pyramid; apex

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zenith

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1.highest point, culmuination (ant. nadir)
2. point in heavens directly overhead

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abject

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deserving contempt; sunk to a low condition; wretched

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abysmal

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deep; profound; immeasurabley great

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abyss

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bottomless; immeasuably deep space

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anticlimax

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abrupt decline from the dignified or important to the trivial or ludicrous; comedown; bathos (ant. climax)

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chasm

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deep breach; wide gap or rift

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declivity

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downward slope (ant. acclivity)

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dregs

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most worthless part; sediment at the bottom of a liquid

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earthy

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coarse; low

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humble

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1.of low position or condition
2. not proud; unpretentious; modest; courteously respectful

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humiliate

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lower pride, position, or dignity of, abase; degrade; mortify (ant.exalt)

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humility

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freedom of pride; humbleness; lowliness; modesty

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menial

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low; mean; subservient; servile

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nadir

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lowest point (ant. zenith)

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plumb

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get to the bottom of; ascertain the depth of; fathom

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Profound

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very deep; deeply felt; intellectually deep

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ravine

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deep, narrow gorge worn by running water

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filial

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of like a son or daughter

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fraternal

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of or like a brother

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genealogy

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a person's or family's descent; lineage; pedigree

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gentility

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1.good manners
2.gentry; upper class

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kith and kin

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friends and relatives; kindred

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maternal

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of or like a mother

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neopotism

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favoritism to relatives by those in power

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paternal

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of or like a father

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progenitor

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forefather

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progeny

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offspring; children; decendants

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sibling

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one or two or more children of a family

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aroma

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pleasent odor; boquet

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aromatic

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sweet-scented; fragrant

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fragrant

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having a pleasant odor; pleasantly odorous or odoriferous

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fusty

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1.stale-smelling; musty; moldy
2.old-fashioned

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incense

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substance yielding a pleasant odor when burned

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malodorous

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ill-smellingl stinking; fetid; unpleasntly odorous

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noisome

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1.offensive to smell; disgusting
2.harmful; noxious

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olfactory

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pertaining to the sense of smell

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pungent

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sharp in smell or taste; acrid; biting; stimulating

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putrid

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1.Stinking from decay
2.extremly bad; corrupt

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rancid

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unpleasnt to smell or taste from being spolied or stale

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rank

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1. having a strong, bad odor or taste; offensively gross or coarse
2.extreme

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reek

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emit a strong, disagreeable smell; be pereated with

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scent

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smell; perfume

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scent (verb)

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get a suspicion of

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unsavory

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1. unpleasnt to taste or smell
2. morally offensive