Vocabulary Test 1
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- adjuration
- N. solemn urging
- admonish
- V. warn; reprove
- adroit
- Adv. skillful
- adulation
- N. flattery; admiration
- adulterate
- V. To make impure by mixing with baser substances
- adumbration
- N. Foreshadowing; outlining
- adventitious
- Adj. accidental; casual
- adverse
- Adj. unfavorable; hostile
- adversity
- N. poverty; misfortune
- advocate
- V. to urge; plead for
- aesthetic
- adj. artistic
- affected
- adj. artificial; pretended
- affiliation
- N. joining; associating with
- affinity
- N. kinship
- affirmation
- N. solemn avowal by one who refuses to take an oath
- affluence
- N. abundance; wealth
- affray
- N. public brawl
- agape
- adj. open-mouthed
- agglomeration
- N. collection; heap
- aggrandize
- v. increase or intensify
- aggregate
- adj. sum; total
- aghast
- adj. horrified
- agility
- n. nimbleness
- agitate
- v. stir up; disturb
- agnostic
- N. one who doubts the existence or known ability of a god or any ultimate reality.
- alacrity
- N. cheerful promptness
- albeit
- conj. although
- alchemy
- n. medieval chemistry
- alias
- n. an assumed name
- alienate
- v. to make hostile; seperate
- alimentary
- adj. supplying nourishment
- alimony
- N. payment by a husband to his divorced wife
- allay
- v. calm; pacify
- allege
- v. state as a fact
- allegory
- n. a story in which the characters are used as a symbol; fable
- AB, ABS
- (from, away from) prefix
- abduct
- lead away, kidnap
- abjure
- renounce (swear away from)
- abject
- degraded (thrown away from)
- ABLE, IBLE
- (capable of) adj. suffix
- portable
- able to be carried
- legible
- able to be read
- interminable
- unable to be ended
- AC,IC
- (like, pertaining to) adj suffix
- cardiac
- pertaining to heart
- aquatic
- pertaining to water
- dramatic
- pertaining to drama
- ACR
- (sharp)
- acrimonious
- bitter