Barrons 5 (Astral to Barb)
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- astronomical
- inconceivably large
- bandy
- discuss glibly; exchange words heatedly
- attenuate
- v. make (sth/sb) thin or slender; weaken; reduce in value; enervate
- axiom
- n. statement that is accepted as true without further proof or argument
- aureole
- sun's corona; halo
- atrocity
- n. great wickedness or cruelty
- awl
- n. small pointed tool for making holes, esp in leather or wood
- asylum
- n. safety; refuge
- avert
- v. ~ turn away; prevent occurrence of
- backslide
- v. lapse from good ways into one's former bad ways of living; revert
- attentive
- adj. ~ giving attention (to sb/sth); alert and watchful
- auroral
- [ aurora: ] an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands, curtains, or streamers of light, usually green, red, or yellow, that move across the sky in polar regions.
- automaton
- n. = robot, someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
- balm
- n. sweet-smelling oil or ointment obtained from certain types of tree, used for soothing pain or for healing ,
- autopsy
- n. examination of a dead body to learn the cause of death; post-mortem ()
- attire
- n. clothes; dress
- austere
- adj. severely and strictly moral; having no pleasures or comforts
- baffle
- v. be too difficult for to understand; puzzle
- avarice
- n. greed for wealth or gain
- augury
- omen; prophecy; an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; a sign of something coming up.
- astute
- adj. clever and quick at seeing how to gain an advantage; shrewd
- avuncular
- adj. of or like an uncle, esp in manner
- babble
- v. talk in a way that is difficult or impossible to understand
- autocrat
- n. ruler of an autocracy
- aviary
- n. large cage or building for keeping birds in, eg in a zoo ,
- atrophy
- n. wasting away of the body or part of it through lack of nourishment or use
- asymmetric
- adj. not having parts that correspond to each other in size, shape, etc; lacking symmetry
- august
- majestic, venerable
- azure
- n. , adj bright blue, as of the sky
- banal
- adj. commonplace; uninteresting
- atheistic
- adj. rejecting any belief in god
- awe
- n. feeling of respect combined with fear or wonder
- atavism
- n. reappearance in a person of a characteristic or quality that has not been seen in his family for many generations
- bank
- n. land sloping up along each side of a river or canal; ground near a river
- avid
- adj. ~ eager; greedy
- averse
- adj. ~ to sth not liking sth; opposed to sth, reluctant; disinclined; not liking
- bar
- n. piece of solid material
- baleful
- adj. threatening evil or harm; menacing
- audit
- n. official examination of accounts to see that they are in order
- avenge
- v. take or get revenge for
- bacchanal
- n. (dated or fml ) bout of noisy, drunken merrymaking . bacchana-lian adj
- avalanche
- n. mass of snow, ice and rock that slides rapidly down the side of a mountain
- awry
- adv. crookedly; out of position; askew ;
- authoritarian
- characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule
- augment
- v. make (sth) larger in number or size; increase
- balk
- stop short, recoil, thwart
- bantering
- Adj. good-natured ridiculing e.g. bantering tone
- ballast
- n. heavy material placed in a ship's hold to keep it steady
- badger
- v. Pester. n. animal of the weasel family, grey with black and white stripes on its head, living in holes in the ground and moving about at night .
- austerity
- n. quality of being austere
- attest
- v. ~ (to) sth be or give clear proof of sth
- auxiliary
- adj. giving help or support; additional
- atypical
- adj. not representative or characteristic of its type; not typical
- avocation
- secondary or minor occupation
- barb
- n. point of an arrow, a fish-hook, etc curved backwards to make it difficult to pull out .
- astral
- adj. of or from the stars
- avow
- v. declare (sth) openly; admit
- attrition
- n. process of gradually weakening sb's strength and confidence by continuous harassment
- authenticate
- to verify. prove genuine
- asunder
- adv. into pieces; apart
- badinage
- playful repartee , banter
- auspicious
- adj. showing signs of future success; favourable; promising
- aver
- v. (fml ) state (sth) firmly and positively; assert ;
- atone
- v. ~ (fml ) act in a way that compensates for a previous wrong, error, etc
- bane
- n. the bane of sb's existence/life cause of sb's ruin or trouble
- aversion
- n. ~ strong dislike
- autocratic
- adj. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
- awful
- adj. extremely bad or unpleasant; terrible
- authoritative
- having the weight of authority; regarded as providing knowledge that can be trusted; reliable; peremptory and dictatorial
- audacious
- adj. showing a willingness to take risks; daring; fearless
- astringent
- n. substance, used medically or in cosmetics, that makes skin or body tissue contract and so stops bleeding
- balmy
- adj. (of air) gentle and pleasantly warm
- bait
- n. food or imitation food put on a hook to catch fish or placed in nets, traps, etc to attract prey
- autonomous
- adj. self-governing; acting independently
- attribute
- v. ~ sth to sb/sth regard sth as belonging to, caused by or produced by sb/sth