ASVAB Vocabulary
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- AUDACITY
- boldness
- AVARICE
- greed for wealth
- BIGOTRY
- unwillingness to allow others to have different opinions and beliefs from one's own
- BOON
- benefit
- BULWARK
- strong protection
- ACCORD
- agreement
- ALACRITY
- brisk willingness
- APATHY
- indifference
- CHAGRIN
- feeling of deep disappointment
- CLEMENCY
- mercy
- CRUX
- the essential point
- CYNIC
- one who doubts the good intentions of others
- DEARTH
- scarcity
- DILEMMA
- situation requiring a choice between two unpleasant courses of action
- DIN
- loud continuing noise
- DISCORD
- disagreement
- DISSENT
- difference of opinion
- EGOTIST
- one who judges everything only as it affects his own interest; a self-centered person
- ENTERPRISE
- an important project
- EXODUS
- departure, usually of large numbers
- FEUD
- continued deadly hatred
- FIASCO
- complete, humiliating failure
- FIEND
- inhumanly cruel person
- FLAIR
- natural talent (e.g. for sports)
- FORTITUDE
- steady courage (e.g. when in trouble)
- FRAUD
- diliberate deception
- FUROR
- outburst of excitement (e.g. over a discovery)
- GAMUT
- the whole range (e.g. of experiences)
- GAZETTEER
- geographical dictionary, usually accompanying on an atlas
- GHETTO
- section of a city where members of a particular group (formerly religious, now racial) live
- GRIEVANCE
- complaint made against someone responsible for a situation believed to be unjust
- HAVOC
- great damage and distruction (e.g. wreak _____ on)
- HORIZON
- limit (of knowledge, experience, or ambition)
- HYSTERIA
- wild emotional outburst
- IDIOM
- expression peculiar to a language which has a different meaning from the words which make it up (e.g. hit the road)
- IMPETUS
- moving force
- INFIRMITY
- physical defect
- INTRIGUE
- secret plot
- IOTA
- very small amount
- JEOPARDY
- risk of harm
- LARCENY
- theft (e.g. they couldn't decide whether it was grand or petty _____)
- LAYMAN
- one who is not a member of a particular profession (e.g. from the point of veiw of a _____)
- LEGION
- large number
- LIAISON
- contact between two or more groups (e.g. _____ between headquarters and field units)
- LORE
- body of traditional knolege (e.g. nature _____)
- MALADRY
- disease (e.g. incurable ______)
- MANIA
- abnormal absorbtion (e.g. She had a _____ for clothes)
- MAVERICK
- one who acts independently rather than according to an orginizational pattern
- MAXIM
- saying which provides a rule of conduct
- MILIEU
- surroundings
- MORES
- well-established customs (e.g. the _____ of a society)
- OASIS
- a place which provides relief from the usual conditions (e.g. an _____ of peace in a troubled world)
- OBLIVION
- place or condition in which one is completely forgotten
- OVERTURE
- first step, which is intended to lead to others in either action or discussion (e.g. He made a peace _____.)
- PANACEA
- something considered a cure for all diseases or problems
- PARADOX
- statment of truth which appears to contradict itself (e.g. a 20-year-old who had only five birthdays because he was born on February 29).
- PAUCITY
- scarcity (e.g. a _____ of nuclear scientists)
- PAUPER
- very poor person
- PILGRIMAGE
- long trip to some place worthy of respect or devotion
- POISE
- calm and controlled manner of behavior (e.g. He showed _____ in difficult situations.)
- POSTERITY
- future generations (e.g. leave a peaceful world to our _____)
- PRECEDENT
- event or regulation which serves as an example or provides the basis of a later action (e.g. set a _____)
- PRELUDE
- something which is preliminary to some act or work which is more important
- PRETEXT
- reason given as a cover-up for the tru purpose of an action (e.g. He gave as a _____ for stealing it his sentimental attachment to the ring.)
- PROSPECT
- outlook for the future (e.g. the _____ for peace)
- PROVISO
- requirement that something be done, usually made in writing
- QUALM
- uneasy doubt about some action (e.g. He had a _____ about running for office.)
- QUANDARY
- uncertainty over a choice between two courses of action (e.g. He was in a _____ between the careers of law and medicine.)
- QUERY
- question
- RAPPORT
- harmounious relationship (e.g. _____ between teacher and pupil)
- REPAST
- meal
- REPRISAL
- return of something in kind (e.g. _____ for an injury -- "An eye for an eye")
- RESPITE
- temporary break which brings relief (e.g. _____ from work)
- REVERENCE
- feeling of great respect (e.g. _____ for life)
- SANCTION
- approval, usually by proper authority
- SARCASM
- use of cutting remarks
- SATIRE
- attack upon evil or foolis behavior by showing it to be rediculous
- SEMBLANCE
- owtward appearance (e.g. He gave the _____ of a scholar.)
- SHEAF
- bundle either of grain or of papers
- SNARE
- trap
- SOLACE
- comfort (e.g. She found _____ if work.)
- STRATURE
- height reached physically or morally (e.g. a man of great _____)
- STRIFE
- conflict (e.g. _____ between labor and management)
- UPHEAVAL
- sudden overthrow, often violent