English 10 Vocabulary 2
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- Abdicate
- to surrender; to formally give up throne, high office, responsibility, or function.
- Abet
- To encourage or support; to urge on in the achievement of a purpose; especially to help especially in wrongdoing.
- Abrige
- To shorten in duration or extent; to shorten by omission of words without sacrificing the sence of the text.
- Accolade
- A ceremony marking the recognition of special merit; an award or sulute
- Acrimonious
- Bitter or harsh in temper, manner, or speech
- Admonish
- To warn or criticize mildly
- Affable
- Easy to approach and talk to; agreeable in manner
- Affinity
- A natural attraction; kinship; similarity
- Affluent
- Prosperous, wealthy, rich
- Altercation
- To argue vehemently; a heated quarrel
- Ambiance
- Mood, feeling, general atmosphere
- Ambiguous
- Unclear; vague; capable of being interpreted in more then one way
- Amenable
- Willing to yield or submit; easily led
- Amiable
- Having a friendly, pleasent disposition; sociable
- Animosity
- A feeling of strong dislike or hatred
- Antecedent
- Going before; preceding; an occurence or event preceding another
- Antithesis
- A contrast; the direct opposite
- Archaic
- Belonging to an earlier time; ancient; outdated
- Adruous
- Hard, difficult, tiresome
- Articulate
- To speak clearly or distinctly
- Assuage
- To sooth; to make less severe; to satisfy, ease, lessen
- Atrophy
- To wither away
- Austere
- Stern, as in manner; without excess, unadorned, severly simple plain
- Avarice
- Excessive greed; insatiable desire for wealth
- Belittle
- To speak of or think of as unimportent; to put someone down
- Bellicose
- Inclined to quarrel; warlike
- Benevolent
- Kindly; charitable
- Blithe
- gay and lighthearted in spirit or mood
- Cache
- A hiding place, or the objects hidden in a hiding place
- Cacophonous
- Unharmonious sounding; harsh sounding
- Callous
- Unfeeling or insensitive; hardend and thinkened
- Candid
- Free from bias, prejudice, or malice; frank
- Capricious
- Inclined through some whim, to change one's mind, purpose, or actions suddenly
- Castigate
- To criticize harshly, usually with the intention of correcting wrongdoing
- Catharsis
- An emotional or phychological cleansing that brings relief or renewal
- Caucus
- A meeting of a political party to make decisions; to assemble in/hold a caucus
- Chattel
- An item of personal, movable property; slave
- Chronic
- Continuing for a long time; habitual; always present
- Circumspect
- Cauctious; careful to consider all circumstances and consequences
- Circumvent
- To gain an advantage by trickery; to evade by deception; to go around
- Clandestine
- Secret; Stealthy
- Coercion
- Compelling a person by actual or threatend violence or pressure to do something against his will
- Collusion
- Working together secretly for an evil purpose
- Commodious
- Roomy; Compfortably or convienently spacious
- Complacent
- Self-satisfied; narrowly contented with one's own accomplishments, beliefs
- Comprise
- To consist of; to include, to contain, to be made up of
- Condone
- To forgive or overlook, voluntarily
- Congenial
- Possessing similar temperament and tastes; able to get along with others; agreeable
- Conjecture
- To guess, based on incomplete information
- Consecrate
- To set apart as sacred; to devote or dedicate to some aim
- Consensus
- General agreement; collective opinion
- Consternation
- Great fear or shock that makes one feel helpless or bewiledered
- Construe
- To interprete; to explain the sense of, or analyze
- Coup
- The violent overthrow of a government by a small group; a victorious accomplisment
- Craven
- A thorough coward
- Credible
- Worthy of belief
- Culpable
- Deserve blame or condemnation
- Curtail
- To truncate or abridge; to lessen, usually by cutting away from
- Cynical
- Denying the sincerity of people's motives and actions
- Dearth
- Scarcity; a lack of