vocab test 3 - pg 65 - 71
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- alacrity
- cheerful willingness, readiness, liveliness
- aversion
- strong dislike
- involuntary
- not done of one's own free will, automatic, unintentional
- loath
- unwilling, averse, disinclined, reluctant
- loathe
- have an intense dislike for, detest
- volition
- will
- acclivity
- upward slope
- acme
- highest point, summit, peak
- apogee
- fathest point from the earth in the orbit of a heavenly body; highest point, culmination
- climatic
- arranged in order of increasing force and interest
- cosummate
- perfect, superb, carried to the highest degree
- eminence
- high rank
- eminent
- standing out, notable, famous
- etheral
- of the heavens, celestial, airy
- exalt
- lift up with joy, pride, etc.
- precipice
- very steep, overhanging place, cliff
- preciptious
- steep as a precipice; hasty, rush
- preeminent
- standing above all others, superior
- sublimate
- redirect the energy of a person's bad impulses into socially adn morally higher channels
- sublime
- elevated, noble, exalted, uplifting
- vertex
- farthest point opposite the base, apex
- zenith
- highest point, culmination, point in the heavens directly overhead
- abject
- deserving contempt, sunk to a low condition, wretched
- absymal
- deep, profound
- abyss
- bottomless, very deep
- anticlimax
- abrupt decline, comedown
- chasm
- deep breach, wide gap or rift
- declivity
- downward slope
- dregs
- most worthless part, sediment at the bottom of a fluid
- earthy
- coarse, low
- humble
- of low position or condition, not proud
- humiliate
- lower the pride, position, or dignity of
- humility
- freedom of pride, humbleness, lowliness, modesty
- menial
- ;ow, mean, subservient, servile
- nadir
- lowest point
- plumb
- get to the bottom of
- profound
- very deep, deeply felt
- ravine
- deep, narrow gorge worn by running water
- filial
- of or like a son or daughter
- fraternal
- of or like a brother
- genealogy
- a person's of families descent, linegae
- gentility
- good manners
- kilth and kin
- friends and relatives, kindred
- maternal
- of or like a mother
- neopotism
- favoritism to relatives by those in power
- paternal
- of or like a father
- progenitor
- forefather
- progeny
- offspring, children, descendants
- sibling
- one of two or more children of a family
- aroma
- pleasant odor
- aromatic
- sweet-scented, fragrant
- fragrant
- having a pleasant odor
- fusty
- stale-smelling, musty
- inscense
- substance yielding a pleasant odor when burned
- malodorus
- ill-smelling, stinking, fetid
- noisome
- offensive to smell
- olfactory
- pertaining to the sense of smell
- pungent
- sharp in smell or test
- putrid
- stinking from decay; extremely bad, corrupt
- rancid
- unpleasant to smell or taste from being spoiled or stale
- rank
- having a strong, bad odor or taste, offensively gross or coarse
- reek
- emit a strong, disagreeable smell
- scent (v)
- get a suspicion of
- unsavory
- unpleasant to taste of smell; morally offensive