Vocab 4 English 9 Pre AP
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- alacrity
- cheerful willingness
- aversion
- storng dislike, repugnance, antipathy
- involuntary
- not done of ones own free will, unintentional
- loath
- unwilling, averse, reluctant
- loathe
- have an intense aversion to, detest
- volition
- will
- acclivity
- upward slope,
- acme
- highest point, pinnacle, summit
- apogee
- farthest point from Earth in the orbit of a heavenly body/ highest point, culmination
- climactic
- arranged in order of increasing force and interest
- consummate
- perfect, superb, carried to highest degree
- eminence
- high rank
- eminent
- notable, famous
- ethereal
- celestial, airy, delicate
- exalt
- lift up w/ joy or pride
- precipice
- cliff, very steep, overhanging
- precipitous
- steep as a prcipice, hasty/rash
- preeminent
- superior, standing out above all others
- sublimate
- redirect the energy of a person bad impulses into socially and morally higher channels/purify, refine
- sublime
- elevated, noble, uplifting
- vertex
- farthest point opposite the base as in a triangle or pyramid
- zenith
- highest point, culmination, point in heavens directly overhead
- abject
- deserving contempt, wretched
- abysmal
- deep, profound, immeasurably great
- abyss
- bottomless, immeasurably deep space
- anticlimax
- abrupt decline form the dignified/bathos, comedown
- chasm
- deep breach, wide gap or rift
- declivity
- downward slope
- dregs
- most worthless part, sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- earthy
- coarse, low
- humble
- of low position or condition/not proud, unpretentious, modest
- humiliate
- lower the pride or position of, degrade
- humility
- freedom from pride, humbleness, lowliness, modesty
- menial
- low, mean, subserviant
- nadir
- lowest point
- plumb
- get to the bottom of, fathom, ascertain to the depth of
- profound
- very deep, deeply felt, intellectually deep
- ravine
- deep, narrow gorge worn by running water
- filial
- of or like son or daughter
- fraternal
- of or like brother
- genealogy
- lineage, person's descent, pedigree
- gentility
- good manners, upper class
- kith and kin
- kindred, friends and relatives
- maternal
- of or like a mother
- nepotism
- favoritism to relative by those in power
- paternal
- of or like father
- progenitor
- forefather
- progeny
- offspring, descendants
- sibling
- one of 2 or more children of the same family
- aroma
- pleasant odor, bouquet
- aromatic
- sweet-scented, fragrant
- fragrant
- having pleasant odor, pleasant odorous
- fusty
- musty, moldy, stale-smelling, old-fashioned
- incense
- subatance yielding a pleasant odor when burned
- malodorous
- stinking, ill-smelling, fetid
- noisome
- offensive to smell, harmful, noxious, disgusting
- olfactory
- pertaining to the sense of smell
- pungent
- sharp in smell or taste,scrid, biting, stimulating
- 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, extreme
- reek
- emit a strong, disagreeable smell
- scent (nose!)
- smell, perfume
- scent
- get a suspicion of
- unsavory
- unpleasant to taste or smell, morally offensive