Pre-AP English 9
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- alacrity
- cheerful willingness; readiness; liveliness
- aversion
- strong dislike; repugnance; antipathy
- involuntary
- not done of one's own free will; automatic; unintentional; spontaneous
- loath
- unwilling; averse; disinclined; reluctant
- loathe
- have an intense aversion to; detest
- volition
- will
- acclivity
- upward slope
- ACME
- HIGHEST POINT; PINNACLE; SUMMIT
- APOGEE
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1. FARTHEST POINT FROM THE EARTH IN THE ORBIT OF A HEAVENLY BODY
2.HIGHEST POINT; CULMINATION - CLIMACTIC
- ARRANGED IN ORDER OF INCREASING FORCE AND INTREST
- CONSUMMATE
- PERFECT; SUPERB; CARRIED TO THE HIGHEST DEGREE
- EMINENCE
- HIGH RANK
- EMINENT
- STANDING OUT; NOTABLE; FAMOUS
- ETHEREAL
- OF THE HEAVENS; CELESTIAL; AIRY; DELICATE; INTANGIBLE
- EXALT
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1. LIFT UP WITH JOY, PRIDE, ETC.; ELATE
2.RAISE IN RANK, DIGNITY, ETC.; EXTOL; GLORIFY - PRECIPICE
- VERY STEEP, OVERHANGING PLACE; CLIFF
- PRECIPITOUS
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1. STEEP AS A PRECIPICE
2.HASTY; RASH - PREEMINENT
- STANDING OUT ABOVE OTHERS; SUPERIOR
- SUBLIMATE
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1. REDIRECT THE ENEGY OF A PERSON'S BAD IMPULSES INTO SOCIALLY AND MORALLY HIGHER CHANNELS
2. PURIFY; REFINE - SUBLIME
- ELEVATED; NOBLE; EXALTED; UPLIFTING
- VERTEX
- FARTHEST POINT OPPOSITE THE BASE, AS IN A TRIANGLE OR PYRAMID; APEX
- ZENITH
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1. HIGHEST POINT; CULMINATION
2. POINT IN THE HEAVENS DIRECTLY OVERHEAD - ABJECT
- DESERVING CONTEMPT; SUNK TO A LOW CONDITION; WRETCHED
- ABYSMAL
- DEEP; PROFOUND; IMMEASURABLY GREAT
- ABYSS
- BOTTOMLESS; IMMEASURABLY DEEP SPACE
- ANTICLIMAX
- ABRUPT DECLINE FROM THE DIGNIFIED OR IMPORTANT TO THE TRIVIAL OR LUDICROUS; COMEDOWN; BATHOS
- CHASM
- DEEP BREACH; WIDE GAP OR RIFT
- DECLIVITY
- DOWNWARD SLOPE
- DREGS
- MOST WORTHLESS PART; SEDIMENT AT THE BOTTOM OF LIQUID
- EARTHY
- COARSE; LOW
- HUMBLE
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1. OF LOW POSITION OR CONDITION
2. NOT PROUD; UNPRETENTIOUS; MODEST; COURTEOUSLY RESPECTFUL - HUMILIATE
- LOWER THE PRIDE, POSITION, OR DIGNITY OF; ABASE; DEGRADE; MORTIFY
- HUMILITY
- FREEDOM FROM PRIDE; HUMBLENESS; LOWLINESS; MODESTY
- MENIAL
- LOW; MEAN; SUSERVIENT; SERVILE
- NADIR
- LOWEST POINT
- PLUMB
- GET TO THE BOTTOM OF; ASCERTAIN THE DEPTH OF; FATHOM
- PROFOUND
- VERY DEEP; DEEPLY FELT; INTELLECTUALLY DEEP
- 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 OR FAMILY'S DESCENT; LINEAGE; PEDIGREE
- GENTILITY
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1. GOOD MANNERS
2. GENTRY; UPPER CLASS - KITH AND KIN
- FRIENDS AND RELATIVES; KINDRED
- MATERNAL
- OF OR LIKE A MOTHER
- NEPOTISM
- 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; bouquet
- AROMATIC
- SWEET-SCENTED; FRAGRANT
- FUSTY
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1. STALE-SMELLING; MUSTY; MOLDY
2. OLD FASHIONED - INCENSE
- SUBSTANCE YIELDING A PLEASANT ODOR WHEN BURNED
- MALODOROUS
- ILL-SMELLING; STINKING; FETID; UNPLEASANTLY ODOROUS
- NOISOME
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1. OFFENSIVE TO SMELL; DISGUSTING
2. HARMFUL; NOXIOUS - OLFACTORY
- PERTAINING TO THE SENSE OF SMELL
- PUNGENT
- SHARP IN SMELL OR TASTE; ACRID; BITING; STIMULATING
- PUTRID
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1. STINKING FROM DECAY
2. EXTREMELY BAD; CORRUPT - RANCID
- UNPLEASANT TO SMELL OR TASTE FROM BEING SPOILED OR STALE
- RANK
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1. HAVING A STRONG, BAD ODOR OR TASTE; OFFENSIVELY GROSS OR COARSE
2. EXTREME - REEK
- EMIT A STRONG, DISAGREEABLE SMELL; BE PERMEATED WITH
- SCENT
- GET SUSPICION OF
- UNSAVORY
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1. UNPLEASANT TO TASTE OR SMELL
2. MORALLY OFFENSIVE