vocab4 2
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- audit
- n. examination of accounts
- audacity
- n. courage
- atrophy
- n. wasting away
- asperity
- n. sharpness (of temper)
- atrocity
- n. cruel deed
- arroyo
- n. gully
- aspiration
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n. strong wish or desire
- ascetic
- adj. practicing self-denial adj. austere
- aureole
- n. the ring around the sun n. halo
- ashen
- adj. ash-colored
- autonomous
- adj. self-governing
- ascertain
- vb. find out for certain
- atheistic
- adj. denying the existence of God
- artifact
- n. product of primitive culture
- atypical
- adj. not normal
- articulate
- adj. effective adj. distinct
- attest
- vb. testify vb. supply or be evidence of
- arrogate
- vb. claim without reasonable grounds
- atelier
- n. workshop n. studio
- arrogance
- n. conceitedness
- atavism
- n. resemblance to distant ancestors rather than to parents n. deformity returning after passage of two or more generations
- artifice
- n. deception n. trickery
- astral
- adj. relating to the stars
- ascendancy
- n. controlling influence
- asteroid
- n. small planet
- asceticism
- n. doctrine of self-denial
- automaton
- n. mechanism which imitates actions of humans
- artisan
- n. a manually skilled worker
- assiduous
- adj. done with great care and focus
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askew
- adv. crookedly adv. slanted adv. at an angle
- autocrat
- n. monarch with supreme power
- arrears
- n. being in debt
- astronomical
- ADJ. ENORMOUSLY LARGE OR EXTENSIVE
- aseptic
- adj. preventing putrefaction or blood poisoning by killing bacteria
- augment
- vb. increase
- askance
- adv. with a sideways or indirect look
- austerity
- n. strictness n. severity
- ascribe
- vb. refer vb. attribute vb. assign
- assuage
- vb. ease vb. lessen (pain)
- array
- vb. clothe vb. adorn
- auroral
- adj. pertaining to the aurora borealis
- asinine
- adj. stupid
- auspicious
- adj. favoring success
- assimilate
- vb. absorb vb. cause to become all the same
- assessment
- n. estimation n. estimation of the price of something
- aspirant
- n. seeker after position or status
- attribute
- n. essential quality
- ASTUTE
- adj. wise adj. sly
- authoritative
- adj. having the weight of authority adj. tending to command or rule
- atenuate
- vb. make thin vb. weaken
- aspersion
- n. hateful and false remark
- assay
- vb. to closely examine vb. evaluate
- astringent
- adj. binding adj. cuasing the bending of the muscles
- augury
- n. sign that serves as a warning n. prediction of the future
- authenticate
- vb. prove genuine
- assail
- vb. attack
- attrition
- n. gradual wearing down
- astigmatism
- n. eye defect whcih prevents proper focus
- austere
- adj. strict adj. severe