Vocabulary Pg 65-71
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cheerful willingness; readiness; liveliness
ex: Dr. Burke's class is one which pupils attend with alacrity and leace with reluctance. - alacrity
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strong dislike; repugnance; antipathy
ex: Philip's aversion to worl led to his dismissal - aversion
- not done of one's own free will; automatic; unintentinal; spontaneous(ant. voluntary)
- involuntary
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unwillng; averse; disclined; reluctant
ex: We were loath to leave our friends, but my father's tracsfer to California left us no choice. - loath
- have an intense aversion to; detest
- loathe
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will
ex: Were you discharged or did you leave of your own volition? - volition
- upward slope
- acclivity
- highest point; pinnacle; summit
- acme
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1. farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a heavenly body (ant. perigee)
2. higest point; culimation - apogee
- arranged in order of increasing force and interest (ant. anticlimactic)
- climactic
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perfect; superb; carried to the highest degree
ex: The pilot guided the plane onto the runway with comsummate skill. - consummate
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high rank
ex: Raised suddenly to an eminence for which he was ill qualified, the executive could not get along with his new subordinates. - eminence
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standing out; notable; famous
ex: Emily Dickson was an eminent poet. - eminent
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of the heavens; celestial; airy; delicate; intangible
ex: Charles was told by his employer, "Get rid of your ethereal notions and come down to earth." - ethereal
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1. lift up with joy, pride, etc.; elate (ant. humiliate)
2. rise in rank, dignity, etc.; extol; glorify
Some films have exalted criminals to the level of heroes. - exalt
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very steep, overhanging place; cliff
ex: The climbers had to make a lengthy detour around an insurmountable precipice. - precipice
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1. steep as a precipice
ex: She descended from the summit in low gear, using her brakes all the way, since the road was so precipitous.
2. hasty; rash
ex: Dont rush into a precipitous action that you may later regret. T - precipitous
- standing out above others; superior
- preeminent
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1. redirect the energy of a person's bad impulses into socially and morally higher channels
2. purify; refine - sublimate
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elevated; noble; exalted; uplifting
ex: Visitors to the Grand Canyon are uplifted and refreshed by its sublime scenery - sublime
- farthest point opposite the base, as in triangle or pyramid; apex
- vertex
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1. highest point; culmination (nadir)
2. point in the heavens directly overhead. - zenith
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deserving contempt; sunk to a low condition - abject
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deep; profound; imeeasurably great. - abysmal
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bottomless, immeasurably deep space
ex: The sudden death of his closest friend threw Tennyson into an abyss of despair. - abyss
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abrupt decline from the dignified or important to the trivial or ludicrous; comedown; bathos - anticlimatic
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deep breach; wide gap or rift - chasm
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downward slope - declivity
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most worthless part; sediment at the bottom of a liquid - dregs
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coarse; low - earthy
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1. of low position or condition
2. not proud; unpretentious; modest; courteously respectful - humble
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v.
lower the pride, position, or dignity of; abase; degrade; mortify (ant. exalt) - humiliate
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freedom from pride; humbleness; lowliness; modesty - humility
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low; mean; subservant; servile - menial
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lowest point (ant. zenith) - nadir
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get to the bottom of ascertain the depth of; fathom - plumb
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very deep; deeply felt; interllectually deep - profound
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deep, narrow gorge worn by running water - ravine
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of or like a son or daughter - filial
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of or like a brother - fraternal
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a person's or family's descent; lineage; pedigree - genealogy
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friends and relatives; kindred - kith and kin
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of or like a mother - maternal
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favortism to relatives by those in power - nepotism
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of or like a father - paternal
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forefather - progenitor
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offspring; children; descendants - progeny
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one of two or more children of a family - sibling
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pleasant odor; bouquet - aroma
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sweet-scented; fragrant - aromatic
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having a pleasant odor; pleasantly odorous or odoriferous - fragrant
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1. stale-smelling; musty; moldy
2. old-fashioned - fusty
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substance yielding a pleasant odor when burned - incense
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ill-smelling; stinking; fetid; unpleasant odorous - malodorous
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1. offensive to smell; disgusting
2. harmful; noxious - noisome
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pertaining to the sense of smell - olfactory
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sharp in smell ot taste; acrid; biting; stimulating - pungent
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1. stinking from decay
2. extremely bad; corrupt - putrid
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1. having a strong, bad odor or taste; offensively gross or coarse
2. extreme - rank
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v.
emit a strong, disagreeable smell; be permeated with - reek
- smell; perfume
- scent
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v.
get a suspicion - scent
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adj.
1. unpleasant to taste or smell
2. morally offensive - unsavory