Vocab review 1-5
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- to give consent without protest and without enthusiasm
- acquiesce
- a natural attraction of liking for a person or thing; a close relationship
- affinity
- to increase in power, prestige or wealth
- aggrandize
- self-denial; a giving up or renunciation
- abnegation
- overly high praise; excessive flattery
- adulation
- to emphasize; to stress
- accentuate
- a story in which people, setting, and actions represent ideas or moral qualities
- allegory
- eager to acquire; grasping
- acquisitive
- temporary inactivity; a state of being set aside; suspension
- abeyance
- at annul; to repeal by authority
- abrogate
- a formal ban or curse by the church on a person or doctrine
- anathema
- concerned with the welfare of others; unselfish
- altruistic
- a departure from what is common or normal; anything irregular or abnormal
- anomaly
- open hatred; ill will
- animosity
- a sentence to express a wise or clever observation
- aphorism
- an indirect reference; a casual mention
- allusion
- the direct opposite; the contrast of two opposites
- antithesis
- to make better; to improve
- ameliorate
- an angry arguement
- altercation
- a person or thing that is chronologically out of place, or out of its proper historical time
- anachronism
- a false statement made to injure someone's reputation; slander
- calumny
- fanatical patriotism
- chauvinism
- substance that burns; sharp and biting wit
- caustic
- a government run by many departments
- bureaucracy
- easily angered; bad tempered
- choleric
- to criticize severely; to punish; to berate
- castigate
- to draw a line around
- circumscribe
- pushy; crudely and unpleasantly forward
- bumptious
- swiftness in acting; speed; rapidity
- celerity
- corpselike; pale and ghostly
- cadaverous