week 2
Terms
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- articulate
- expressing oneself readily and effectively
- assuage
- to make(as pain or grief)less ; ease
- ascendant
- a dominat position
- assiduos
- steadily attentive; diligent
- bandy
- to exchange (as words)
- assay
- to test; to analyze
- apostasy
- a renunciation of a former loyalty
- balm
- something that comforts or soothes
- audacious
- daring, bold
- authoritative
- commanding
- avarice
- excessive desire for wealth; greed
- balk
- to stop short and refuse to go on
- bane
- woe, harm, curse
- austere
- stern, severe, strict
- attest
- to confirm
- aphorism
- a short saying stating the general truth
- auspice
- protection
- badger
- to harass or annoy persistently
- autocracy
- self-government
- antipode
- the parts of the earth diametrically opposite
- atrophy
- wasting away of a bodily part or tissue
- autocracy
- government by one persoon having unlimited power
- aplomb
- complete comosure or self assurance
- august
- marked by majestic dignity or grandeur
- apothecary
- druggist, pharmacist
- anneal
- strengthen, toughen
- archive
- a place for keeping public records
- awry
- askew, amiss, off the right course
- arable
- fit for or used for the growing of crops
- atoll
- island which encloses a lagoon
- arduous
- difficuly, laborious
- appall
- to overcome with horrow; dismay
- avow
- to declare openly
- avoirdupois
- bodily weight
- augment
- enlarge, increase
- antithesis
- the opposition or contrast of ideas
- astute
- shrewd
- banal
- commonplace, meaningless
- augur
- soothayer, to predict
- apathy
- lack of emtion of interest
- auspicious
- promising success; favorable
- aspersion
- a slanderous or defamatory remark
- auxiliary
- providing help
- anomaly
- irregularity
- annals
- a record of events in chronological order
- arabesque
- ornate design, ballet postion
- antipathy
- settled aversion or dislike
- atheist
- one who denies the existence of god
- arrears
- overdue debts
- apoplexy
- loss of consciousness