vocab midterm review (revised)
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- AMASS
- to bring together, collect, gather
- COMPLY
- to yield to a request or command
- ELITE
- the choice part of a group of people or things
- GRAPPLE
- to come to grips with, wrestle or fight with
- INSTIGATE
- to deprive of strength or ability
- LONGEVITY
- long life, long duration, length of life
- MYRIAD
- in very great numbers
- PERSPECTIVE
- a point of view or general standpoint from which different things are viewed, physically or mentally
- PERTURB
- to trouble easily, disturb, make uneasy
- TETHER
- to fasten with a rope or chain
- UNISON
- a sounding together;agreement or accord
- WILLFUL
- stubbornly self willed, done on purpose, deliberate
- DEPLORE
- to feel or express regret or disapproval
- FRIVOLOUS
- of little importance, not worthy of serious attention
- NONENTITY
- a person or thing of no importance
- OUST
- to remove, drive out of place or position
- PERUSE
- to read thoroughly and carefully
- POROUS
- full of tiny holes, able to be penetrated by air or water
- PRONE
- lying face down, inclined or likely
- RECOURSE
- a person or thing turned to for help or advice
- RESIDUE
- a remainder, that which remains when a part has been used up or removed
- STAID
- serious and dignified, quiet or subdued in character or conduct
- SUSTAIN
- to support, nourish, keep up
- AMPLE
- more than enough
- ASSERT
- to declare or state as truth, maintain or defend, put forward forcefully
- COWER
- to crouch or shrink away from in fear or shame
- DISDAIN
- to look upon with scorn
- FACETIOUS
- humorous, not meant seriously
- INTRIGUE
- to puzzle or excite the curiosity
- JURISDICTION
- an area of authority or control
- PLAUSIBLE
- appearing true, reasonable
- PLEBEIAN
- a common person, member of the lower class
- PULVERIZE
- to destroy or overcome
- SEQUEL
- that which follows, a literary work or film continuing the story of one written or made earlier
- VOLATILE
- high changeable, fickle
- ARTICULATE
- to pronounce distinctly and clearly
- BASK
- to be in, or expose oneself to pleasant warmth
- FINESSE
- delicate skill, cleverness
- OSTRACIZE
- to exclude from a group, banish, send away
- PREMONITION
- a forewarning or foreboding of a future event
- REHABILITATE
- to restore to good condition or a former position or state
- RESOLUTE
- bord, determined, firm