Wordfest! Units 1-10
Terms
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- charisma
- (n.) personal magnetism
- bellicose
- (adj.) aggressive; warlike
- advocate
- (v.) to recommend; to plead for (n.) a supporter; someone who argues for a cause
- antecedent
- (n.) something that comes before
- ambivalent
- (adj.) having conflicting feelings
- contentious
- (adj.) causing quarrels
- adverse
- (adj.) unfavorable; harmful
- conformity
- (n.) harmony; agreement
- candor
- (n.) honesty of expression
- clemency
- (n.) leniency
- amicable
- (adj.) friendly
- apathy
- (n.) indifference
- assuage
- (v.) to make less severe
- benign
- (adj.) harmless; kind
- cajole
- (v.) to coax; to persuade
- circumvent
- (v.) to avoid
- arcane
- (adj.) secret; obscure
- aversion
- (n.) intense dislike
- advent
- (n.) arrival or coming
- aberration
- (n.) something different from the usual
- concur
- (v.) to agree
- antipathy
- (n.) dislike
- benevolent
- (adj.) generous; charitable
- anarchy
- (n.) lawlessness
- clandestine
- (adj.) secret
- charlatan
- (n.) a fake; a quack
- assertion
- (n.) declaration that something is true
- bureaucracy
- (n.) administration of a government or a large complex organization; inflexible management
- abstruse
- (adj.) difficult to comprehend
- augment
- (v.) to increase
- contention
- (n.) assertion; controversy
- affirmation
- (n.) positive declaration; confirmation
- authoritarian
- (adj.) having total control
- caricature
- (n.) exaggerated portrait (v.) to represent in an exaggerated and distorted manner
- censure
- (v.) to blame; to criticize
- buttress
- (v.) to reinforce; to support
- condone
- (v.) to overlook; to forgive
- coherent
- (adj.) understandable; sticking together
- cathartic
- (adj.) purifying; cleansing
- accede
- (v.) to agree to
- conclusive
- (adj.) decisive; ending all dispute
- ascendancy
- (n.) power; state of rising
- austere
- (adj.) unadorned; stern
- conjecture
- (n.) conclusion reached without proof
- acme
- (n.) highest point
- concede
- (v.) to admit; to yield
- archaic
- (adj.) out of date
- comprehensive
- (adj.) thorough
- acrimony
- (n.) bitterness; hostility
- acquiesce
- (v.) to agree without protesting
- aspire
- (v.) to aim at a goal
- capitulate
- (v.) to surrender
- capricious
- (adj.) fickle
- bourgeois
- (adj.) typical of the middle class (n.) member of the middle class
- contravene
- (v.) to act contrary to; to violate
- acclaim
- (n.) applause; approval, (v.) to praise or acknowledge enthusiastically
- articulate
- (adj.) clear and effective in speech (v.) to express in a coherent verbal form
- arbitrary
- (adj.) unreasonable; selected randomly
- appease
- (v.) to calm; to pacify
- abstract
- (adj.) theoretical; not concrete; difficult to understand, (n.) a statement summarizing the important points of a text, (v.) to remove; to consider without referring to a specific example
- alleviate
- (v.) to relieve; to improve somewhat
- coercion
- (n.) use of force
- cognition
- (n.) mental process by which knowledge is acquired
- anomaly
- (n.) irregularity
- altruistic
- (adj.) selfless; generous
- assessment
- (n.) estimation; evaluation
- cogent
- (adj.) convincing; logically compelling
- bolster
- (v.) to prop up; to support
- affable
- (adj.) good-natured; easy to approach
- antagonistic
- (adj.) hostile
- collaborate
- (v.) to work together
- adroit
- (adj.) skillful
- chimerical
- (adj.) fantastic; highly imaginative; illusory; fanciful
- artifice
- (n.) trickery
- affluent
- (adj.) wealthy; abundant
- autonomous
- (adj.) self-governing
- ambiguous
- (adj.) doubtful or unclear
- attribute
- (n.) essential quality (v.) to explain by indicating a cause
- antiquated
- (adj.) obsolete
- aesthetic
- (adj.) pertaining to beauty or art
- alienated
- (adj.) feeling emotionally removed
- chauvinism
- (n.) fanatical patriotism; prejudiced belief in the superiority of a group
- bigotry
- (n.) intolerance
- asceticism
- (n.) self-denial
- conviction
- (n.) fixed belief
- catalyst
- (n.) something causing change
- bias
- (n.) prejudice (v.) to influence
- conciliatory
- (adj.) overcoming distrust or hostility
- burgeon
- (v.) to flourish
- banal
- (adj.) commonplace; unoriginal
- analogous
- (adj.) comparable
- compliant
- (adj.) yielding
- chronic
- (adj.) constant; prolonged
- conventional
- (adj.) customary
- antithesis
- (n.) opposite of
- astute
- (adj.) shrewd
- allude
- (v.) to refer indirectly
- consensus
- (n.) general agreement
- animosity
- (n.) hostility; hatred
- ameliorate
- (v.) to improve