English Vocabulary Chapter 1 thru 5
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- adjunct
- a subordinate; an assistant
- admonish
- to warn, to caution
- advocate
- to recommend; to speak in favor of
- affiliate
- an associate, partner
- affliction
- anything causing great suffering
- aghast
- feeling great dismay or horror
- alacrity
- liveliness, willingness, eagerness
- alienate
- to make others unfriendly toward you
- allude
- to hint at, to refer to indirectly
- aloof
- reserved, distant
- amalgamate
- to combine
- ambidextrous
- equally skilled with either hand
- anachronism
- something or someone out of its proper time
- animate
- to give life or motion to
- anthropormorphic
- attributing human characteristics or qualities
- antiquated
- no longer used or useful;very old
- aphorism
- a concise statement of a truth or principle
- aplomb
- self-conidence
- bandy
- to give and take quickly in conversation; to toss back and forth
- bane
- to cause of ruin, harm or distress, death
- beget
- to produce; to be the parent oft
- begrudge
- to resent another's success; to give with reluctance
- belated
- delayed
- beleaguer
- to besiege by encircling (as with an army); to harass
- benediction
- a blessing
- beneficiary
- one who receives benefits
- berate
- to scold or rebuke severly and at length
- berserk
- in a state of ciolent or destructive rage
- bias
- a prejudice view (eother for or against) that inhibits impartial judgement
- bibliophile
- a lover for books
- bilk
- to cheat or swindle; to thwart or frustrate
- blatant
- offensively noisy; obvious,too conspicuous
- blight
- anything that destroys, prevents growth, or cause devaluation
- cache
- a hiding place; or things hidden, usually valuable
- cadaverous
- of or like a corpse;pale, gaunt, thin
- calumny
- a false and malicious accusation
- careen
- to lean sideways; to lurch from side to side while in motion
- caricature
- an exaggerated portrayal od one's features
- carnage
- a bloody and extensive murder
- carp
- to complain or to find fault in a petty or nagging way
- catalyst
- a person or thing or agent that speeds up or stimulates a result
- catholic
- universal;wide-ranging
- cavort
- to leap about in a sprightly manner; romp
- chafe
- to irritate as if by friction or rubbing
- charisma
- to possess a great appeal or attraction for others; personal magnetism
- chauvinist
- one who has a fanatical devotion to a country, sex, or religion, with contempt for other countries, the opposite sex or other beliefs
- chicanery
- trickery; the use of clever but tricky talk to deceive or evade
- choleric
- easily angered
- dally
- to waste time;dwadle
- dastardly
- mean and cowardly