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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 capricious | tending to change one's mind suddenly |
| esoteric | understood by only a few |
| arable | fit to grow plants on |
| audacity | boldness |
| atrophy | to waste away |
| amity | peaceful relations, friendship |
| ameliorate | to make better, to improve |
| amicable | friendly |
| abridge | to shorten, condense |
| ascend | to move upwards |
| augment | to add to, increase |
| adulterate | to add impurities to |
| ambiguous | having more then one meaning |
| audible | capable of being heard |
| aggregate | to collect; to bring together |
| austere | strict; severely simple |
| assuage | to ease, relieve, or lessen |
| culpable | guilty; blameworthy |
| coalesce | to unite, come together |
| conventional | traditional, ordinary |
| cultivate | to grow; to improve |
| competent | capable; sufficiently skilled |
| compatible | capable of working in harmony |
| contemporary | modern |
| clemency | mercy; gentleness in punishing |
| conservative | traditional; opposed to change |
| conform | to fit in; to act in agreement with |
| commend | to praise |
| corrupt | to change from good to bad |
| contrite | regretful, feeling guilt |
| dormant | asleep, inactive |
| disperse | to spread widely |
| debilitate | to weaken |
| despair | hopelessness |
| diminish | to make or become smaller |
| dubious | doubtful; questionable |
| enhance | to improve |
| endorse | to support |
| ephemeral | short-lived |
| efface | to erase; to make less noticeable |
| gregarious | friendly, sociable |
| grant | to give |
| intractable | stubborn, difficult to manage |
| inevitable | unavoidable, certain to happen |
| inclination | tendency; preference |
| innate | inborn, present at birth |
| innocuous | harmless |
| innovative | original, new |
| indigenous | native, originally from |
| indulge | to give in to |
| inception | beginning |
| impartial | fair, not favoring either side |
| indefatigable | untiring, tireless |
| incorporate | to include |
| illicit | illegal |
| jocular | joking, jolly |
| loathe | to hate, scorn |
| munificent | very generous |
| monarch | a ruler |
| misanthrope | a person who hates mankind |
| neologism | a newly invented word |
| novel | new or different |
| objective | not affected by personal feeling |
| optimistic | hopeful, tending to expect the best |
| orthodox | traditional |
| peripheral | on or having to do with the outer edge |
| pessimism | a tendency to expect the worst |
| penury | extreme poverty |
| relevant | related to the matter at hand |
| reticent | quiet, untalkative |
| radical | extreme |
| rue | to regret |
| soluble | capable of being dissolved |
| spontaneous | impulsive, not planned |
| stolid | unemotional; not easily excited |
| skeptical | doubtful |
| score | the written form of a piece of music |
| serene | calm, peaceful |
| superficial | shallow; on the surface |
| taciturn | quite, untalkative |
| tranquil | calm, peaceful |
| tangible | real, capable of being touched |
| truncate | to shorten |
| undermine | to weaken |
| undulating | moving in a wavelike manner |
| verbose | wordy |
| vivid | lifelike; intense |
| pulverize | to demolish |
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