English Vocab pg77 Groups 11-15
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alacrity | cheerful willingness; readiness; liveliness |
| aversion | strong dislike; repugnance; antipathy |
| involuntary | not done of one's own free will; automatic; unintentional; spontaneous (ant. voluntary) |
| loath | unwilling; averse; disinclined; reluctant |
| loathe | have an intense aversion to; detest |
| volition | will |
| acclivity | upward slope (ant. declivity) |
| acme | highest point; pinnacle; summit |
| apogee | 1. farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a heavenly body (ant. perigee) 2. highest point; culmination |
| climactic | arranged in order of increasing force and interest (ant. anticlimactic) |
| consummate | perfect; superb; carried to the highest degree |
| eminence | high rank |
| eminent | standing out; notable; famous |
| ethereal | of the heavens; celestial; airy; delicate; intangible |
| exalt | 1. lift up with joy, pride, etc.; elate (ant. humiliate) 2. raise in rank, dignity, etc.; extol; glorify |
| precipice | very steep or overhanging place; cliff |
| precipitous | 1. steep as a precipice 2. hasty; rash |
| preeminent | standing out above others; superior |
| sublimate | 1. redirect the energy of a person's bad impulses into socially and morally higher channels 2. purify; refine |
| sublime | elevated; noble; exalted; uplifting |
| vertex | farthest point opposite the base, as in a triangle or pyramid; apex |
| zenith | 1. highest point; culmination; peak (ant. nadir) 2. point in the heavens directly overhead |
| abject | deserving contempt; sunk to a low condition; wretched |
| abysmal | deep; profound; immeasurably great |
| abyss | bottomless depth; immeasurably great space |
| anticlimax | abrupt decline from the dignified or important to the trivial or ludicrous; comedown; bathos (ant. climax) |
| chasm | deep breach; wide gap or rift |
| declivity | downward slope (ant. acclivity) |
| dregs | most worthless part; sediment at the bottom of a liquid |
| earthly | down-to-earth; realistic; coarse; low |
| humble | 1. of low position or condition 2. not proud; unpretentious; modest; courteously respectful |
| humiliate | lower the pride, position, or dignity of; abase; degrade; mortify (ant. exalt) |
| humility | freedom from pride; humbleness; lowliness; modesty |
| menial | low; mean; subservient; servile |
| nadir | lowest point (ant. zenith) |
| plumb | get to the bottom of; ascertain the depth of; fathom |
| profound | very deep; deeply felt; intellectually deep |
| ravine | deep, narrow gorge worn by running water |
| consanguinity | blood relationship |
| filial | of or like a son or daughter |
| fraternal | of or like a brother |
| genealogy | a person's or family's decent; lineage; pedigree |
| gentility | 1. good manners 2. gentry; upper class |
| kith and kin | friends and relatives; kindred |
| maternal | of or like a mother |
| nepotism | favoritism to relatives by those in power |
| paternal | of or like a father |
| progenitor | forefather |
| progeny | offspring; children; descendants |
| sibling | one of two or more children of a family |
| aroma | pleasant odor; bouquet |
| aromatic | sweet-scented; fragrant |
| fragrant | having a pleasant odor; pleasantly odorous or odoriferous |
| fusty | 1. stale-smelling; musty; moldy 2. old-fashioned |
| incense | substance yielding a pleasant odor when burned |
| malodorous | ill-smelling; stinking; fetid; unpleasantly odorous |
| noisome | 1. offensive to smell; disgusting 2. harmful; noxious |
| olfactory | pertaining to the sense of smell |
| pungent | sharp in smell or taste; acrid; biting; stimulating |
| putrid | 1. stinking from decay 2. extremely bad; corrupt |
| rancid | unpleasant to smell or taste from being spoiled or stale |
| rank | 1. having a strong, bad odor or taste; offensively gross or coarse 2. extreme |
| reek | emit a strong, disagreeable smell; be permeated with |
| scent | (n) smell; perfume (v) get a suspicion of |
| unsavory | 1. unpleasant to taste or smell 2. morally offensive |
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