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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abate | grow weaker; lessen; die down |
| aberration | give; agree to request or demand of others |
| accolade | praise; approval; salutation |
| acquiesce | give in; agree to request or demand of otehrs |
| acrimonious | means to do evil or harm; bitter in language or tone of voice |
| alarcrity | speed; eagerness; willingness |
| altercation | loud argument; fight |
| antipathy | strong feelings against; hatred; strong dislike |
| aphorism | short statement of truth or principle that people live by |
| apocryphal | of unknown origin; something that happens out of nowhere |
| assuage | make less painful; soothe |
| asthete | one who loves beauty |
| atheist | one who does not believe in god or a higher authority |
| attenuate | to weaken; make thinner; reduce; make smaller |
| auspicious | favorable; good circumstances |
| austerity | harshly plain; harsh economy(little money); no comfort; strictness |
| avarice | greed; seeks more money, more possessions |
| avow | to state as the truth; profess; to swear to |
| bellicose | warlike; pugnacious; fighting |
| capacious | big space with high ceiling; capable of holding a large amount |
| capricious | fanciful; empty-headed; fickle; whimsical |
| contempt | hatred; scorn; antipathy(basically hatred) |
| contentious | wanting or liking to fight; liking to quarrel or argue |
| corroborate | support, confirm or prove the truth, usually with new information |
| disparage | belittle; criticize; "put down"; degrade |
| dubious | doubtful |
| effulgence | shining; brilliance; radiance such as the night sky, effulgent with stars |
| elucidate | make clear; shed light on for better understanding; explain |
| elude | escape from |
| emulate | imitate; try to equal someone else by imitating his or her actions |
| encroach | invade; intrude; push in where not wanted; go beyond reasonable |
| engender | to bring into being; to plant an idea and cause it to grow |
| epicurean | having good taste in fine foods and fine wines |
| exacerbate | to make worse |
| fathom | to measure; to understand |
| fatuous | empty of meaning; insane; senseless |
| fervent | passionate; expressing deep feeling about something |
| fractious | breaking rules; making trouble; generally unruly |
| imperious | arrogant; domineering; overbearing; demanding |
| incarnate | in the flesh; in human form (carn=meat; flesh) |
| incongruous | not fitting together; illogical; senseless |
| incorrigible | unable to be corrected; reprehensible; obnoxious |
| indigenous | native to an area; born there or discovered there, as a plant might be |
| inebriation | drunk from alcohol; intoxicated (drunk) by the smell of flowers |
| inexorable | cannot be talked out of something; implacable; stubborn; unyielding |
| infallible | cannot fail; incapable of error or mistakes |
| ingenuous | honest; straightforward; unsophisticated |
| innate | born; inherited or possessed at birth; genetic |
| inordinate | not ordinary; unreasonable; going beyond the limit |
| insidious | sneaking to do harm or evil; underhanded |
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