Flashcards: Word Smart Group (1-20)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abash | To make ashamed; to embarrass |
| abate | To subside; to reduce |
| abdicate | To step down from a position of power or responsibility |
| aberration | Something not typical; a deviation from the standard |
| abhor | To hate very very much; to detest |
| abject | Hopeless; extremely sad and servile; defeated; utterly bummed out |
| abnegate | To deny oneself things; to reject; to renounce |
| abortive | Unsuccessful |
| abridge | To shorten; to condense |
| absolute | Total; unlimited; perfect |
| absolve | To forgive or free from blame; to free from sin; to free from an obligation |
| abstinent | Abstaining; voluntarily not doing something especially something pleasant that is bad for you or has a bad reputation |
| abstract | Theoretical; impersonal |
| abstruse | Hard to understand |
| abysmal | Extremely hopeless or wretched; bottomless |
| accolade | An award; an honor |
| accost | To approach and speak to someone |
| acerbic | Bitter; sour; severe |
| acquiesce | To comply passively; to accept; to assent; to agree |
| acrid | Harsh; like acid |
| acrimonious | Full of spite; bitter; nasty |
| acumen | Keenness of judgment; mental sharpness |
| acute | Sharp; shrewd |
| adamant | Stubborn; unyielding; completely inflexible |
| address | To speak to; to direct ones attention to |
| adherent | Follower; supporter; believer |
| admonish | To scold gently; to warn |
| adroit | Skillful; dexterous; clever; shrewd; socially at ease |
| adulation | Wild or excessive admiration; flattery |
| adulterate | To contaminate; to make impure |
| adverse | Unfavorable; antagonistic |
| aesthetic | Having to do with artistic beauty; artistic |
| affable | Easy to talk to; friendly |
| affectation | Unnatural or artificial behavior usually intended to impress |
| affinity | Sympathy; attraction; kinship; similarity |
| affluent | Rich; prosperous |
| agenda | Program; the things to be done |
| agrarian | Relating to land; relating to the management or farming of land |
| aggregate | Sum total; a collection of separate things mixed together |
| agnostic | One who believes that the existence of a god can be neither proven nor disproven |
| alacrity | Cheerful eagerness or readiness to respond |
| allege | To assert without proof |
| alleviate | To relieve usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable; to lessen |
| allocate | To distribute; to assign; to allot |
| alloy | A combination of two or more things usually metals |
| allusion | An indirect reference often to a literary work; a hint hint |
| aloof | Uninvolved; standing off; keeping ones distance |
| altruism | Selflessness; generosity; devotion to the interests of others |
| ambiance | Atmosphere; mood; feeling mood |
| ambiguous | Unclear in meaning; confusing; capable of being interpreted in different ways |
| ambivalent | Undecided; neutral; wishy-washy |
| ameliorate | To make better or more tolerable ; |
| amenable | Obedient; willing to give in to the wishes of another; agreeable |
| amenity | Pleasantness; attractive or comfortable feature |
| amiable | Friendly; agreeable |
| amnesty | An official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy |
| amoral | Lacking a sense of right and wrong; neither good nor bad neither moral nor immoral; without moral feelings |
| amorous | Feeling loving especially in a sexual sense; in love relating to love |
| amorphous | Shapeless; without a regular or stable shape |
| anachronism | Something out of place in time or history; an incongruity |
| analogy | A comparison of one thing to another; similarity similarity |
| anarchy | Absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder |
| anecdote | A short account of a humorous or revealing incident |
| anguish | Agonizing physical or mental pain |
| animosity | Resentment; hostility; ill will |
| anomaly | An aberration; an irregularity; a deviation ; |
| antecedent | Someone or something that went before; something that provides a model for something that came after it |
| antipathy | Firm dislike; a dislike ↔sympathy ; |
| antithesis | The direct opposite |
| apartheid | The abhorrent policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Repubic of South Africa |
| apathy | Lack of interest; lack of feeling |
| aphorism | A brief often witty saying; a proverb |
| apocalypse | A prophetic revelation especially one concerning the end of the world |
| apocryphal | Of dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurious |
| apotheosis | Elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something |
| appease | To soothe; to pacify by giving in to |
| appreciate | To increase in value |
| apprehensive | Worried; anxious |
| approbation | Approval; praise |
| appropriate | To take without permission; to set aside for a particular use |
| aptitude | Capacity for learning; natural ability |
| arbiter | One who decides; a judge |
| arbitrary | Random; capricious random |
| arcane | Mysterious; known only to a select few mysterious |
| archaic | Extremely old; ancient; outdated |
| archetype | An original model or pattern |
| ardent | Passionate half-hearted |
| arduous | Hard; difficult |
| aristocratic | Of noble birth; snobbish |
| artful | Wily; sly ; =crafty |
| artifice | A clever trick; cunning ; |
| ascendancy | Supremacy; domination |
| ascetic | Hermit like; practicing self-denial |
| assiduous | Hardworking; busy; quite diligent |
| assimilate | To take in; to absorb; to learn thoroughly |
| assuage | To soothe; to pacify; to ease the pain of; to relieve |
| astute | Shrewd; keen in judgment ; |
| attrition | Gradual wearing away weakening or loss; a natural or expected decrease in numbers of size |
| audacity | Boldness; reckless daring; impertinence ; |
| augment | To make bigger; to add to; to increase ; |
| auspicious | Favorable; promising; pointing to a good result |
| austere | Unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess |
| autocratic | Ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy |
| autonomous | Acting independently |
| avarice | Greed; excessive love of riches |
| avow | To claim; to declare boldly; to admit |
| avuncular | Like an uncle especially a nice uncle ; |
| awry | Off course; twisted to one side ; |
| axiom | Self-evident rule or truth; a widely accepted saying |
| banal | Unoriginal; ordinary |
| bane | Poison; torment; cause of harm |
| bastion | Stronghold; fortress; fortified place |
| beget | To give birth to; to create; to lead to; to cause |
| belabor | To go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent |
| beleaguer | To surround; to besiege; to harass |
| belie | To give a false impression of; to contradict |
| belittle | To make to seem little; to put someone down |
| belligerent | Combative; quarrelsome; waging war |
| bemused | Confused; bewildered |
| benefactor | One who provides help especially in the form of a gift or donation |
| benevolent | Generous; kind; doing good deeds |
| benign | Gentle; not harmful; kind; mild |
| bequest | Something left to someone in a will |
| bereaved | Deprived or left desolate especially through death |
| beset | Harass; to surround |
| blasphemy | Irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity |
| blatant | Unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring |
| blight | Disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys |
| blithe | Carefree; cheerful |
| bourgeois | Middle class usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional |
| bovine | Cow related; cow like cf canine equine feline pis cine porcine ursine |
| brevity | Briefness |
| broach | To open up a subject for discussion often a delicate subject |
| bucolic | Charmingly rural; rustic; country like |
| bureaucracy | A system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules; any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency lots of rules and red tape |
| burgeon | To expand; to flourish |
| burlesque | A ludicrous mocking or exaggerated imitation |
| cacophony | Harsh-sounding mixture of words voices or sounds |
| cadence | Rhythm the rise and fall of sounds |
| cajole | To persuade someone to do something he or she doesn't want to do |
| callow | Immature |
| candor | Truthfulness; sincere honesty |
| Capitalism | Free enterprise |
| capitulate | To surrender; to give up or give in |
| capricious | Unpredictable; like to change at any moment |
| caricature | A portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated often to prove some point about its subject |
| castigate | To criticize severely; to chastise |
| catalyst | In chemistry~; anyone or anything that makes something happen without being directly involved in it |
| categorical | Unconditional; absolute |
| catharsis | Purification that brings emotional relief or renewal |
| catholic | Universal; embracing everything |
| caustic | Like acid; corrosive |
| celibacy | Abstinence from sex |
| censure | To condemn severely for doing something bad |
| cerebral | Brainy; intellectually refined |
| chagrin | Humiliation; embarrassed disappointment |
| charisma | A magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty |
| charlatan | Fraud; quack; con man |
| chasm | A deep gaping hole; a gorge |
| chastise | To inflict punishment on; to discipline |
| chicanery | Trickery; deceitfulness; artifice; especially legal or political |
| chimera | An illusion; a foolish fancy |
| choleric | Hot-tempered; quick to anger |
| chronic | Constant; lasting a long time; inveterate |
| chronicle | A record of events in order of time; a history |
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