Vocabulary unit 1 Test
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 avert | To turn away or aside in avoidance |
| abnormal | Deviating from the normal or average |
| abstain | to hold oneself back voluntarily |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion |
| atheist | one who denies the existence of god |
| anarchy | having no ruler |
| anesthesia | loss of sensation with or without loss of consciousness |
| anonymous | not named or identified |
| acronym | a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words |
| acrobat | a skilled performer of gymnastic feats, as walking on a tightrope or swinging on a trapeze or a person who readily changes viewpoints or opinions |
| Acrophobia | a pathological fear of heights |
| Aigosthena | the citadel or high fortified area of an ancient Greek city |
| alter | an elevated place or structure, as a mound or platform, at which religious rites are performed or on which sacrifices are offered to gods, ancestors, etc |
| somethingmeter | a sensitive aneroid barometer that is graduated and calibrated, used chiefly in aircraft for finding distance above sea level, terrain, or some other reference point by a comparison of air pressures or any device used for the same purpose that operates by some other means, as by radio waves. |
| altitude | extent or distance upward; height |
| Ambidextrous | able to use both hands equally well |
| ambivalence | uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things |
| Ambivert | one whose personality type is intermediate between extrovert and introvert |
| antonym | a word opposite in meaning to another |
| aversion | an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling |
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