Lesson 2 (21-40)
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20 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alacrity | n. cheerful willingness; eagerness; speed; quickness |
| *alleviate | L. ad.-to + levis-light; relieve, lessen; to make (as suffering) more bearable; to partially remove or correct |
| *altercation | n. L. alter-other; a noisy heated angry dispute; noisy controversy |
| *altruistic | adj. L. alter-other; unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others. n. altruism. n. altrusit |
| *ambiguous | adj. L. ambi-around, agere-to drive; doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness; capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways; n. ambiguity; syn: equivocal |
| ameliorate | to make better; become better; improve; n. amelioration |
| amenable | adj. readily brought to yield, submit, or cooperate; willing; acquiescent |
| *amity | n. amicus-friend, amare-to love; friendship; friendly relations between nations |
| analogy | n. resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike; similarity; comparisons based on such resemblance; adj. analogous |
| anathema | n. one that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority; someone or something intensely disliked or loathed -- usually used as a predicate nominative; a ban or curse solemnly pronounced by ecclesiastical authority and accompanied by excommunication; the denunciation of something as accursed; a vigorous denunciation; curse |
| *anomalous | Gr. an-not + homos-same adj. inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected; irregular, unusual; of uncertain nature or classification; n. anomaly--similar to aberrant |
| *antipathy | Gr. anti-against + pathos - feeling; n. a strong dislike; a feeling of aversion, repugnance, or opposition |
| antithesis | n. the direct or exact opposite |
| *apathy | Gr. a-not + pathos- feeling; lack of feeling or emotion; impassiveness; lack of interest or concern; indifference |
| apocryphal | adj. fake, fictitious, not genuine; of doubtful origin |
| apt | adj. unusually fitted or qualified; ready; having a tendency; likely; ordinarily disposed: inclined; suited to a purpose; being to the point; keenly intelligent and responsive |
| arbiter | n. a person with power to decide a dispute: judge; a person or agency whose judgment or opinion is considered authoritative |
| arbitrary | adj. depending on individual discretion and not fixed by law; not restrained or limited in the exercise of power: ruling by absolute authority: marked by or resulting from the unrestrained and often tyrannical exercise of power; based on or determined by individual preference or convenience rather than by necessity or the intrinsic nature of something |
| arboreal | adj. pertaining to trees; like a tree; living in or frequenting trees (arboreal monkeys) |
| arrogance | n. an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
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