| Term | Definition |
|---|
| abate | to moderate reduce |
| abdicate | to renounce responsibility, to give up a position of power |
| aberrant | deviating from the normal |
| abeyance | suspended activity |
| abhor | to dislike greatly, to feel aversion toward |
| abjure | to renounce or reject by oath |
| abrogate | to abolish, terminate |
| abstruse | diificult to understand, unfathomable |
| accolade | to praise, ofter public. An award of merit |
| acrimonious | bitterly hostile in manner |
| acumen | perception, insight |
| ad hoc | created to take care of a particular situation |
| adamant | firm in determination or opposition |
| acidulous | somewhat harsh in manner or qualitya |
| admonish | to warn against |
| adulate | to flatter or praise excessively |
| affable | warmly outgoing, pleasantly sociable |
| amenable | willing to obey or to be lead |
| antipodal | at opposite extremes |
| apocryphal | not authentic; of questionable authenticity |
| apotheosis | the act of becoming a god or achieving divine status |
| apprise | to inform |
| approbation | supportive approval |
| ascetic | practicing a morally strict lifestyle, often spiritually motivated |
| askew | crooked, slanted, out of line |
| assiduous | hard working, diligent |
| attenuate | to make increasingly thin, to make weaker or less forceful |
| attrition | a gradual reduction in numbers |
| auspicious | hopeful, favorable |
| banal | common place, lacking originality |
| beguile | to pleasantly mislead |
| belie | to prove false; to give a false impression |
| bane | a source of misfortune, danger or destruction |
| bellicose | war like; favoring war |
| bent | determined; natural talent or inclination |
| bereft | deprived of; experiencing a loss of |
| beset | to harrass, to bother, also to attack from all side |
| bilk | to cheat- specially out of something due |
| blandishment | a gentle flattering to persuade |
| blithe | carefree; lighthearted also careless |
| bolster | to reinforce |
| burnish | to make shiny by rubbing; to polish |
| buttress | to strenghten by adding support |
| cabal | a group of individuals secretly united |
| cajole | to persuade or coax gently |
| callow | immature, unsophisticated |
| canny | wise, also shrewd, cunning |
| canvass | to seek information or votes by going to person to person |
| captious | finding fault in a quarrelsome way |
| catharsis | an emotional unburdening or clenasing often thru art |
| caustic | eating away throug chemical reaction; sharp in tone |
| cavil | to make trivial, insignificant objections |
| chagrin | distressing dissapointment caused by humiliation |
| chary | careful, cautious and slow to act |
| chauvinism | excessive patriotism |
| chicanery | trickery |
| chimerical | wildly improbable; fantastic |
| cipher | a nobody; an unimportant person |
| circumlocution | a very wordy expression to avoid a subject |
| circumspect | careful to review all circumstances |
| circumvent | to get arount by outwitting |
| clamber | to climb akwardly |
| coalesce | to fuse or unite into a whole |
| coeval | existing at the same time; contemporary |
| cogent | well thought out; rationally convincing |
| cognate | a word relation to another word from another language |
| cognitive | thinking, knowing and perceiving |
| colloquy | informal but high lever discussion |
| collusion | secret agreement or joint action for a dishonest purpose |
| commensurate | proportionate, comparable degree |
| complacent | unconcerned; smug; self satisfied |
| concatenate | to link together in a chain like series |
| concomitant | adjetive that means to accompany or contribute, especially in a supplemental way. |
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