| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Abdicate | give up, resign, as to ___ a throne |
| Aberration | a departure from what is normal or typical |
| Abstruse | difficult to understand; very abstract |
| Acrid | unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor |
| Acquiesce | to accept without protest; to agree or submit |
| Acrimonious | full of spite bitter nasty |
| Acumen | mental sharpness |
| Aesthetics | the study of beauty |
| Affable | friendly pleasant |
| Ameliorate | to make better to improve |
| Amenable | willing to agree responsive cooperative |
| Amiable | friendly affable |
| Amicable | pleasant friendly |
| Ample | of adequate or more than adequate size extent or amount |
| Antipathy | a strong dislike |
| Apex | the tip point or vertex the summit |
| Approbation | approval |
| Appropriated | taking or making use of without authority or right |
| Arable | capable of producing crops, suitable for farming |
| Assimilate | to take in and incorporate as one's own absorb |
| Astute | of keen penetration or discernment sagacious clever |
| Audacious | very bold |
| Austere | sever in manner or appearance stern |
| Avarice | greed |
| Avid | keenly desirous eager enthusiastic ardent |
| banal | devoid of freshness or originality |
| Barren | not producing or incapable of producing offspring sterile unproductive unfruitful |
| Blanch | to drain of color to become pale |
| Bombastic | pretentious inflated speech or writing, lacking in humility |
| Brandish | to wave or shake about in a menacing manner |
| Brusque | rough or abrupt in manner or speech curt |
| Burgeon | to grow rapidly |
| Callow | immature or inexperienced |
| Cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| Capacious | spacious roomy |
| Caprice | a sudden unpredictable change as of ones mind, the weather |
| Chimera | a mythological monster commonly represented with a lions head goat body serpent tail |
| Circuitous | following a circular or winding path, indirect |
| Compendium | a concise list or summary |
| Concur | to accord in opinion agree |
| Congregate | to come together to assemble |
| Consensus | a general agreement common consent |
| Copious | large in quantity or number |
| Corpulent | large or bulky of body portly stout fat |
| Corroborate | to support with evidence confirm a claim |
| Craven | cowardly contemptibly timid pusillanimous |
| Curt | rough and abrupt in manner or speech |
| Decorum | conformity to accepted norms of behavior |
| Defile | to make unclear or impure desecrate |
| Deify | to make a god of exalt to the rank of a deity personify as a deity |
| Demystify | to make clear and thus less baffling |
| Desolate | lonely uninhabited |
| Diffident | lack of faith in oneself, lack of confidence |
| Dilatory | tending to delay or procrastinate |
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