Vocab Abnormal - Essence (and more)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Abnormal | adj. irregular; departing from typical |
| Abroad | adv. At large, going around, free in the community |
| Abstractly | adv. Theoretically; ideally; impractically, not concretely |
| Abstruse | adj. difficult to understand or comprehend |
| Abundant | adj. plentiful; in excess; more than adequate |
| Accomplice | n. associate, usually acting to aid a lawbreaker |
| Accordant | adj. correspondent; agreeing; harmonious |
| Acknowledge | v. recognize the rights, authority, or status of; accept |
| Acquiescent | adj. quiet; submissive; passive; yielding |
| Actuality | n. reality; fact |
| Actuate | v. to put into action or motion, as a mechanism |
| Admonish | v. to caution or warn; to reproach gently |
| Adolescent | n. or adj. between puberty and maturity; youthful |
| Adversity | n. condition of hardship or affliction |
| Affluent | adj. wealthy; rich |
| Agrarian | adj. pertaining to land or its use; related to agriculture |
| Alienation | n. state of being turned away; estrangement; also, act of turning away |
| Ambiguous | adj. doubtful or uncertain because of indistinctness; equivocal |
| Antagonistic | adj. aggressive; contentious; quarrelsome |
| Apathetic | adj. lacking interest or feeling; indifferent |
| Aperture | n. opening or hole; orifice |
| Appellation | n. name, title, or nickname |
| Apprehension | n. anxious expectation ; foreboding; dread |
| Appropriation | n. money set aside by formal action for special use |
| Aristocracy | n. hereditary nobility or privileged class |
| Ascetic | adj. given to strict self-denial; spartan; deprived |
| Aspects | n. appearance or phases; qualities or facets |
| Assure | v. to guarantee; to cause to feel certain |
| Atrocity | n. wicked, cruel, or tasteless act |
| Attend | v. to accompany; to serve |
| Audacity | n. boldness; recklessness; rashness |
| Augment | v. to increase, as in size, number, or amount; to intensify |
| Aura | n. distinctive air or quality |
| Avarice | n. greed; miserliness |
| Avow | v. to acknowledge frankly |
| Bard | n. poet or minstrel |
| Benign | adj. kind and gentle manner |
| Blunder | n. stupid mistake |
| Blunt | adj. insensitive; dull; tactless |
| Bracken | n. large, coarse ferns |
| Candied | adj. coated or baked with sugar |
| Capricious | adj. changeable; inconstant; flighty |
| Caricature | n. picture represented so as to make a subject ridiculous |
| Caucus | n. meeting of political party members to select candidates and shape policy |
| Chivalrous | adj. valiant; having knightly ideals or qualities |
| Circumlocution | n. wordiness; the act of talking around a point |
| Circumvent | v. to surround; to entrap; to outmaneuver; to get around |
| Citadel | n. fortress that commands a city |
| Citron | n. citrus fruit similar to a lemon |
| Coarse | adj. rough in texture |
| Coherent | adj. consistent; logical; easy to understand, understandable, being clear |
| Collectivist | adj. centralized; corporate; nationalized; socialized, owning things by government |
| Commitment | n. engagement or pledge to do something |
| Competency | n. fitness; qualification for performing a task |
| Complacent | adj. satisfied; personally content; sometimes suggesting smugness or laziness |
| Complex | adj. complicated; involved; intricate |
| Comprehend | v. to understand |
| Conceivable | adj. capable of being understood or imagined, possible of happening |
| Condone | v. to pardon, overlook, or disregard an offense |
| Confirm | v. to verify; to prove |
| Congenial | adj. alike in interests, tastes, etc.; compatible; agreeable |
| Constituent | n. necessary part of element |
| Contemplate | v. to think about; to ponder |
| Contemporary | n. person or think living or occurring at the same time as another |
| Contend | v. to argue or to debate; to assert |
| Contrive | v. to plan; to devise a strategy; to scheme; to plot |
| Controversy | n. dispute over an issue; debate; quarrel |
| Conventional | adj. established by general agreement or custom |
| Corpulent | adj. very fat; obese |
| Cower | v. to crouch, cringe, or shrink away, as from fear or cold |
| Cylinder | n. circular chamber |
| Cynicism | n. fault-finding; distrust of human nature |
| Debilitate | v. to weaken; to enfeeble; to cause to lose strength |
| Debonair | adj. pleasantly gracious; courteous |
| Decisive | adj. definite; sure; conclusive; determined |
| Default | n. failure or neglect to fulfill an obligation or requirement |
| Defiant | adj. full of angry resistance; rebellious |
| Defray | v. to pay (costs, expenses, etc.) |
| Deft | adj. neat and skillful |
| Degradation | n. demotion; lowering of rank, status, or character; reduction of worth or value |
| Demoralize | v. to discourage; to undermine morale |
| Denial | n. refusal to accept or comply; disavowal |
| Deplore | v. to grieve; to show regret or sadness |
| Depraved | adj. corrupt or evil |
| Depredation | n. spoiling; ravaging; plundering |
| Desolate | adj. deserted; joyless |
| Destiny | n. inevitable and certain course of events |
| Deter | v. to prevent or discourage action because of fear; to turn aside |
| Deviation | n. the act of turning aside; variance from the norm |
| Diaphanous | adj. translucent; transparent |
| Diligent | adj. industrious; hardworking; intent on a goal |
| Disconsolate | adj. deeply dejected; sad; discouraged |
| Disorientation | n. confusion; causing one to lose a sense of direction, place, or time |
| Dispatch | v. to kill; to end; to slay |
| Disperse | v. to cause to scatter in various directions |
| Disreputable | adj. in low regard; held in low opinion |
| Dissolution | n. disintegration; termination; act of dissolving or breaking apart |
| Distributors | n. those who supply commodities; wholesalers |
| Diversity | n. composed of distinct elements; variety |
| Divert | v. to turn aside; to distract; to deflect |
| Dividend | n. number or quantity to be divided and shared |
| Domestic | adj. local; of the home; not foreign |
| Dominated | v. overlooked from a commanding position; controlled |
| Drudgery | n. hard and disagreeable work |
| Ebb | v. to recede; to decline |
| Eccentric | adj. not holding to a conventional pattern; odd; strange |
| Eddying | v. circling, as a current of water or air |
| Edify | v. to instruct or teach; to enlighten |
| Effigy | n. image or representation of a person, sometimes crudely portrayed |
| Elementary | adj. fundamental; basic |
| Embark | v. to go on board a ship for a voyage; to set sail |
| Embody | v. to represent ideas or values in a visible form |
| Eminent | adj. exceptional; notable |
| Encumber | v. to burden or weigh down; to impede; to handicap |
| Enlighten | v. to give revealing or broadening knowledge to |
| Enterprise | n. any project, undertaking, or task, especially when difficult or important |
| Equanimity | n. evenness of temper and mind |
| Essence | n. basic or fundamental nature |
| Bibliomania | n. preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books |
| Plutocracy | n. the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy |
| Chronometer | n. any timepiece, especially a wristwatch, designed for the highest accuracy |
| Etymology | n. a chronological account of the birth and development of a particular word or element of a word |
| Cosmopolitan | adj. free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world. |
| Cryptogram | n. a message or writing in code or cipher; cryptograph. |
| Polysyllabic | adj. consisting of several, especially four or more, syllables, as a word |
| Defamation | n. false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another |
| Demonstrative | adj. characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection |
| Dermatologist | n. a specialist in dermatology, especially a doctor who specializes in the treatment of diseases of the skin. |
| Disenfranchise | v. Deprive (someone) of the right to vote. |
| Effeminate | adj. having traits, tastes, habits, etc., traditionally considered feminine, as softness or delicacy |
| Egotism | n. excessive and objectionable reference to oneself in conversation or writing; conceit; boastfulness; selfishness |
| Endemic | adj. natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; |
| Exacerbate | v. to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate. |
| Felonious | adj. pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a felony: wicked; base; villainous. |
| Galvanize | v. to startle into sudden activity; stimulate. |
| Enunciate | v. to utter or pronounce (words, sentences, etc.), especially in an articulate or a particular manner |
| Hemorrhage | n. a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding. |
| Heterogeneous | adj. composed of parts of different kinds; having widely dissimilar elements or constituents |
| Homonym | n. a word the same as another in sound and spelling but different in meaning |
| Ignominious | adj. Deserving or causing public disgrace or shamediscreditable; humiliating |
| Immaterial | adj. not material; incorporeal; spiritual. |
| Indefatigable | adj. incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring. |
| Jingoism | n. flag waving: an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions. |
| Judicious | adj. using or showing judgment as to action or practical expediency; discreet, prudent, or politic |
| Lackadaisical | adj. without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lazy |
| Magnanimous | adj. generous in forgiving an insult or injury; noble |
| Mercantilism | n. Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism. |
| Minutia | n. precise details; small or trifling matters |
| Lycanthropy | n. a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal. |
| Narcissistic | adj. having an undue fascination with oneself; vain; admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes |
| Necropolis | n. a cemetery, especially one of large size and usually of an ancient city. |
| Scatological | n. the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity; study of poop |
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