Quizlet ENGLISH VOCABULARY - MIDTERM FINAL REVIEW

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  1. Abash: To cause someone to be embarassed or to feel self-conscious
  2. Abate: To reduce in amount
  3. Abeyance: the condition of being temporarily set aside; suspension
  4. Absolution: A freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences, obligations, or penalties
  5. Accessible: easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use
  6. Acute: Sharp or severe in effect; intense
  7. Adage: A traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation
  8. Admonish: To caution, advise, or counsel against something
  9. Amiable: Friendly and agreeable in disposition; good-natured and likeable
  10. Appalling: Causing dismay or horror
  11. Aspirations: A strong desire, longing, or ambition.
  12. Assuage: to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease
  13. Austerity: plainness
  14. Avow: To acknowledge openly, boldy, unashamedly; confess
  15. Barbarism: A barbarous act; an uncivilized state or position
  16. Beguiled: to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
  17. benevolence: A desire to do good things for others
  18. bland: pleasantly gentle or agreeable
  19. blandishments: something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax, entice, etc.
  20. blight: diseased
  21. callous: hardened
  22. candor: frankness or sincerity of expression; openness
  23. cantankerous: ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable
  24. chagrin: strong feelings of embarassment
  25. charlatan: a person who pretends to have more knowledge than he or she posesses
  26. civility: courtesy; politeness
  27. clientele: a body of customers or patrons
  28. cogently: Convincing or believable because of strong evidence.
  29. coherent: sticking together; cohering
  30. complacency: Being pleased with oneself, sometimes to the point of fault; smug, untroubled.
  31. corroborative: serving to strengthen or support with other evidence; make more certain
  32. deduce: to derive a conclusion from something known or assumed
  33. deficient: lacking an essential quality or element; insufficient
  34. defraud: to deprive of a right, money, or property by cheating someone
  35. destitute: utterly lacking; devoid
  36. differentiate: to show the difference in or between
  37. diversity: the state or fact of being different
  38. edifice: Any large, complex system or organization.
  39. effiacy: effectiveness
  40. emaciated: to make or become extremely thin, especially as a result of starvation
  41. emulate: to strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation
  42. ensuing: following immediately and as a result of what went before
  43. entreat: to ask a person earnestly; beg
  44. esthetics: the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and expression of beauty, as in the fine arts.
  45. explicitly: fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated
  46. facility: a building for a specific purpose
  47. falter: to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.
  48. fathomable: capable of being penetrated or comprehended.
  49. fawning: to seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious behavior
  50. feasible: capable of being accomplished or brought about; possible
  51. feign: to give a false appearance of
  52. fervent: having or showing great emotion or zeal
  53. ficticious: of, relating to, or characterized by fiction; imaginary
  54. garrulous: wordy and rambling; tiresomely talkative
  55. gaunt: bleak, desolate, or grim
  56. gregarious: fond of the company of others; sociable
  57. hackneyed: over-familiar through overuse
  58. homogeneous: of the same kind or nature
  59. hone: to perfect or make more intense or effective
  60. honorific: a title, phrase, or grammatical form conveying respect, used expecially when addressing a social superior.
  61. illustrious: highly distinguished; renowned; famous
  62. imbibe: to absorb liquid or moisture, usually alcohol
  63. impeach: to make an accusation against
  64. inanity: lack of sense
  65. incessant: going on without stopping; nonstop
  66. incisive: penetrating, clear, and sharp, as in operation or expression
  67. indictment: formal accusation initiating a criminal case, presented by a grand jury and usually required for felonies and other serious crimes
  68. indigenous: originating and living or occurring naturally in an area or environment
  69. inevitable: unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary
  70. insidious: working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner
  71. integrity: the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished
  72. irrelevant: not relevant; not applicable or pertinent
  73. judiciously: doing something in a way that exhibits sound judgement
  74. lacerated: mangled; jagged; torn
  75. laconic: using few words
  76. lethal: capable of causing death
  77. lucid: easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible
  78. magnanimous: courageously noble in mind and heart; generous in forgiving
  79. manifest: clearly apparent to the sight or understanding; obvious
  80. manipulate: to influence or manage shrewdly or deviously
  81. mediocre: of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate
  82. menial: of, relating to, or appropriate for a servant
  83. minimal: smallest in amount or degree
  84. monotonous: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
  85. navigator: A person who navigates, sometimes by sea.
  86. nebulous: cloudy, misty, or hazy
  87. nemesis: a source of harm or ruin; something/someone who can defeat you
  88. noxious: harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being
  89. nucleus: a central part about which other part are grouped or gathered; core
  90. oblivion: the condition or quality of being completely forgotten
  91. officious: ready to serve; obliging
  92. omnipotent: one having unlimited power or authority; God
  93. ostensible: appearing as such but not necessarily so
  94. pallid: having an abnormally pale or wan complexion
  95. paucity: possessing a small quantity
  96. permeate: to pass into or through every part of
  97. pernicious: deadly; fatal
  98. pervade: to become spread throughout all parts of
  99. portends: to serve as an omen or a warning of
  100. prevalent: widely or commonly occurring, existing, accepted, or practiced
  101. profound: deep, in an emotional sense
  102. quibble: to find fault or criticize for petty reasons
  103. rancor: bitter, long lasting resentment; deep-seated ill will
  104. rapt: deeply engrossed or absorbed
  105. reluctant: unwilling; disinclines
  106. remunerative: yielding suitable recompense; profitable
  107. repercussions: an often indirect effect, influence, or result that is produced by an event or action
  108. ruse: a trick
  109. salient: strikingly conspicuous; prominent
  110. sector: a section or zone, as of a city
  111. sedentary: accustomed to sitting or to taking little exercise
  112. subsequent: following in order or succession; succeeding
  113. surfeit: an excessive amount
  114. tantalizing: to excite another by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach
  115. untenable: not fit to be occupied, as an apartment, house, etc.
  116. utilitarian: useful
  117. virile: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an adult male
  118. vociferous: crying out nosily; clamorous