Quizlet Word Smart Group (1-20)

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  1. abash: To make ashamed; to embarrass
  2. abate: To subside; to reduce
  3. abdicate: To step down from a position of power or responsibility
  4. aberration: Something not typical; a deviation from the standard
  5. abhor: To hate very very much; to detest
  6. abject: Hopeless; extremely sad and servile; defeated; utterly bummed out
  7. abnegate: To deny oneself things; to reject; to renounce
  8. abortive: Unsuccessful
  9. abridge: To shorten; to condense
  10. absolute: Total; unlimited; perfect
  11. absolve: To forgive or free from blame; to free from sin; to free from an obligation
  12. abstinent: Abstaining; voluntarily not doing something especially something pleasant that is bad for you or has a bad reputation
  13. abstract: Theoretical; impersonal
  14. abstruse: Hard to understand
  15. abysmal: Extremely hopeless or wretched; bottomless
  16. accolade: An award; an honor
  17. accost: To approach and speak to someone
  18. acerbic: Bitter; sour; severe
  19. acquiesce: To comply passively; to accept; to assent; to agree
  20. acrid: Harsh; like acid
  21. acrimonious: Full of spite; bitter; nasty
  22. acumen: Keenness of judgment; mental sharpness
  23. acute: Sharp; shrewd
  24. adamant: Stubborn; unyielding; completely inflexible
  25. address: To speak to; to direct ones attention to
  26. adherent: Follower; supporter; believer
  27. admonish: To scold gently; to warn
  28. adroit: Skillful; dexterous; clever; shrewd; socially at ease
  29. adulation: Wild or excessive admiration; flattery
  30. adulterate: To contaminate; to make impure
  31. adverse: Unfavorable; antagonistic
  32. aesthetic: Having to do with artistic beauty; artistic
  33. affable: Easy to talk to; friendly
  34. affectation: Unnatural or artificial behavior usually intended to impress
  35. affinity: Sympathy; attraction; kinship; similarity
  36. affluent: Rich; prosperous
  37. agenda: Program; the things to be done
  38. aggregate: Sum total; a collection of separate things mixed together
  39. agnostic: One who believes that the existence of a god can be neither proven nor disproven
  40. agrarian: Relating to land; relating to the management or farming of land
  41. alacrity: Cheerful eagerness or readiness to respond
  42. allege: To assert without proof
  43. alleviate: To relieve usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable; to lessen
  44. allocate: To distribute; to assign; to allot
  45. alloy: A combination of two or more things usually metals
  46. allusion: An indirect reference often to a literary work; a hint hint
  47. aloof: Uninvolved; standing off; keeping ones distance
  48. altruism: Selflessness; generosity; devotion to the interests of others
  49. ambiance: Atmosphere; mood; feeling mood
  50. ambiguous: Unclear in meaning; confusing; capable of being interpreted in different ways
  51. ambivalent: Undecided; neutral; wishy-washy
  52. ameliorate: To make better or more tolerable ;
  53. amenable: Obedient; willing to give in to the wishes of another; agreeable
  54. amenity: Pleasantness; attractive or comfortable feature
  55. amiable: Friendly; agreeable
  56. amnesty: An official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy
  57. amoral: Lacking a sense of right and wrong; neither good nor bad neither moral nor immoral; without moral feelings
  58. amorous: Feeling loving especially in a sexual sense; in love relating to love
  59. amorphous: Shapeless; without a regular or stable shape
  60. anachronism: Something out of place in time or history; an incongruity
  61. analogy: A comparison of one thing to another; similarity similarity
  62. anarchy: Absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder
  63. anecdote: A short account of a humorous or revealing incident
  64. anguish: Agonizing physical or mental pain
  65. animosity: Resentment; hostility; ill will
  66. anomaly: An aberration; an irregularity; a deviation ;
  67. antecedent: Someone or something that went before; something that provides a model for something that came after it
  68. antipathy: Firm dislike; a dislike ↔sympathy ;
  69. antithesis: The direct opposite
  70. apartheid: The abhorrent policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Repubic of South Africa
  71. apathy: Lack of interest; lack of feeling
  72. aphorism: A brief often witty saying; a proverb
  73. apocalypse: A prophetic revelation especially one concerning the end of the world
  74. apocryphal: Of dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurious
  75. apotheosis: Elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something
  76. appease: To soothe; to pacify by giving in to
  77. appreciate: To increase in value
  78. apprehensive: Worried; anxious
  79. approbation: Approval; praise
  80. appropriate: To take without permission; to set aside for a particular use
  81. aptitude: Capacity for learning; natural ability
  82. arbiter: One who decides; a judge
  83. arbitrary: Random; capricious random
  84. arcane: Mysterious; known only to a select few mysterious
  85. archaic: Extremely old; ancient; outdated
  86. archetype: An original model or pattern
  87. ardent: Passionate half-hearted
  88. arduous: Hard; difficult
  89. aristocratic: Of noble birth; snobbish
  90. artful: Wily; sly ; =crafty
  91. artifice: A clever trick; cunning ;
  92. ascendancy: Supremacy; domination
  93. ascetic: Hermit like; practicing self-denial
  94. assiduous: Hardworking; busy; quite diligent
  95. assimilate: To take in; to absorb; to learn thoroughly
  96. assuage: To soothe; to pacify; to ease the pain of; to relieve
  97. astute: Shrewd; keen in judgment ;
  98. attrition: Gradual wearing away weakening or loss; a natural or expected decrease in numbers of size
  99. audacity: Boldness; reckless daring; impertinence ;
  100. augment: To make bigger; to add to; to increase ;
  101. auspicious: Favorable; promising; pointing to a good result
  102. austere: Unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess
  103. autocratic: Ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy
  104. autonomous: Acting independently
  105. avarice: Greed; excessive love of riches
  106. avow: To claim; to declare boldly; to admit
  107. avuncular: Like an uncle especially a nice uncle ;
  108. awry: Off course; twisted to one side ;
  109. axiom: Self-evident rule or truth; a widely accepted saying
  110. banal: Unoriginal; ordinary
  111. bane: Poison; torment; cause of harm
  112. bastion: Stronghold; fortress; fortified place
  113. beget: To give birth to; to create; to lead to; to cause
  114. belabor: To go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent
  115. beleaguer: To surround; to besiege; to harass
  116. belie: To give a false impression of; to contradict
  117. belittle: To make to seem little; to put someone down
  118. belligerent: Combative; quarrelsome; waging war
  119. bemused: Confused; bewildered
  120. benefactor: One who provides help especially in the form of a gift or donation
  121. benevolent: Generous; kind; doing good deeds
  122. benign: Gentle; not harmful; kind; mild
  123. bequest: Something left to someone in a will
  124. bereaved: Deprived or left desolate especially through death
  125. beset: Harass; to surround
  126. blasphemy: Irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity
  127. blatant: Unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring
  128. blight: Disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys
  129. blithe: Carefree; cheerful
  130. bourgeois: Middle class usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional
  131. bovine: Cow related; cow like cf canine equine feline pis cine porcine ursine
  132. brevity: Briefness
  133. broach: To open up a subject for discussion often a delicate subject
  134. bucolic: Charmingly rural; rustic; country like
  135. bureaucracy: A system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules; any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency lots of rules and red tape
  136. burgeon: To expand; to flourish
  137. burlesque: A ludicrous mocking or exaggerated imitation
  138. cacophony: Harsh-sounding mixture of words voices or sounds
  139. cadence: Rhythm the rise and fall of sounds
  140. cajole: To persuade someone to do something he or she doesn't want to do
  141. callow: Immature
  142. candor: Truthfulness; sincere honesty
  143. Capitalism: Free enterprise
  144. capitulate: To surrender; to give up or give in
  145. capricious: Unpredictable; like to change at any moment
  146. caricature: A portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated often to prove some point about its subject
  147. castigate: To criticize severely; to chastise
  148. catalyst: In chemistry~; anyone or anything that makes something happen without being directly involved in it
  149. categorical: Unconditional; absolute
  150. catharsis: Purification that brings emotional relief or renewal
  151. catholic: Universal; embracing everything
  152. caustic: Like acid; corrosive
  153. celibacy: Abstinence from sex
  154. censure: To condemn severely for doing something bad
  155. cerebral: Brainy; intellectually refined
  156. chagrin: Humiliation; embarrassed disappointment
  157. charisma: A magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty
  158. charlatan: Fraud; quack; con man
  159. chasm: A deep gaping hole; a gorge
  160. chastise: To inflict punishment on; to discipline
  161. chicanery: Trickery; deceitfulness; artifice; especially legal or political
  162. chimera: An illusion; a foolish fancy
  163. choleric: Hot-tempered; quick to anger
  164. chronic: Constant; lasting a long time; inveterate
  165. chronicle: A record of events in order of time; a history