Set: ACVocab2
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All 41 Terms
| | Term | Definition |
|---|---|---|
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bumptious | Crudely or loudly assertive; pushy. |
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salubrious | Conducive or favorable to health or well-being. |
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pastoral | Of or relating to the country or country life; charmingly simple and serene. |
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stentorian | Extremely loud |
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duteous | Obedient or dutiful. |
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alacrity | cheerful promptness; eagerness. |
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aggregate | gather, accumulate |
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aesthetic | dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful. |
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adulterate | make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances |
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abate | subside or moderate |
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abberant | abnormal or deviant. |
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abeyance | suspended action |
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abscond | depart secretly and hide. |
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abstemious | sparing in eating and drinking; temperate. |
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admonish | warn; reprove |
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aesthetic | artistic |
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burnish | to polish rub to a shine |
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burgeon | grow forth send out buds |
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buoyant | able to float light-hearted |
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brook | to tolerate endure |
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balk | obstacle purposely to get on the way of |
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ominous | causing evil |
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barren | not good enough unable to have young ones without value |
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baneful | causing harm or ruin pernicious;destructive |
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bask | in enjoy warmth and light |
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beatify | to bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to |
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bedizen | to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner |
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belabor | beat hard |
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barrage | artificial obstacle built across a river |
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bellicose | belligerent pugnacious warlike |
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broach | bring up announce begin to talk about |
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belligerent | (person nation) waging war |
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benefactor | person who has given help |
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blithe | cheerful casual carefree |
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bogus | sham counterfeit not genuine |
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boisterious | loud noisy rough lacking restraint |
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brash | hasty rush cheeky saucy |
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brass | yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc) |
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breach | opening broken place breaking |
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brittle | easily broken |
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benevolence | wish or activity in doing good |
Set Information
| Terms | 41 |
| Creator | hbuckley |
| Created | March 12, 2007 |
| Groups | None |
| Tags | None |
| Access | Anyone |
| Edit | Creator Only |
Description
baleful
ominous
balk
baneful
barrage barren
bask
bedizen
belabor
bellicose
belligerent
benefactor person who has given help
benevolence
benign kind and gentle mild (climate)
bequest arrangement to give something at death
berate scold sharply
bereft rob or dispossess of something (material)
bewilder puzzle confuse
bigot stubborn narrow-minded person
bilge bulge the protuberance of a cask
blandishment flattery coaxing
blandness polite manner comforting uninteresting
blatant noisy and rough
blithe
bogus boisterous bolster give greatly needed support
boorish crude offensive rude
brash
brass brazen made of brass
breach brittle
broach
brook
buoyant
burgeon
burnish