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abase - correct answer ✔ (v.) to humiliate, degrade (After being overthrown and
abased, the deposed leader offered to bow down to his conqueror.)
abate - correct answer ✔ (v.) to reduce, lessen (The rain poured down for a while,
then abated.)
abdicate - correct answer ✔ (v.) to give up a position, usually one of leadership
(When he realized that the revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated
his throne.)
abduct - correct answer ✔ (v.) to kidnap, take by force (The evildoers abducted
the fairy princess from her happy home.)
aberration - correct answer ✔ (n.) something that differs from the norm (In 1918,
the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, but the success turned out to be an
aberration, and the Red Sox have not won a World Series since.)
abet - correct answer ✔ (v.) to aid, help, encourage (The spy succeeded only
because he had a friend on the inside to abet him.)
abhor - correct answer ✔ (v.) to hate, detest (Because he always wound up
kicking himself in the head when he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor
the sport.)
abide - correct answer ✔ 1. (v.) to put up with (Though he did not agree with the
decision, Chuck decided to abide by it.) 2. (v.) to remain (Despite the beating
they've taken from the weather throughout the millennia, the mountains abide.)
abject - correct answer ✔ (adj.) wretched, pitiful (After losing all her money,
falling into a puddle, and breaking her ankle, Eloise was abject.)
abjure - correct answer ✔ (v.) to reject, renounce (To prove his honesty, the
President abjured the evil policies of his wicked predecessor.)
abnegation - correct answer ✔ (n.) denial of comfort to oneself (The holy man
slept on the floor, took only cold showers, and generally followed other practices
of abnegation.)
abort - correct answer ✔ (v.) to give up on a half-finished project or effort (After
they ran out of food, the men, attempting to jump rope around the world, had to
abort and go home.)
abridge - correct answer ✔ 1. (v.) to cut down, shorten (The publisher thought
the dictionary was too long and abridged it.) 2. (adj.) shortened (Moby-Dick is
such a long book that even the abridged version is longer than most normal
books.)
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abrogate - correct answer ✔ (v.) to abolish, usually by authority (The Bill of Rights
assures that the government cannot abrogate our right to a free press.)
abscond - correct answer ✔ (v.) to sneak away and hide (In the confusion, the
super-spy absconded into the night with the secret plans.)
absolution - correct answer ✔ (n.) freedom from blame, guilt, sin (Once all the
facts were known, the jury gave Angela absolution by giving a verdict of not
guilty.)
abstain - correct answer ✔ (v.) to freely choose not to commit an action
(Everyone demanded that Angus put on the kilt, but he did not want to do it and
abstained.)
abstruse - correct answer ✔ (adj.) hard to comprehend (Everyone else in the class
understood geometry easily, but John found the subject abstruse.)
accede - correct answer ✔ (v.) to agree (When the class asked the teacher
whether they could play baseball instead of learn grammar they expected him to
refuse, but instead he acceded to their request.)
accentuate - correct answer ✔ (v.) to stress, highlight (Psychologists agree that
those people who are happiest accentuate the positive in life.)
accessible - correct answer ✔ (adj.) obtainable, reachable (After studying with
SparkNotes and getting a great score on the SAT, Marlena happily realized that
her goal of getting into an Ivy-League college was accessible.)
acclaim - correct answer ✔ (n.) high praise (Greg's excellent poem won the
acclaim of his friends.) accolade (n.) high praise, special distinction (Everyone
offered accolades to Sam after he won the Noble Prize.)
accolade - correct answer ✔ (n.) high praise, special distinction (Everyone offered
accolades to Sam after he won the Noble Prize.)
accommodating - correct answer ✔ (adj.) helpful, obliging, polite (Though the
apartment was not big enough for three people, Arnold, Mark, and Zebulon were
all friends and were accommodating to each other.)
accord - correct answer ✔ (n.) an agreement (After much negotiating, England
and Iceland finally came to a mutually beneficial accord about fishing rights off
the cost of Greenland.)
accost - correct answer ✔ (v.) to confront verbally (Though Antoinette was
normally quite calm, when the waiter spilled soup on her for the fourth time in 15
minutes she stood up and accosted the man.)
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accretion - correct answer ✔ (n.) slow growth in size or amount (Stalactites are
formed by the accretion of minerals from the roofs of caves.)
acerbic - correct answer ✔ (adj.) biting, bitter in tone or taste (Jill became
extremely acerbic and began to cruelly make fun of all her friends.)
acquiesce - correct answer ✔ (v.) to agree without protesting (Though Mr.
Correlli wanted to stay outside and work in his garage, when his wife told him
that he had better come in to dinner, he acquiesced to her demands.)
acrimony - correct answer ✔ (n.) bitterness, discord (Though they vowed that no
girl would ever come between them, Biff and Trevor could not keep acrimony
from overwhelming their friendship after they both fell in love with the lovely
Teresa.)
acumen - correct answer ✔ (n.) keen insight (Because of his mathematical
acumen, Larry was able to figure out in minutes problems that took other
students hours.)
acute - correct answer ✔ 1. (adj.) sharp, severe (Arnold could not walk because
the pain in his foot was so acute.) 2. (adj.) having keen insight (Because she was
so acute, Libby instantly figured out how the magician pulled off his "magic.")
adamant - correct answer ✔ (adj.) impervious, immovable, unyielding (Though
public pressure was intense, the President remained adamant about his
proposal.)
adept - correct answer ✔ (adj.) extremely skilled (Tarzan was adept at jumping
from tree to tree like a monkey.)
adhere - correct answer ✔ 1. (n.) to stick to something (We adhered the poster to
the wall with tape.) 2. (n.) to follow devoutly (He adhered to the dictates of his
religion without question.)
admonish - correct answer ✔ (v.) to caution, criticize, reprove (Joe's mother
admonished him not to ruin his appetite by eating cookies before dinner.)
adorn - correct answer ✔ (v.) to decorate (We adorned the tree with ornaments.)
adroit - correct answer ✔ (adj.) skillful, dexterous (The adroit thief could pick
someone's pocket without attracting notice.)
adulation - correct answer ✔ (n.) extreme praise (Though the book was pretty
good, Marcy did not believe it deserved the adulation it received.)
adumbrate - correct answer ✔ (v.) to sketch out in a vague way (The coach
adumbrated a game plan, but none of the players knew precisely what to do.)
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adverse - correct answer ✔ (adj.) antagonistic, unfavorable, dangerous (Because
of adverse conditions, the hikers decided to give up trying to climb the mountain.)
advocate - correct answer ✔ 1. (v.) to argue in favor of something (Arnold
advocated turning left at the stop sign, even though everyone else thought we
should turn right.) 2. (n.) a person who argues in favor of something (In addition
to wanting to turn left at every stop sign, Arnold was also a great advocate of
increasing national defense spending.)
aerial - correct answer ✔ (adj.) somehow related to the air (We watched as the
fighter planes conducted aerial maneuvers.)
aesthetic - correct answer ✔ (adj.) artistic, related to the appreciation of beauty
(We hired Susan as our interior decorator because she has such a fine aesthetic
sense.)
affable - correct answer ✔ (adj.) friendly, amiable (People like to be around
George because he is so affable and good-natured.)
affinity - correct answer ✔ (n.)a spontaneous feeling of closeness (Jerry didn't
know why, but he felt an incredible affinity for Kramer the first time they met.)
affluent - correct answer ✔ (adj.) rich, wealthy (Mrs. Grebelski was affluent,
owning a huge house, three cars, and an island near Maine.)
affront - correct answer ✔ (n.) an insult (Bernardo was very touchy, and took any
slight as an affront to his honor.)
aggrandize - correct answer ✔ (v.) to increase or make greater (Joseph always
dropped the names of the famous people his father knew as a way to aggrandize
his personal stature.)
aggregate - correct answer ✔ 1. (n.) a whole or total (The three branches of the
U.S. Government form an aggregate much more powerful than its individual
parts.) 2. (v.) to gather into a mass (The dictator tried to aggregate as many
people into his army as he possibly could.)
aggrieved - correct answer ✔ (adj.) distressed, wronged, injured (The foreman
mercilessly overworked his aggrieved employees.)
agile - correct answer ✔ (adj.) quick, nimble (The dogs were too slow to catch the
agile rabbit.) agnostic (adj.) believing that the existence of God cannot be proven
or disproven (Joey's parents are very religious, but he is agnostic.)
agriculture - correct answer ✔ (n.) farming (It was a huge step in the progress of
civilization when tribes left hunting and gathering and began to develop more
sustainable methods of obtaining food, such as agriculture.)
