Wordlist 2

Question 1

adulation (n)

The band enjoy the adulation of their fans wherever they go.

(adj): adulatory; (v): adulate

Answer 1

flattery; admiration

Question 2

advent (n)

Most Americans were unaware of the advent of the nuclear Age until the news of Hiroshima reached them.

Answer 2

arrival

Question 3

adventitious (adj)

He found this adventitious meeting with his friend extremely fortunate.

Answer 3

accidental; casual

Question 4

adversary (n)

The young wrestler struggled to defeat his adversary.

(adj): adversarial: involving people who are in opposition and who argue against each other.

Answer 4

opponent

Question 5

aerie (n)

The mother eagle swooped down on the unwitting rabbit and bore it off to her aerie high in the Rocky Mountains.

Answer 5

nest of a large bird of prey (eagle, hawk)

Question 6

aesthetic (adj)

aesthete (n)

The beauty of Tiffany’s stained glass appealed to Esther’s aesthetic sense.

Answer 6

artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciation of the beauty

Question 7

affable (adj)

syn: genial|(n): affability

Accustmed to cold, aloof supervisors, Nicholas was amazed at how affable his new employer was.

Answer 7

easily approachable; warmly friendly

Question 8

affected (adj)

Don’t use such strange words - it makes you sound affected.

ant: unaffected | (n): affectation

Answer 8

artificial; pretended; assumed in order to press

Question 9

affidavit (n)

The court refused to accept his statement unless he presented it in the form of an affidavit.

Answer 9

written statement made under oath

Question 10

affix (v)

First the registrar had to affix her signature to the license; then she had to affix for official seal.

Answer 10

fasten; attach; add on

Question 11

affliction (n)

(v): afflict: affect sb/sth un an unpleasant or harmful way.

Even in the midst of ger affliction, Elizabeth tried to keep up the spirits of those around her.

Answer 11

state of distress; cause of suffering

Question 12

affront (n)

His speech was an affront to many in the local community.

(v): affront

Answer 12

insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect

Question 13

aftermath (n)

People around the world wondered what the aftermath of China’s violent suppression of the student protests would be.

Answer 13

consequences; outcomel upshot

Question 14

agenda (n)

We had so much difficulty agreeing upon an agenda that there was very little time for the meeting.

Answer 14

items of business at a meeting

Question 15

agglomeration (n)

(v): agglomerate

It tooks weeks to assort the agglomeration of miscellanous items she had collected on her trip.

Answer 15

collection; heap

Question 16

aggregate (v)

(n): aggregation

Before the Wall Street scandals, dealers in so-called junk bonds managed to aggregate great wealth in short periods of time.

Answer 16

gather; accumulate

Question 17

aggressor (n)

(n): agression (adj): agressive

Before you phunish both boys for fighting, see whether you can determine which on was the aggressor.

Answer 17

attacker

Question 18

aghast (adj)

He was aghast at the nerve of the speaker who has insulted his host

Answer 18

horrified

Question 19

agitate (v)

Her fiery remarks agitated the already angry mob.

(n): agitation, agitator | (adj): agitated

Answer 19

stir up; disturb

Question 20

agnostic (n)

Agnostics say we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of god.

Answer 20

one who is skeptical of the existence or knowablity of a god or any ultimate reality.

Question 21

agrarian (adj)

The country is gradually losin gits agrarian occupation and turning more and more to an industrial point of view.

Answer 21

pertaining to land or its cultivation

Question 22

alacrity (n)

Phil and Dave were raring to get off to the mountains; they packed up their ski gear and climbed into the van with alacrity.

Answer 22

cheerful promptness

Question 23

alchemy (n)

(n): alchemist.

The changing of baser metals into gold was the goal of the students of alchemy.

Answer 23

medieval chemistry

Question 24

alcove (n)

Though their apartment lacked a full-scale dining room, an alcove adjacent to the living make ad adequate breakfast nook for the young couple.

Answer 24

nook; small, recessed section of a room

Question 25

**alias (n)** | John Smith's alias was Bob Jones.

Answer 25

an assumed name

Question 26

**alimentary (adj)** ## Footnote The alimentary canal in our bodies is so named because digestion of food occers there.

Answer 26

supplying nourishment

Question 27

**alimony (n)** | /ˈælɪməni/ ## Footnote Mrs. Jones was awarded $200 monthly alimony by the court when was divorced from her husband.

Answer 27

payment by a husband to his divorced wife (or vice versa)

Question 28

**allay (v)** ## Footnote The crew tried to allay the fears of the passengers by announcing that the fire had been controlled.

Answer 28

calm; pacify

Question 29

**allegiance (n)** ## Footnote Not even a term in prison could shake Lech Walesa's allegiance to Solidarity, the Polish trade union he had helped to found.

Answer 29

loyalty

Question 30

**allegory (n)** | (adj): allegorical

Answer 30

story in which characters are used as symbols; fable

Question 31

**alliteration (n)** | "The furrow followeed free" is an example of alliteration.

Answer 31

repetition of beginning sound in poetry

Question 32

**alloy (n)** | Alloys of gold are used more frequently than the pure metal.

Answer 32

a mixture as of metals

Question 33

**alloy (v)**

Answer 33

mix; make less pure; lessen or moderate

Question 34

**allure (v)** | (n): allure: the quality of being attractive and exciting (adj):alluring ## Footnote Allured by the song of the sirens, the helsman steered the ship toward the reef.

Answer 34

entice; attract

Question 35

**allusion (n)** | (v): allude | (adj): allusive ## Footnote His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings.

Answer 35

indirect reference

Question 36

**aloft (adv)** | She held the glass aloft.

Answer 36

upward

Question 37

**altercation (n)** ## Footnote A youth became involved in an altercation with a police officer over a parking ticket.

Answer 37

noisy quarrel; heated dispute

Question 38

**amalgamate (v)** | (n): amalgation, amalgam: a mixture or combination ## Footnote The unions will attempt to amalgate their groups into one national body.

Answer 38

combine; unite in one body

Question 39

**amass (v)** | The miser;s aim is to amass and hoard as much gold as possible.

Answer 39

collect

Question 40

**ambience (n)** | ambient (adj) ## Footnote She went to the restaurant not for the food but for the ambience.

Answer 40

environment; atmosphere

Question 41

**ambivalence (N)** | (adj): ambivalent ## Footnote Tom between loving her parents one minute and hating them the next, she was confused by the ambivalence of her feelings.

Answer 41

the state of having contradictory or conflicting emtional attitudes

Question 42

**amble (n)** | (v): amble ## Footnote When she first mounted the horse, she was afreaid to urge the animal to go faster than a gentle amble.

Answer 42

moving at an easy pace

Question 43

**ambulatory (adj)** ## Footnote Juan was a highly ambulatory patient; not only did he refuse to be confined to bed, but he insisted on riding his skateboard up and down the halls.

Answer 43

able to walk, not bedridden

Question 44

**ameliorate (v)** | (n): amelioration ## Footnote The side-effects of the treatment can be ameliorated to some extent.

Answer 44

improve; make better sth that was bad or not good enough

Question 45

**amenable (adj)** ## Footnote You should find him amenable to reasonable arguments.

Answer 45

willing to be influenced by sth/sb