Words2 Flashcards
Acumen
N. a keen, quick, or accurate knowledge or insight
Admonish
To reprove, to express warning or disapproval
Admonition
N. a warning or a scolding
Admonitory
Adj. expressing warning or approval
Adroit
Adj. adept, dexterous
Maladroit
Adj clumsy or bungling
Adulation
N. an excessive praise, intense adoration
Adulterate
V. To reduce purity by combining with other ingredients
Unadulterated
Pure
Adumbrate
V. To foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest, or outline sketchily
Advocate
V. To argue for or support a case
Aesthetic
Adj. dealing with,appreciative of,or responsive to art or the beautiful.
Aggrandize
V. To increase in intensity, power, or prestige; to make appear greater
Alacrity
N. eager and enthusiastic willingness
Alchemy
N. a magical or wonderful transformation.
Alloy
V. To commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior
Amalgamate
V. To combine several elements into a whole
Ambiguity
N. uncertainty in meaning.
Ambivilance
N. the qualities of having opposing ideas or feelings
Ameliorate
V. T make better or more tolerable
Amenable
Am. Agreeable; responsive to suggestion
Anachronism
N. something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
Anathema
N. a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing.
The precepts of eugenics became almost universally anathema around the world once the horrors of world war 2 began to be revealed.
Anodyne
Adj. soothing.
N. something that assuages or allays pain, or comforts
Don’t you agree that nothing is so anodyne as a bubble bath?