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Vocabulary Flashcard: Letter A 21 Flashcards 
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to hate, detest Example: Because he always wound up kicking himself in the head when he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor the sport. |
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wretched, pitiful Example: After losing all her money, falling into a puddle, and breaking her ankle, Eloise was abject. |
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denial of comfort to oneself Example: The holy man slept on the floor, took only cold showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation. |
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to abolish, usually by authority Example: The Bill of Rights assures that the government cannot abrogate our right to a free press. |
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freedom from blame, guilt, sin Example: Once all the facts were known, the jury gave Angela absolution by giving a verdict of not guilty. |
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hard to comprehend Example: Everyone else in the class understood geometry easily, but John found the subject abstruse. |
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to stress, highlight Example: Psychologists agree that those people who are happiest accentuate the positive in life. |
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high praise Example: Greg’s excellent poem won the acclaim of his friends. |
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helpful, obliging, polite Example: Though the apartment was not big enough for three people, Arnold, Mark, and Zebulon were all friends and were accommodating to each other. |
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to confront verbally Example: 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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biting, bitter in tone or taste Example: Jill became extremely acerbic and began to cruelly make fun of all her friends. |
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bitterness, discord Example: 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. |
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impervious, immovable, unyielding Example: Though public pressure was intense, the President remained adamant about his proposal. |
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to caution, criticize, reprove Example: Joe’s mother admonished him not to ruin his appetite by eating cookies before dinner. |
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skillful, dexterous Example: The adroit thief could pick someone’s pocket without attracting notice. |
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to sketch out in a vague way Example: The coach adumbrated a game plan, but none of the players knew precisely what to do. |
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somehow related to the air Example: We watched as the fighter planes conducted aerial maneuvers. |
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friendly, amiable Example: People like to be around George because he is so affable and good-natured. |
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Example: rich, wealthy (Mrs. Grebelski was affluent, owning a huge house, three cars, and an island near Maine. |
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to increase or make greater Example: Joseph always dropped the names of the famous people his father knew as a way to aggrandize his personal stature. |
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 Completed! Keep practicing to master all of them. |
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