English- ALL VOCAB

Abate

to lessen; to make less severe

Aberration

deviance; not normal

Acumen

insightfullness

Adamant

not yielding

Adroit

skillful

Allocate

to assign

Alacrity

eagerness

Altruistic

generous

Abhor

to hate

Abstruse

difficult to understand

Anthropology

the study of human beings

Antipathy

hatred of things/people

Accost

to confront

Apathetic

lack of feeling

Acrimony

bitter animosity/bad feelings

Amiable

friendly; getting along well with others

Arcane

known only to a few; specialized vocabulary

Antediluvian

very old

Apt

incluned to do something

Amenable

yielding; giving in to do things

Ascendancy

occupation of a position of dominant power or influence

Ascetic

abstaining from all wordly pleasures for religious reasons

Assiduous

showing great care and persevererance

Assuage

to relieve; to ease; to lessen

Atrophy

to waste away; to wither; to shrivel

August

dignified; magestic

Aura

a feeling; a sense

Auspicious

favorable

Autocrat

a dictator

Automaton

person who acts like a robot

Avarice

greed; materalistic

Banal

common; everyday; trite

Barrage

bombardment; torrent

Belie

to give a false impression of

Belligerent

aggressive; warlike

Benevolent

generous; good

Bequeath

to hand down through a will

Berate

to scold harshly

Bipartisanship

supported by two opposing groups

Blighted

destroyed

Bog

swamp or marsh

Bolster

to support

Bombastic

pompous; overstated

Boorish

crude; disrespectful to gender/ethnicity

Buoyant

floating

Burgeon

to grow or to flourish

Buttress

the projecting part of a building to offer support

Byzantine

convoluted or complex

Cacophonous

discordant sound

Cajole

to coax or urge someone to do something

Callous

insensitive; unfeeling

Cantankerous

irritable; griping or complaining

Capricious

fickle; changeable

Castigate

to belittle; to put down

Caustic

bitter or sarcastic

Censorious

to be severely critical of others

Censure

to scold; condemn; castigate

Cerebral

intellectual; very smart

Chagrin

great mortification; embarassment

Charlatan

a swindler; a scam artist

Chastise

to belittle; to correct

Churlish

vulgar; boorish

Circuitous

indirect; taking different routes

Circumscribe

to restrict; to allocate

Clandestine

doing something in a sneaky way

Coalesce

to come together; to form a whole

Compendious

to the point; very succinct

Complacency

self-satisfaction; smugness

Compliant

yielding

Concur

to agree with another person

Conflagration

a large, destructive fire

Confluence

a place where things flow together and merge

Congenial

pleasant and kind

Conscientious

careful; exact

Consternation

dismay; worrisome; stressful

Eclectic

from diverse sources

Efface

to erase

Elusive

difficult to catch or define

Empirical

based on observation and experimentation

Enigma

a puzzle or mystery

Epiphany

sudden realization

Equanimity

calmness

Erudite

scholarly; intelligent; showing great knowledge

Excavate

unearth; to dig up

Exhort

encourage

Exorbitant

too expensive

Expedient

convenient; practical

Expose

to make visible by uncovering

Extol

to praise and worship

Facile

easy; superficial; effortless

Fallacious

deceitful; incorrect

Fanaticism

excessive enthusiasm

Fastidious

careful; exacting

Fathom

to understand; to comprehend

Felicitous

well-suited; happy and content

Finesse

tact; elegance

Flagrant

evident; obvious

Flippant

disrespectful; cursory

Florid

flushed; flowery

Flummox

confuse; bewilder