High School Vocabulary Lesson 1

Match the following

• wretched or pitiful

• acumen

• quickness of intellectual insight

• abject

• to approach and speak to someone boldly and aggressively

• abhor

• to hate or detest

• accost

Match the following

• a place of residence or a home

• acclaim

• to end, usually by authority

• abode

• artistic or related to one's sense of beauty

• aesthetic

• high praise

• abrogate

Match the following

• an abnormality, irregularity, or deviation

• aberration

• difficult to understand

• accede

• to agree to a demand or request

• abstruse

Match the following

• accretion

• in a way that is appropriate; properly

• accordingly

• a slow growth in size or amount

• albeit

• even though; although

quickness of intellectual insight (accede, accost, acumen, accretion)

a slow growth in size or amount (accede, accost, acumen, accretion)

to agree to a demand or request (accede, accost, acumen, accretion)

to approach and speak to someone boldly and aggressively (accede, accost, acumen, accretion)

difficult to understand (abhor, aesthetic, abrogate, abstruse)

to hate or detest (abhor, aesthetic, abrogate, abstruse)