english vocab

Abate

• Incapable of being expressed through words
• Lessen
• To renounce or give up under oath
• The purging of emotions or tensions

Abdicated

• Given up responsibility for
• To charge, inspire
• Drawn to the company of others, sociable
• A general breakup or dispersion

Abjure

• The purging of emotions or tensions
• A slight variation in meaning, tone, expression
• To grow or develop quickly
• To renounce or give up under oath

Acquiesce

• Agree to accept quietly
• To lower the status or stature of something
• To make or become better
• Opponent

Adversary

• Opponent
• To charge, inspire
• Forces
• Incapable of being expressed through words

Aesthetic

• A puzzle or problem
• Excessive greed
• Sensitive to beauty or good taste
• Unbiased, fair

Ameliorate

• To agree or accept as valid
• Practical
• Forces
• To make or become better

Arbitrary

• Wickedness
• Sluggish from fatigue or weakness
• Based on whims or individual preferences
• Difficult

Arduous

• To agree or accept as valid
• Difficult
• Forces
• Clear, easily understandable

Ascribe

• Extremely lively, enthusiastic
• To grow together or into one body
• Sluggish from fatigue or weakness
• To credit or assign as to a cause or source