AEnglish Vocabulary List

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Vocabulary Cards: 38

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  • 1.
    • excellence
    • honor
    • difference
    • contrast
    • discrimination
  • 2.
    • treat (a person) as a celebrity
  • 3.
    • provide with food necessary for life and growth
  • 4.
    • a person who governs in place of a ruler who is ill, absent, or still a child
    • ADJ. Ex. the Prince regent
  • 5.
    • changeable (in affections or friendship)
    • faithless
  • 6.
    • prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country
    • peculiar to a particular region or people
  • 7.
    • preceding events that influence what comes later
    • ancestors or early background
  • 8.
    • obligated
    • indebted
    • owing thanks
    • obliged or indebted from gratitude
  • 9.
    • illicit lover
  • 10.
    • enormously large or extensive
  • 11.
    • dose (of liquids)
    • liquid dose
  • 12.
    • nonsense
    • nonsensical or unintelligible talk or writing
    • babbling
  • 13.
    • origin or source of something
    • deriving
  • 14.
    • flattery
  • 15.
    • unruly
    • difficult to manage
  • 16.
    • older person who accompanies and supervises a young unmarried woman
  • 17.
    • fertile
    • abundant
    • growing healthily and in large amounts
    • excessively ornate
    • rich and splendid
  • 18.
    • one of the hereditary classes in Hindu society
    • social stratification
    • prestige
  • 19.
    • utensil with perforated bottom used for straining
  • 20.
    • lack of balance or symmetry
    • disproportion
  • 21.
    • location
    • place (of a crime, trial, gathering, etc.)
  • 22.
    • weakness
  • 23.
    • outmoded
    • retired or disqualified because of age
    • obsolete
  • 24.
    • calm
    • pacify
  • 25.
    • casual
    • done without prior thought or preparation
  • 26.
    • government run by religious leaders
  • 27.
    • color
    • aspect
  • 28.
    • division of a long poem
  • 29.
    • recent convert
    • new member of a religious group
    • beginner
  • 30.
    • insult
    • offense
    • intentional act of disrespect
    • V: insult or hurt the feelings of intentionally
  • 31.
    • barren
    • (of land) dry
    • unproductive
  • 32.
    • exceed
  • 33.
    • flawless
    • absolutely clean
    • spotless
  • 34.
    • support or base as for a pillar or statue
  • 35.
    • move gently (in air or in seas) by wind or waves
  • 36.
    • plead
    • ask earnestly
  • 37.
    • wasteful (of money)
    • dissipated
    • wildly immoral
    • N: profligate person
    • dissolute
  • 38.
    • decay
    • fall to a lower level (of morality, civilization, or art)
    • ADJ. decadent