English III AP - PSAT vocab group 1
Terms : Hide Images [1]
| adj. - Theoretical; not concrete | ||
| adj. - Hard to understand | ||
| verb - Praise; applaud | ||
| noun - An award, or praise | ||
| adj. - Reluctantly agreeable; compliant | ||
| noun - Words or behavior filled with harshness or anger | ||
| adj. - Refusing to change; stubborn, unyielding | ||
| adj. - Skillful in physical activity, or in handling difficult situations | ||
| verb - To support; plead for; speak on behalf of | ||
| adj. - Friendly; easygoing | ||
| noun - Positive statement; assertion; agreement | ||
| verb - To push someone away, or cause him to separate from people | ||
| adj. - Detached; apart; indifferent | ||
| adj. - Unselfish; caring | ||
| adj. - Able to use both hands with equal skill | ||
| adj. - Unclear; vague; having several possible interpretations | ||
| noun - Indecision; feeling of being pulled in two directions | ||
| verb - To make an unpleasant situation better; to improve | ||
| noun - Friendship | ||
| adj. - Without shape or form | ||
| adj. - Similar | ||
| noun - A lack of order; chaos | ||
| noun - A religious curse, or the thing or person being cursed | ||
| adj. - In hostile competition; opposing | ||
| adj. - too old to be useful; outdated; obselete | ||
| noun - Opposite | ||
| noun - Lack of interest or concern | ||
| noun - Top; highest point; summit | ||
| verb - Calm; pacify | ||
| adj. - Selected by random choice without solid reason | ||
| adj. - Secret; mysterious | ||
| adj. - Old; antiquated | ||
| adj. - Acting superior, obnoxious, smug, or rude | ||
| adj. - Able to speak clearly and effectively | ||
| noun - Domination; controlling power | ||
| noun - Person who rejects physical comfort and luxury for self-discipline | ||
| adj. - Roughness; harshness; irritability | ||
| verb - Attack with words or force | ||
| adj. - Persistent; hard-working; diligent; attentive to detail | ||
| verb - Relieve; ease; pacify | ||
| adj. - Wise; insightfully clever; shrewd | ||
| verb. - Waste away; wither | ||
| adj. - Brazen; brash; nervy | ||
| verb - Make larger; increase | ||
| adj. - Taking place under promising conditions; likely to succeed | ||
| adj. - stern; plain; without luxuries | ||
| noun - Greed | ||
| adj. - Feeling repelled; wanting to avoid | ||
| adj. - harmful; menacing | ||
| adj. - Boring; trite; insipid | ||
| verb - To cheat or deceive, usually through charm; to amuse | ||
| verb - To give an impression that is the opposite of the way things really are; to misinterpret | ||
| adj. - Having a strong tendency to argue and fight | ||
| noun - Good wishes; a blessing | ||
| adj. - Kindhearted; good-natured; generous | ||
| adj. - Gentle; kind-hearted; mild | ||
| verb - To leave behind or hand down through a will; transmit | ||
| noun - Decay; disease; widespread death | ||
| verb - To support; to reinforce | ||
| noun - Speech or writing intended to impress the audience; pompous | ||
| noun - Briefness; conciseness | ||
| adj. - Pushy; obnoxiously self-assertive | ||
| noun - Harshness of sound; opposite of harmony | ||
| verb - To fool with flattery or false promises; coax; deceive | ||
| noun - Honesty; frankness | ||
| adj. - Large; roomy; spacious | ||
| verb - Surrender; yield | ||
| adj. - Unpredictable | ||
| verb - Scold; punish | ||
| adj. - Burning, either with chemicals or sarcasm | ||
| noun - Speed | ||
| verb - To criticize | ||
| verb - Punish; discipline; castigate | ||
| verb - Scold; punish; castigate | ||
| noun - Anger | ||
| verb - Draw a line around; define limits; confine; restrict | ||
| adj. - Cautious | ||
| noun - Mercy | ||
| verb - Unite; grow together | ||
| verb - To force someone by threatening or physically overpowering them | ||
| noun - Secluded or isolated from the outside world; also, a place of seclusion | ||
| adj. - Self-satisfied; unconcerned | ||
| adj. - Following someone else's demands; conforming; obeying |