High freq (A-C)

• subsidise or moderate
• Rather than leaving immediately, they waited for the storm to abate.

• abnormal or deviant
• Given the aberrant nature of the data, we came to doubt the validity of the entire experiment.

• suspended action
• The deal was held in abeyance until her arrival.

depart secretly and hide

• sparing in eating and drinking; temperate (= not extreme)
• Concerned whether her vegetarian son's abstemious diet provided him with sufficient protein, the worried mother pressed food on him.

• warn; reprove (=take to task)
• When her friends questioned her religious beliefs, she admonished then, declaring that she would worship as she pleased.

• make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
• It is a crime to adulterate foods without informing the buyer.

artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful

gather; accumulate

cheerful promptness; eagerness

relieve

• combine; unite in one body
• The unions will attempt to amalgamate their groups into one national body.

unclear or doubtful in meaning

• contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
• Torn between loving her parents one minute and hating them the next, she was confused by the ambivalence of her feelings.

• improve
• Many social workers have attempted to ameliorate the conditions of people living in slums.

• something or someone misplaced in time
• Shakespeare's reference to clocks in Julius Caesar is an anachronism as no clocks existed in Caesar's time.

• comparable
• She called our attention to the things that had been done in an analogous situation and recommended that we do the same.

• absence of a governing body; state of disorder
• The assassination of the leaders led to a period of anarchy.

• abnormal; irregular
• She was placed in the anomalous position of seeming to approve procedures that she despised.

aversion (=a feeling of intense dislike); dislike

• lacking of caring; indifference
• A firm believer in democratic government, she could not understand the apathy of people who never bothered to vote.

• pacify or soothe; relieve
• appease the crying baby

inform

official approval

• acquire; take possession of for one's own use (by force)
• The ranch owner appropriated the lands that had originally been set aside for the Indian's use.

• hard; strenuous
• Her arduous efforts had sapped her energy.

• without guile (=without deception); open and honest
• Red riding hood's artless comment of "What big eyes you have" indicated her innocent surprise of the changed appearance.

practicing self-denial; austere (=practising great self-denial)

• diligent (=Quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness)
• It took him weeks of assiduous labor before he was satisfied with his portrait of his son.

• ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)
• Jilted by Jane, Mark tried to assuage his heartache by indulging in ice cream.

• make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density, force, degree)
• intense shock attenuates or lessens

• daring; bold
• Audiences cheered as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia made their audacious leap to freedom from Darth Vader.

• forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
• The headmaster's austere demeanor tend to scare off the more timid students who never visited his study willingly.

self-governing

• assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as a fact
• The self-proclaimed psychic averred that because he had extrasensory perception on which to base his predictions, he needed no seismographs in order to foretell earthquakes.

hackneyed; commonplace; lack of originality

contradict; give a false impression

kindly; doing good

support; reinforce

pompous; using inflated language

rude; insensitive

grow forth; send out buds

In the spring, the plants that burgeon are a promis of the beauty that is to come.

support; prop up

discordant; inharmonious (not in harmony)

unpredictable; fickle

punishment; severe criticism

agent that influences the pace of a chemical reaction while it remains unaffected and unchanged; person or thing that causes action

burning; sarcastically biting

trickery; deception

thicken; congeal; clot

concluding section of a musical or literary musical; something that rounds out, summarises or concludes

convincing

corresponding in extent, degree, amount,etc; proportionate

brief, comprehensive summary

trying to please; overly polite; obliging

yielding; conforming to requirements

reconciling (reconcile); soothing

overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse

confuse; puzzle

person competent to act as a judge of art etc.; a lover of an art

claim; thesis

quarrelsome

penitent (Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds)

riddle; difficult problem

approach; tend to meet; come together

coiled around; involved; intricate

cowardly