Vocabulary English 1A

To encourage or assist, especially in wrongdoing

To regard with horror and loathing; to hate intensely

Miserable, humiliating, despicable, complete, and unrelieved

To clear of guilt or blame

To refrain from completely and voluntarily

Pertaining to a college or institution of learning; scholarly

To yield to; to agree to

To get used to (usually an environment or situation)

A habit forming practice or pursuit, usually one that is bad for a person’s health or morally objectionable; habitual use of, or devotion to

To close formally

Hostile in purpose or effect; unfavorable

To speak or argue in favor of; to give active public support to

A person who pleads in the interest of a cause or individual

Pertaining to a sense of beauty; artistic

Courteous and agreeable in manner; easy to talk to or approach.

A pretentious display of manners or sentiments that are not genuine; a peculiar habit of dress or behavior that has been adopted to impress

Prosperous or wealthy

A list or program of things to be done or acted upon

Total or collective

To gather or merge into a single whole; to amount to

The total amount or sum total of the individual parts

Swift and light in action, movement, or thought

To cause hostility or indifference where love, friendliness, or interest formerly existed

To claim that something is true but without offering any proof.

To refer to indirectly

The surrounding environment or pervading atmosphere

Wavering or uncertain because of an inability to make a choice between two contradictory feelings or viewpoints in regard to a person, thing

An official pardon granted to offenders against the government, especially for political offenses.

The misplacing of an object or event in a period to which it cannot possibly belong; anything out of its proper time frame.

Absence of governmental authority, general political and social disorder

A curse or strong denunciation; the person or thing cursed; any object of intense dislike

A brief account of some interesting or amusing incident, especially one containing biographical or historical details.

A deviation from what is normal or expected

Lack of feeling, emotion, or interest

To fill with intense horror, fear, or dismay

To fill with intense horror, fear, or dismay

To arrest or take into custody, to perceive or understand the meaning of, or to look forward to with fear or anxiety

Subject to or determined by one’s judgment; random