Abash

"Naturally I was rather abashed at the prospect of meeting my mom's friend's son, they'd been plotting our marriage since birth.

To cause to feel embarrassed, disconcerted, ashamed

Humiliate

Embarrass

Abdicate

"The queen would be forced to abdicate her power when she married the peasant farmer."

Give up power or position (usually kings or monarchs)

To give up duties or obligations

Aberrant

"Her aberrant behavior let me know that something had happened at the meeting last night after I had left."

(N)- one who's behavior is abnormal

(ADJ) straying from the right way, abnormal

Abet

"The young boy was abetted to sell drugs by his drug addicted foster parents."

Abeyance

"When construction has stop because of the rain but is scheduled to resume once it get sunny again.."

Is a temporary stop to something or a pauce, postponement.

Aboriginal

An example of people are described as aboriginal are the Natives of Australia

Abridge

An example of abrdige is to shorten a novel in order to record it as an audio book.

To abridge something is to reduce or condense the size or scope

Shorten

Abstemious

A vegan is an example of someone who is abstemious.

Someone who abstains or is moderate, often in the consuption of food or beverage.

Acclimate

An example is a student who begins to make friends and joins clubs at her new school.

Accost

An example would be a person on a bus yelling at someone in order to get his seat is accosting 

Acquiesce

Agreeing to go on vacation to the mountains when you really wanted to go to the sea.

Acumen

Person with strong common sense is an example of someone with acumen

Acumen is the ability to quickly and accurately understand and deal with a situation and choice

Insight

Adamant

An unchanging belief that God exists is an example of an adamant belief.

Insistent

describes someone who will never change his mind or something that will never be changed.

Admonish

To reprimand a child who is behaving badly is an example of admonish.

to let someone know that you are not happy with his/her action or to scold a person <v>

warn gently

Adulterate

"when an organic beauty company adds harsh or harmful chemicals to their product."

to make something inferior or less pure by adding harmful;

to contaminate or corrupt

Adversity

An example of adversity is poverty

Refers to hardships, challenges or misfortune

Aegis

Example is a foster child being under the care of a child welfare agency or a marathon being sponsored by a major org.

Protection, Sponsorship, Direction

"That which protects."

Aesthetic

to say a particular item is beautiful, an example of someone who is aesthetic might be an artist

Describes the pleasant, postive, or artful appearance of a person or thing; describes being interested in how something loooks or feels

pleasing to the senses, beautiful

Affable

Person who makes you feel welcome is an example of an affable person

Describes one who is friendly or easy to talk to

Affinity

A married couple is an example of affinity

A strong connection or relationship between people or things

fondness

Aggregate

describes all in a collection of students in one grade level

Aghast

someone might feel aghast upon returning home to find his house burned down

Describes someone or something who has been surprised or horrifed/ awed

Horrified

Alacrity

"The dog responded to his owners commands with great alacrity."

Alienate

When a family member has been abusing drugs and their behavior has caused the rest of the fam to no longer tolerate having them around.

Alleviate

To smoke marijuana to ease tension of a incurable disease

To make something easier to deal with or endure

lessen, assuage

Altruism

Charity is an  altruism

caring about other people and their needs without regard to your own

benevolence, generosity

Amalgamation

A merger between Kmart and Sears, or Instagram & Facebook

In business- a merger of two or more companies

Mixture

Consolidation of two+

Ambiguous

A politician might respond ambigulously on controversial issues

something that is unclear or not easily describable, easily pegged to be on one side or another

Ambivalence

One might feel ambivalent in occation that he/she is strongly connected to both sides.

state at whcih you might lack certainty or ability to make decisions

conflicting emotions

Amenable

An example is someone who is a newly hired intern who is eager to make a good impression/ be well liked

Amorphous

a ghostly shadow is an example of an amorphous shadow

describes something that does not have a distinct form or shape

Shapeless

Anachronistic

Listening to vinyl records in the 21st century is an anachronistic activity

describes something that is not in the correct time period

out of historical order

Analogous

A diamond and ice are both hard, clear and refect ice- an example of analogous

describes something that is like something else in certain ways

similar

Anarchy

"Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy."

Absence of government

Chaos due to lack of authority to enforce rules

Anathema

"Adolf Hitler is an example of an anathema"

A person or thing who is detested or hated.

A curse

Animus

"For some,this jurisdiction was motivated by anti-black amimus"

Hate

Animating force or underlying purpose

a feeling of strong ill will

Anomalous

A person with 50 piercings and tattoos is an example of someone who is anomalous.

Anamalous means something absnormal or deviating from the usual method or norm

Antipathy

example of antipathy is how staunch Republicans might feel about a Democrat

Strong feeling of opposition or dislike

repulsion, hate

Antipodal

"Australia and Great Britain occupy antipodal regions."

Of or relating to, or situated on the opposite sides of the earth.

Exactly opposite.

Antiquated

An example of something that is antiquated is a rotary, "dinosaur" phone.

Describes something that is out of date, or no longer useful.

Outdated, obsolete

Apathy

A student who does not care one way or another if he passes a class is an example of student who has apathy towards the class.

Apathy is a lack of interest or emotion

indifference

Appease

An example is that a mother might give her child a lollipop to appease him after listening to himher beg for hours.

To pacify or quiet someone by giving them what they want.

Pacify

Approbation

Ex- is a speech given by the college president after the footbal team earned the state championship.

Artless

"Her artless way of thinking allowed her co-workers to take advantage time and time again."

Lacking skill or art

Uncultured, ignornant

Naive, simple

Innocent

Ascetic

An exmple of an ascetic is a monk.

Self-Denying.

A person who lives a live of strick self-discipline, contemplation, and without pleasures or comforts.

Assiduous

Example of assiduous sound is that of cars going by on a highway.

Describes something that is on-going

Someone or thing that is diligent and constant.

Assimilate

 "A mothers milk is the first thing assimilated into a baby's diet."

To assimilate is to become like other, or help another person adapt to a new environment

Absorb

Audacity

 A person who publicly screams at his friend for a minor offense is an ex of someone acting with audacity

State of being bold or daring, particularly with disregard for danger or rudeness

Boldness

Auspicious

an ausicious occasion is a high school graduation

Austere

Someone who might have austere mannerisms is a recent widow

Describes someone or something that is a minimalist. Something that is very somber or someone inflexible or extreme.

Harsh; Spartan

Autonomous

An ex is a government that can run itself without aid from an outside country.

Describes a person or entity that is self-controlling and no governed by outside forces

Self-Governing

Avarice

Ex is deciding which college degree to get and which job to take based on the expected salary

mean greed or a great desire to be rich

Greed

Motivated solely by greed

Axiom

It is an axiom enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Self-evident truth

a universally accepted rule

Banal

Something banal are boring knock knock jokes that have been told many times before

Something common or overused

Trite

Belie

Ex of a belie is for a newspaper to provide the wrong fact about a story

Misrepresent

Contradict

Belittle

a teacher who choose to make fun of her students accomplishments is belittling

Disparage

speak about someone or something in a way that makes them seem less important or inferior

Bellicose

Ex- The Greek God of War, Ares

Describes someone or something aggressive and eager or willing to fight.

warlike

Benefactor

Ex is a person who gives a new artist money to have a gallery show

usually one who lends support, especially financial support to a cause

Patron

Boisterous

ex is a drunk person who shouts loudly across the room

Describes one who is noisy, loud, roudy

Boor

ex is the town drunkard who often causes scenes

A rude, awkward or ill mannered person

vulgar person

Bourgeois

Ex is a mid-priced restaurant where many locals frequent

means relating to the middle class

Bucolic

something that would be described as Bucolic is a farmhouse

describes people or thing related to the country or the country life

Rustic

Buttress

"The leaning tower of pizza is in desperate need of a buttress."

Is a support for a building usually a brike or stone

or to provide life support and justification for an arguement or idea

Cachet

The dress was designed by a Oscar De La Renta, adding cachet.

Prestige

Mark or sign showing something is genuine or authentic or of superior quality

Cacophony

Ex is an untalented band warming up before a performance

sounds that are loud and irritating/ out of tune

Dissonance, harsh noises

Callow

A forty year old man with the maturity level of a fifteen year old is an example of this callow

Inexperienced

immature

is a law or principle by which people are judged 

or a member of a clergy

Capacious

"The dog den was capacious enough for 10 dogs to run freely."

Spacious

something large and roomy

Capitulate

When someone ask something of you and you give in to everything they request

To surrender or give in to all demands

Surrender

Castigate

"The witches at the Selam Witch Trials were castigated."

To criticize or punish someone severely

Cathartic

"The poet claimed writing the book from a remote place was a cathartic experience."

Catholic

"The man had catholic tastes!"

Caustic

ex- effect mustard gas has on the skin

scathing

describes substance that burns or eats away by chemical reaction

or hurtful remark or relationship

Censure

Ex- The organic farmers association run an article on GMO usage they are censuring ..

A strong judgement or disapproval

To condemn

Chagrin

"Exposing the fitness instructor in her use in plastic surgergy was chagrinning to her career."

A feeling of embarrassment and annoyance because one has failed or been disappointed, mortification

Charlatan

someone who pretends to be able to tell the future

A fraud. one who pretends to have some skill or be something one is not

A quack.

Chary

"to be chary of offending others"

Not taking chances, careful, cautious

Not giving freely, sparing

Coagulate

It took the dessert 5 hours to coagulate

To cause (usually a liquid) to become soft, semi solid, curdle

Thicken

Coda

The witness was asked to read the coda  of the report he had given.

The last piece of music or a concluding statement

Concluding passage

Cogent

ex- idea that climate change is caused by actions of humans as delivered by Al Gore

Describes something is convincing or believable

well-put, convincing

Collusion

ex- When two people plan to rob a bank together

describes a conspiracy or secret agreement for an illegal or immoral reason or cause

Conspiracy