notes in class

1.      begrudge (v.)

-To feel unhappy that somebody has something because you do not think that they deserve

-example: I don't begrudge her being so successful.

2.      abnegate (v.)

-To renounce (a right or privilege)

-example: It can abnegate useless samples and make the knowledge of study objects accumulate.

3.      aberration (n.)

- Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course

-example: The resultant defect is known as chromatic aberration.

4.      abridgment (n.)

-A condensed form as of a book or play.

-example: I gave him an abridgment of this whole history, I gave him a picture of my conduct for fifty years in miniature.

5.      abstain (v.)

-To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).

-example: The doctor asked the patient to abstain from smoking.

6.      accede (v.)

- To agree.

-example: They are ready to accede to our request for further information.

7.      accelerate (v.)

- To move faster.

-example: Fertilizer will accelerate the growth of these tomato plants.

8.      accessory (n.)

- A person or thing that aids the principal agent.

-example: He was using his accessory muscles of respiration.

9.      mutiny (n.)

-Rebellion against lawful or constituted authority.

-example: Discontented men stirred the crew to mutiny.

10.    myriad (n.)

- A vast indefinite number.

-example: A myriad of stars surround the moon.

11.    cant (v.)

-To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.

-example: It was their favorite cant.

12.     callow (adj.)

-Without experience of the world.

-example: I believed a lot of things in my callow youth that I don't believe now.

13.     cajole (v.)

-To impose on or dupe by flattering speech.

-example: They tried to cajole their daughter out of marrying him.

14.     cadence (n.)

- Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops.

-example: Frances spoke with a soft, musical Edinburgh cadence.

15.     Brevity (n.)

-the quality of using few words when speaking or writing

-example: The report is a masterpiece of brevity.

16.     blockade (n.)

-the action of surrounding or closing a place, especially a port, in order to stop people or goods from coming in or out

-example: The police set up blockades on highways leading out of the city.

17.     boisterous (adj.)

-of people, animals or behavior / noisy and full of life and energy

-example: It was a challenge, keeping ten boisterous seven-year-olds amused.

18.     bolster (v.)

-to improve something or make it stronger

-example: Falling interest rates may help to bolster up the economy.

19.     brandish (v.)

-to hold or wave something, especially a weapon, in an aggressive or threatening way

-example: She answered with a brandish of her umbrella.

20.     undulate (v.)

- to move like a wave or in waves.

-example: We soon see a field of wheat undulate In the breeze.

21.     absent-minded (adj.)

-lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.

-example: He's very learned but rather absent-minded.

22.     absolve (v.)

-to free from sin or its penalties.

-example: The court absolved him of all responsibility for the accident.

23.     absorption (n.)

-the process of a liquid, gas or other substance being taken in

-example: Vitamin D is necessary to aid the absorption of calcium from food.

24.     unsophisticated (adj.)

-showing inexperience.

-example: He was confiding, good-natured, unsophisticated, and companionable.

25.     urchin (n.)

- a roguish, mischievous boy.

-example: An urchin girl stood there, wrapped in a huge shawl.