TTC Vocab 1

By nickykk93, Dec 2009

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Abnegate	Renounce or reject something desired or valuable
Abominable	Causing moral revulsion
Acrimonious	An angry and biter speech or debate
Acclamation	Loud and enthusiastic approval, typically to welcome or honor someone or something
Adjacent	Next to or adjoining something else
Affable	Friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to
Allusion	An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly, an indirect reference
Altercation	A noisy argument or disagreement
Amiss	Not quite right, inappropriate or out of place
Apostrophe	Address an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem
Assiduous	Showing great care or perseverance
Atheist	The theory or belief that God does not exist
Atomies	A skeleton or emaciated body
Avowal	Assert or confess openly
Benighted	In a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance, typically owing to a lack of opportunity
Billet	A place, usually a civilian's house or other nonmilitary facility, where soldiers are lodged temporarily
Blunderbuss	A short-barreled large bored gun with a flared muzzle, used at short range
Capitulate	Cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender
Carnal	Relating to physical, ecspecially sexual, needs and activities
Chifferobe	A piece of furniture with drawers on one side and hanging space on the other
Metonymy	The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
Synechdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

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