25 vocabularies abide: Dwell; abide by: comply with; put up with; tolerate; Ex. abide by the rules; Ex. I cant abide rude people. abject: (of a condition) wretched; as low as possible; lacking pride; very humble; showing lack of self-respect; Ex. abject apology abjure: renounce upon oath ablution: washing abnegation: renunciation; self-sacrifice; self-abnegation abode: dwelling place; home abolish: cancel; put an end to abominable: detestable; extremely unpleasant abominate: loathe; hate aboriginal: being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native; indigenous; N. aborigine abortive: unsuccessful; fruitless abrasive: rubbing away; tending to grind down abridge: condense or shorten abrogate: abolish abscission: cutting off; separation abscond: depart secretly and hide absolute: complete; totally unlimited; having complete power; certain; not relative; Ex. absolute honesty/ruler; CF. absolutism absolve: pardon (an offense) abstain: refrain; withhold from participation; intentionally not use ones vote; abstemious: sparing in eating and drinking; temperate abstinence: restraint from pleasant things, esp. eating or drinking; CF. abstention: act of abstaining from vote abstract: theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational abstruse: obscure; profound; difficult to understand abusive: coarsely insulting; physically harmful abut: border upon; adjoin
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:36:42 +0000
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