Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 1A
Mother Tongue/Grammar
Vocabulary 2A
Vocabulary 2
100
Become less in amount or intensity.
What is "abate"?
100
Give up, as in power.
What is "abdicate"?
100
Word that replaces a noun.
What is a pronoun?
100
A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation.
What is "bias"?
100
Full of rough and exuberant animal spirits.
What is "boisterous"?
200
Choose not to consume.
What is "abstain"?
200
Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
What is "arid"?
200
The specific word that the pronoun refers to to or replaces.
What is the 'antecedent"?
200
Showing or motivated by sympathy, understanding and generosity.
What is 'benevolent"?
200
Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
What is "canny"?
300
Concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste.
What is "aesthetic"?
300
A state or condition markedly different from normal.
What is "aberration"?
300
She wrote "Mother Tongue"
Who is Amy Tan"?
300
Unrestrained by convention or propriety.
What is "brazen"?
300
Large in capacity.
What is "capacious"?
400
Characterized by friendship and good will.
What is "amicable"?
400
A shelter from danger or hardship.
What is "asylum"?
400
The name of Amy Tan's Book?
What is "The Joy Luck Club"?
400
The quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability.
What is "camaraderie"?
400
Someone who can see into the future.
What is "clairvoyant"?
500
A state of misfortune or affliction.
What is "adversity"?
500
Of a different time, chronologically misplaced.
What is "anachronistic"?
500
Anybody, both, few, many, either, neither, one, anyone, everybody, nobody, several, somebody.
What are "indefinite pronouns"?
500
Surrender under agreed conditions.
What is "capitulate"?
500
Marked by rudeness or peremptory shortness.
What is "brusque"?
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