English 1 - Exam Vocab

(n.) a bandit, robber, outlas, highwayman

(v.) to seize for military or official use

(v.) to seize and hold a position by force or without right

(v.) to let go, give up

(n.) a raider, plunderer

(v.) to overcome, to rise above

(v.) to disagree (n.) disagreement

(v.) to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch

(v.) to incline to beforehand

(n.) an angry argument

(v.) to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty

(n.) a likeness; an outward appearance; an apparition

(v.) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed

(v.) to pardon or overlook

(n.) an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction

(v.) to save from fire or shipwreck (n.) property thus saved

(n.) a follower, supporter (adj.) attached, sticking to

(v.) to ward off attack from; guard against assault or injury

(v.) to make, manufacture; to make up, invent

(n.) food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose

(n.) a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or fractions (v.) to bring to such a standstill

(n.) a difficult and perplexing situation or problem

(v.) to make a mess of; muddle through; to get by (n.) a hopeless mess

(n.) a split, break, breach

(n.) failure to take proper care in doing something

(adj.) stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind

(adj.) clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving

(adj.) average, ordinary, undistinguished

(adj.) lasting for a long time (n.) a plant that lives for many years

(adj.) very fat or overweight

(v.) to steal in small quantities

(v.) to bring to an end

(v.) to drive out by magic; to dispose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive

(v.) to stop proceedings temporarily; move to another place

(n.) a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense (v.) to make a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of

(n.) a citizen of another country (adj.) foreign, strange

(n.) an extremely poor person

(v.) to rob a (place) using violence, especially in wartime

(adj.) commonplace; overused, stale

(adj.) not genuine, not true, not valid

(adj.) having a pleasing appearance

(adj.) firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back

(adj.) famous, outstanding, distinguished, projecting

(adj.) not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable

(adj.) careful, cautious

(adj.) loose in one's morals or behavior

(adj.) angry

(adj.) bringing in money; profitable

(adj.) resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent

(adj.) brief and to the point

(adj.) difficult or impossible to read

(v.) to make fun of rudely or unkindly (n.) a rude remark of derision

(adj.) having a great deal of money; wealthy

(v.) to spread or scatter freely or widely (adj.) wordy, long-

(n.) the quality of being coherent and intelligible; the quality of transparency or purity

(v.) to tease; torment by teasing

(v.) to conquer by force, bring under complete control

(v.) to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly

(n.) the process of driving or forcing out

(v.) to make shorter

(n.) scattered fragments, wreckage

(v.) to make up for; to repay for services

(adj.) overly neat, precise, proper, or formal; prudish

(adj.) hard to do, requiring much effort

(adj.) occurring or published after death

(v.) to free from tangles or complications

(v.) to take the place of, supersede

(v.) to make up for

(n.) a lack of government and law; confusion

(n.) approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase (v.) to get at, obtain

(adj.) determined in advance by destiny or fortune

(adj.) favorable; fortunate

(adj.) poor, in a state of poverty; depleted

(adj.) very brave, fearless, unshakable

(adj.) not having life; without energy or spirit

(adj.) sad; dreary

(v.) to scold; find fault with (n.) a rebuke

(adj.) having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable

(adj.) bending readily; easily influenced

(adj.) not running or flowing; foul from standing still; inactive sluggish, dull

(adj.) not letting light through; not clear or lucid; dense, stupid

(v.) to strengthen, build up

(adj.) false, counterfeit

(v.) to speak evil of, slander (n.) evil

(adj.) noisy, unruly, disorderly

(n.) a large city; the chief city of an area

(v.) to force, drive forward

(adj.) causing sorrow or pain; serious

(n.) a vast number (as of people); a throng

(n.) work that is hard and tiresome

(n.) a small room or compartment

(adj.) frank, sincere; impartial, unposed

(v.) to elevate; to increase in intensity