Vocabulary College Prep Advanced — Set 1: In Context flashcards
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Ms. Pratt read her neighbors' mail and spread cruel lies about the new family; her conduct so disgusted the building that she became ______, and no one would share an elevator with her.odiousFeelings & Attitudes
Conduct that earns hatred and disgust makes a person odious. Execrable can also mean deserving hatred, but it is said mostly of wretched quality, such as food or handwriting, or of a wicked act, rarely of a person; invidious describes unfair comparisons. -
Hamid, who once queued at midnight for every new issue, now leaves them unopened; rushed art and recycled plots have left him ______ with the heroes he adored as a boy.disenchantedFeelings & Attitudes
Losing admiration for something once loved, after seeing its faults, is being disenchanted. Jaundiced is a broad cynicism from experience, not a fall from admiring one thing, and it doesn't take with. -
Senator Hale's sudden ______, quitting the party he had led for decades to join its fiercest rival, stunned his loyal voters.apostasyThinking & Knowing
Abandoning a party and its beliefs is apostasy. A schism splits a whole group into sides, and a turncoat is the person who switches, not the act. -
The environmental group never recovered from the vote on the oil company's donation: half the members walked out to found a rival organization, and the ______ lasts to this day.schismSpeaking & Arguing
When one group breaks apart into hostile camps for good, that rupture is a schism. A fracas is a loud clash, with words or fists, that is soon over, not a permanent division.
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Warm water, plenty of sunlight and few predators make the shallow lagoon highly ______ to the survival of young fish.conduciveActions & Effort
Conditions that help bring about a result are conducive to it. Opportune describes a well-timed moment, not conditions that make an outcome likely. -
A pearl grows by slow ______, as the oyster coats a tiny irritant with layer after layer of shimmering nacre.accretionChange & Growth
Slow growth that comes from one coating settling over another is accretion. An agglomeration is a disorderly clump that forms as things pile into one place, not something built up layer by layer. -
Engineers promised the new sea wall would lessen any flood damage, yet the hurricane still brought ______ ruin to the harbor, as if the wall had never been built.unmitigatedSize & Amount
Ruin that the wall did nothing to lessen is unmitigated. Unadulterated means sheer or pure, with nothing mixed in; it says nothing about harm that should have been reduced. -
The guide felt no hatred or disgust at the tired group's plan and did not think it wicked, but leaving the injured hiker alone to reach the summit was ______: no conscience could accept it.unconscionableQuality & Judgment
An act too wrong for any conscience to accept is unconscionable, even when it stirs no hatred or disgust. Odious, said of a wrong, needs that hatred or disgust, and execrable a wickedness the guide did not see; imprudent means unwise, far too mild for a moral wrong. -
The king's ______ that every village must plant oaks for the navy came without warning or council, and no one dared object.fiatSociety & Power
When someone in charge decides alone and others must simply obey, the order is a fiat. A dictum puts a belief or general rule into words; it does not command anyone to plant trees. -
Hikers who reach the ______ can watch the muddy brown river and the clear green one flow side by side for a mile before their waters finally mix.confluenceNature & Time
The spot where one river runs into another is called a confluence. A wellspring is where a stream starts, not where two rivers join.
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