Study skills

week of Nov 11

writing original sentences on Tuesday for all words

Quiz on Thursday!!

  1. abjure
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
  2. abrogate
    revoke formally
  3. abstemious
    marked by temperance in indulgence
  4. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  5. antebellum
    belonging to a period before a war
  6. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  7. belie
    be in contradiction with
  8. bellicose
    having or showing a ready disposition to fight
  9. bowdlerize
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  10. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone