English 11 Unit 1 Vocabulary Final

To completely do away with

• Abolish

• Crucial

• Disparage

• Mediate

Acquiesce

• Accept something reluctantly but without protest

• Low in spirits, depressed

• To approve and sanction formally

• To formally request

Affluent

• Having an abundance of goods or riches

• Important or essential

• Low in spirits, depressed

• Marked by forceful and fluent expression

A governing body or upper class usually made up of a hereditary nobility

• Aristocracy

• Delegate

• Egalitarian

• Tyranny

Autonomous

• Existing or capable of existing independently

• Important or essential

• A ruler with absolute power and authority; usually brutal or oppressive

• Predicting or foreshadowing evil

Marked by or disposed to doing good

• Benevolent

• Delegate

• Loathsome

• Prudence

Conducive

• Tending to promote or assist

• Low in spirits, depressed

• Disgusting

• Oppressive power

To make or declare sacred

• Consecrate

• Disparage

• Endow

• Tyranny

Countenance

• The face as an indication of mood, emotion, or character

• Low in spirits, depressed

• To provide with something freely or naturally

• The fixed morally binding customs of a particular group

A usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement

• Covenant

• Inaugurate

• Ratified

• Mediate