High School Vocabulary Lesson 1

Match the following

• quickness of intellectual insight

• accost

• to hate or detest

• abhor

• wretched or pitiful

• abject

• to approach and speak to someone boldly and aggressively

• acumen

Match the following

• to end, usually by authority

• acclaim

• a place of residence or a home

• aesthetic

• artistic or related to one's sense of beauty

• abrogate

• high praise

• abode

Match the following

• to agree to a demand or request

• aberration

• an abnormality, irregularity, or deviation

• abstruse

• difficult to understand

• accede

Match the following

• accordingly

• in a way that is appropriate; properly

• albeit

• even though; although

• accretion

• a slow growth in size or amount

quickness of intellectual insight (accede, accost, acumen, accretion)

a slow growth in size or amount (accede, accost, acumen, accretion)

to agree to a demand or request (accede, accost, acumen, accretion)

to approach and speak to someone boldly and aggressively (accede, accost, acumen, accretion)

difficult to understand (abhor, aesthetic, abrogate, abstruse)

to hate or detest (abhor, aesthetic, abrogate, abstruse)