Advanced Vocabulary Lists and Exercises

Advanced Vocabulary List 4 (beta version)

abet: Max is in prison for aiding and abetting Mary with her bank robbery.
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accumulate: Debts can easily and rapidly accumulate. Be careful with your credit cards.
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agitate: To make someone nervous or troubled; to arouse concern.
The peaceful crowd became agitated when the police showed up in full riot gear.
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alert: The dog was very alert. He guarded his bone collection with great diligence.
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alluring: attractive, seductive, inviting
The salary was very alluring, but Max decided not to take the job.
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ample: Plentiful; enough or more than enough.
There is but one language spoken through all Japan; but that so ample, and so full of variety, that, in effect, it may be said to contain many tongues. - The Works of John Dryden
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baffle: To perplex or confuse.
I am baffled by the instructions on the tax forms.
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bicker: To argue about unimportant matters.
The two old men began to bicker, and I wouldn2t doubt they2d have come to blows had not Bayard stepped between them. - Virginity
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blame: responsibility for something bad
Politicians are quick to assign blame, but they refuse to accept it.
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blend: The lines are pretty enough, and may be described as a blend of Tom Moore and Rogers. - Crabbe
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