Advanced Vocabulary List 4
- abet
- To approve, encourage, and support (an action or a plan of action); urge and help on.
Max is in prison for aiding and abetting Mary with her bank robbery.
- accumulate
- To mount up; increase.
Debts can easily and rapidly accumulate. Be careful with your credit cards.
- agitate
- To make someone nervous or troubled; to arouse concern.
The peaceful crowd became agitated when the police showed up in full riot gear.
- alert
- Vigilantly attentive.
The dog was very alert. He guarded his bone collection with great diligence.
- alluring
- attractive, seductive, inviting.
The salary was very alluring, but Max decided not to take the job.
- ample
- Plentiful; enough or more than enough.
I just went grocery shopping, so we should have ample food for the rest of the week.
- baffle
- To perplex or confuse.
I am baffled by the instructions on the tax forms.
- bicker
- To argue about unimportant matters.
Max and Mary bicker constantly.
- blame
- responsibility for something bad
Politicians are quick to assign blame, but they refuse to accept it.
- blend
- To combine (varieties or grades) to obtain a mixture of a particular character, quality, or consistency.
Max blends protein powder with apple juice.
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