Vocabulary:

This is an assignment to help me study for my ACT's

1.Abdicate v.
to step down from a position of power

2. Abridge v.
to shorten, condense, or lesson in length

3.Absolve v.
to forgive or free blame

4. abysmal adj.
extremely wretched, bottomless

5.Acquiesce v.
to comply passively, to give in

6. Advocate v.
to support or be in favor of

7. Aesthetic adj.
concerned with or appreciative of beauty

8. Affinity n.
sympathy, attraction, kinship

9. Agenda n.
program, things to be done

10. Aggrandize v.
to make great

11. Allusion n.
an indirect reference

12. Altruistic adj.
unselfish concern with the welfare of others

13. Amnesty n.
an official pardon for a group of people who violate the law

14. Animosity n. ill will, active dislike

15. Anomalous adj.
irregular, abnormal, unusual