Vocab Multiple Choice
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Choose the correct definition for the words listed below:
A.
abase
- wretched, pitiful
- freedom from blame, guilt, sin
- to humiliate, degrade
- to abolish, usually by authority
B.
consensus
- agreement, especially in opinion
- to reduce, lessen
- hard to comprehend
- going beyond what is reasonable & proper
C.
abduct
- to destroy or kill a large portion of something
- to kidnap, take by force
- to reject, renounce
- agreement, especially in opinion
D.
disinterested
- to lower in grade or position
- to aid, help, encourage
- not motivated by personal interest or selfish motives
- to go around; to catch in a trap; to gain superiority
E.
exorbitant
- to humiliate, degrade
- to agree
- going beyond what is reasonable and proper
- having an evil disposition towards others
F.
abate
- to give up on an incomplete project or effort
- to reduce, lessen
- going beyond what is reasonable and proper
- having an evil disposition towards others
G.
decimate
- to lower in grade or position
- to give up on an incomplete project or effort
- to destroy or kill a large portion of something
- going before in time
H.
controversy
- to freely choose not to commit an action
- to stress, highlight
- agreement, especially in opinion
- a discussion of a question in which opposing views clash
I.
malevolent
- to hate, detest
- having an evil disposition towards others
- hard to comprehend
- denial of comfort to oneself
J.
Aberration
- something that differs from the norm
- denial of comfort to oneself
- to humiliate, degrade
- to sneak away and hide
K.
precursor
- a forerunner, a harbinger, one who or that which goes before
- hard to comprehend
- to sneak away and hide
- to kidnap, take by force
L.
abject
- to agree
- wretched, pitiful
- to cut down, shorten; shortened
- denial of comfort to oneself
M.
abjure
- to humiliate, degrade
- to reject, renounce
- wretched, pitiful
- to freely choose not to commit an action
N.
abnegation
- to reject, renounce
- to cut down, shorten; shortened
- to kidnap, take by force
- denial of comfort to oneself