Vocabulary Root: AB

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Away From or Separation

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Leave somebody or something behind; leave a place because of danger; stop something in progress.

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• When it’s sunny outside and there are blue skies, I just want to abandon all my responsibilities to go to the beach.

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Forms: (verb) abandon -ed, -s, -ing

(adjective) abandoned

(noun) abandonment

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To give up a high office formally or officially; to fail to fulfill a duty or responsibility.

If you say that someone has abdicated responsibility for something, you disapprove of them because they have refused to accept responsibility for it any longer.

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• After the accident, the company seems to have abdicated all responsibility for the damage, so the patient will have to pay for her injuries herself.

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Forms: (verb) abdicate -d, -s, -ing

To carry off or lead away (a person) illegally and in secret or by force; kidnap.

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Forms: (verb) abduct -s, -ed, -ing

(noun) abduction; abductor

• The man abducted the children from their home in California, taking them to Canada in contempt of court.

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To state publicly or officially that somebody is not guilty, to forgive them; to release somebody from a requirement. �If a report or investigation absolves someone of blame or responsibility, it formally states that he or she is not guilty or is not to blame.

• When they couldn’t find any evidence against her, the court absolved her of guilt in the robbery.

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Forms: (verb) absolve -d, -s, -ing

Not to vote for or against a proposal when a vote is held-- or -- to choose not to do something.

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If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.

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Forms: (verb) abstain -ed, -s, -ing

• I did not like either of the candidates that were running for class president, so I decided to abstain from voting.

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To behave in a way so as to belittle or humiliate (someone).

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(verb) abase -d, -ing

(noun) abasement

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• The boy’s girlfriend found that her boyfriend’s mother was fond of humiliating her, as a way to abase her (the girlfriend) in her son’s eyes.

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not self-indulgent, especially when eating and drinking.

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Forms:

(adverb) -ly

(noun) abstemiousness

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• Since they are abstemious diners, they don’t find the appeal of all-you-can-eat buffets.

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Abstemious

To regard with disgust and hatred; loathe.

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Forms:

(verb) abhor -s, -ing, -ed

(noun) abhorrer

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• I particularly abhor the sloppiness that even literate people exhibit when writing an email message.
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TO CHANGE OR MOVE

• To carry, move, or convey from one place to another

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Forms:

(noun) transportation, transporter

(verb) transport -s, -ed, -ing

• When my friend Aimee and her husband moved from Huntington Beach to Minnesota, they hired a moving company to transport their belongings.

Synonyms:

carry, move, convey

Describes a situation that lasts only a short time.

Transients are people who stay in a place for only a short time and then move somewhere else.

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Forms:

(noun) transient (a transient is a person)

(adjective) transient (the transient guest)

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• Many of the transient workers returned home after the harvest.

Synonyms:

temporary, passing

• To break a law, command or moral code; to go beyond a limit or boundary

Forms:

(noun) transgression, transgressor

(verb) transgress -es, -ing, -ed

• His transgression was so serious he

was immediately expelled from school and

required to appear in court.

Synonyms:

misbehave, disobey

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• going beyond ordinary limits; exceeding superior or supreme.

Forms:

(verb) transcend -s, -ed, -ing,

(adjective) transcendent

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• Michael Phelps displayed his transcendent swimming ability when he won eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Synonyms:

incomparable, matchless, unrivaled

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• Actual definition: a refusal to behave differently or to change their attitude to something

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Forms:

(adjective) intransigent

(adverb) intransigently

• The intransigent judge would not overturn his ruling because he believed he was always correct.

Synonyms:

stubborn, inflexible

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• To send to a recipient or destination; to communicate information; to pass or spread
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(verb) transmit -s, -ed, -ing

(adjective) (non)transmittable

(noun) transmitter

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• If you have a cold and cough by covering up your mouth with your hand, then you touch someone, you can transmit your cold germs to them.

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Synonyms:

carry, move, convey

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• To change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another

If something transmutes or is transmuted into a different form, it is changed into that form.

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Forms:

(verb) transmute -s, -ed, -ing

(adjective) transmutable

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• The formal criminal had transmuted into a national hero.

Synonyms:

change, transform

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