4000 Duolingo Vocabulary List

n. pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions
This spacious travel amenity kit lets you bring all the comforts of home.

ad. in the middle of; among; surrounded by
He and other leaders are more optimistic than eight years ago when Easley began his term amid a recession.

n. military stores or provisions; articles used in weapons, as powder, balls, shot, shells
I will carry these two rifles myself; the ammunition is all there except that bag in the corner.

n. partial or total loss of memory, usually resulting from shock or illness
Selective amnesia is a politically valuable trait.

n. total of two or more quantities; aggregate; sum
The amount of money sent home by migrant workers to their families in Latin America has reached more than $62 billion.

a. more than enough in size or scope or capacity; relatively large
They insist that food is being provided to the Palestinians in ample supplies and that the only way to weaken Hamas is to maintain the blockade.

n. addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
A few remarks added in amplification and defense.

v. broaden or clarify by expanding; intensify; make larger or more powerful; increase
Charlie Brown tried to amplify his remarks, but jeers from the audience drowned him out.

v. occupy in an agreeable, pleasing, or entertaining fashion; cause laughter or be funny; delude or deceive
I've been using this anecdote to amuse my civilian friends for years!

a. comparable; similar or alike
She called our attention to the things done in an analogous situation and recommended that we do the same.

n. the similarity in some respects; comparison based on similarity
This analogy is almost always noted without further comment, although it may be taken further.

v. diagnose; study, or examine something in detail to discover more about it
Historians follow a few basic rules to help them analyze primary sources.

n. a person who seeks to overturn established government; advocate of abolishing authority
Denying she was an anarchist, Katya maintained she wished only to make changes in our government, not to destroy it entirely.

n. detailed analysis;  the scientific study of the body and how its parts are arranged
You have to know something about anatomy if you want to draw the human body well.

n. forefather; forebear; forerunner or predecessor
He said it was a very old name in that neighborhood, that the house's ancestor was wealthy.

a. inherited or inheritable by established rules
On the key issue of land rights, it called for a mechanism to study ancestral links to the land.

n. family descent; series or line of ancestors; lineage
David can trace his ancestry as far back as the seventeenth century when one was a court trumpeter somewhere in Germany.

v. secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place; narrate or coordinate
We set the post in concrete to anchor it in place.

a. having the character of an anecdote; of a short story of any interesting or humorous incidents
Below I will investigate the reasons why anecdotal evidence is unreliable and unacceptable evidence of scientific claims.

a. having life or vigor or spirit; filled with activity; in the form of cartoon
On entering his room, I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men.