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Back to Home Back to Academic English 8 ** Unit 2 Vocabulary Words ** 1. __Accord__- (n.) mutual agreement; harmony; an informal agreement, as between nations

2. __Accurate__- (adj.) careful and exact; free from errors; adhering closely to a standard

3. __Acquaintance__- (n). knowledge (of something) obtained from personal experience or study; a person who one knows slightly

4. __Agent__- (n.) a person or thing that brings about a certain result; a force or substance that produces an effect; A person, firm, etc. authorized to act for another; a representative of a government agency

5. __Clarity__ (n.) the quality or condition of being clear

6. __Communion__- (n). a sharing of one’s thoughts and emotions; a close relationship

7. __Expression__ (n.) a putting into words; a particular word or phrase; a showing of feeling or character; a look, Intonation, etc. that shows meaning or feeling

8. __Gratitude__ (n). a feeling of thankful appreciation

9. __Grave__ (adj.) solemn; important, weighty; serious, threatening; dignified

10. __Instinctive__ (adj.) of, or having the nature of, an inborn quality, talent, or tendency

11. __Integrity__- (n). the condition of being complete; wholeness; strong, stable condition; uprightness, honesty

12. __Intimate__ (adj.) very close; familiar; private or personal; suggesting privacy, romance

13. __Physical__ (adj.) of nature and all matter, natural; of, or produced by the forces of physics; of or concerned with the body as opposed to the mind

14. Possess(v.) to own; have as a characteristic, quality

15. __Purity__ (n). the quality or condition of being pure; cleanness; clearness; innocence or chastity

16. __Quality__ (n). any of the features that make something what it is; characteristic; the degree of excellence that a thing possesses; superiority

17. Responsibility (n). duty; obligation; a person or thing that one is taking care or in charge of

18. __Simplicity__ (n). the fact of not being complicated, not difficult; the condition of being plain, not fancy; a Sincere or natural quality

19. __Sufficient__ (adj.) as much is as needed; enough

20. __Treacherous__ (adj.) seemingly safe, but not really so; not loyal; betraying or likely to betray