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- adroit
- skillful
- adulation
- flattery; admiration that is more than is necessary or deserved
- adulteration
- making impure, poorer in quality
- advent
- arrival
- adventitious
- accidental; casual
- adversary
- opponent; enemy
- adverse
- unfavorable; hostile
- adversity
- great hardship or affliction; misfortune; calamitous event
- advert
- refer
- advocacy
- support; active pleading on behalf of someone or something
- advocate
- speak in favor of; support (an idea or plan); urge; plead for
- aegis
- shield; protection; defense
- aerie
- nest of a large bird of prey
- aesthetic
- artistic; dealing with or capable off appreciation of the beautiful
- affable
- polite and friendly
- affected
- artificial; pretended
- affidavit
- written statement made under oath (for use as proof in a court of law)
- affiliation
- joining; associating with
- affinity
- close connection, relationship
- affirmation
- positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath
- affliction
- state of distress; trial; cause of distress or suffering
- affluence
- abundance; wealth
- affront
- insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect
- afterlife
- life after death; later part of one's life
- agape
- openmouthed
- agenda
- items of business at a meeting
- agglomeration
- collection; heap
- aggrandize
- make greater; increase in power, wealth, rank, or honor
- aggravate
- make worse; irritate
- aggregate
- sum; total
- aghast
- horrified
- agile
- active, quick-moving
- agility
- nimbleness; ability to move quickly
- agitate
- stir up; disturb
- agnostic
- one who is skeptical of the existence or know ability of a god or any ultimate reality
- agog
- eager/excited
- agrarian
- pertaining to land or its cultivation
- ail
- trouble; be ill
- airy
- of air; high in the air; lofty; immaterial; unreal
- alacrity
- eager and cheerful readiness
- albeit
- although
- alchemy
- medieval chemistry
- alcove
- recess/partially enclosed place
- alias
- an assumed name esp. by a criminal (usually to mislead people)
- alienate
- estrange
- alimentary
- supplying nourishment
- alimony
- payments made regularly to an ex-spouse after divorce
- allay
- calm; pacify
- allege
- state without proof
- allegiance
- duty, support, loyalty
- allegory
- story, play, or picture in which characters are used as symbols; fable