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- abate
- v. to lessen in intensity or degree
- aberrant
- adj. deviating from the norm
- abjure
- v. to renounce or reject solumnly; to recant; to avoid
- abrogate
- v. to abolish or annul by authority; put down
- abscission
- n. act of cutting off or removing
- abscond
- v. to depart clandestinely; to steal away and hide
- abstain
- v. to refrain from an activity
- accolade
- n. an expression of praise; an award
- accretion
- n. growth, increase by successive addition; building up
- acerbic
- adj. having a sour or bitter taste or character
- acumen
- n. quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight
- admonish
- v. to reprove; to express warning or dissapproval
- adroit
- adj. adept, dexterous
- adulation
- n. excessive praise; intense adoration
- adulterate
- v. to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
- adumbrate
- v. to foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest, or outline sketchily
- advocate
- v. to argue for or support a cause
- aesthetic
- adj. dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful
- aggrandize
- v. to increase in intensity, power, or prestige; to make appear greater
- alacrity
- n. eager and enthusiastic willingness
- alchemy
- n. a magical or wonderful transformation
- alloy
- v. to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior
- amalgamate
- v. to combine several elements into a whole
- ambiguity
- n. uncertainty in meaning
- ambivilance
- n. the quality of having opposing ideas or feelings
- ameliorate
- v. to make better or more tolerable
- amenable
- adj. agreeable; responsive to suggestion
- anachronism
- n. something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context.
- anathema
- n. a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
- anodyne
- adj. soothing
- anomaly
- n. deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality
- antagonize
- v. to irritate or cause hostility
- antipathy
- n. aversion, dislike
- antithetical
- adj. diametrically opposed, as in antithesis
- apathy
- n. lack of interest or feeling
- apocryphal
- adj. of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious
- apogee
- n. farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
- apostate
- n. one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause
- apotheosis
- n. deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example
- apposite
- adj. appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos
- apprise
- v. give notice to, inform
- approbation
- n. an expression of approval or praise
- appropriate
- v. to take for one's own use, confiscate
- arabesque
- n. complex, ornate design
- arcane
- adj. mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable only to initiates
- archaic
- adj. outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time
- arduous
- adj. strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort
- arrant
- adj. impudent; in every way, being completely such, bare-faced, utter
- arrest
- v. to suspend; to engage
- articulate
- v. to enunciate or pronounce clearly; to express oneself clearly
- artless
- adj. completely without guile; natural, without artificiality
- ascetic
- n. one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion
- asperity
- n. severity, rigor; roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability
- aspersion
- n. an act of defamation or maligning
- assiduous
- adj. diligent, hard-working
- assuage
- v. to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
- astringent
- adj. having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe
- attenuate
- v. to rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen
- audacious
- adj. daring or fearless; recklessly bold
- augury
- n. omen, portent, the reading of omens
- august
- adj. majestic, venerable
- auspice
- n. protection or support, patronage
- auspicious
- adj. favorable, propitious, successful, prosperous
- austere
- adj. without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic
- avarice
- n. greed, especially for wealth
- aver
- v. to state as fact; to confirm or support
- axiom
- n. a universally recognized principle; a generally accepted or common saying