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- assuage
- make smth (pain, desire) less
- assumption
- smth supposed but not proved
- assurance
- firm statement that something is certainly true; promise or pledge; certainty; confidence in one's own ability; self-confidence
- asterisk
- the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
- asteroid
- small planet
- astigmatism
- eye defect which prevents proper focus
- astral
- relating to the stars
- astringent
- substance that shrinks
- astute
- clever; quick at seeing to get an advantage
- astronomical
- enormously large or extensive
- asunder
- into parts; apart
- asylum
- place of refuge or shelter; protection (religious or political)
- asymmetric
- not identical on both sides of a dividing central line
- atavism
- resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; reversion to an earlier type; throwback
- atheistic
- denying the existence of God
- athwart
- across; in opposition
- atone
- make amends for; pay for
- atonement
- repayment; death of Jesus
- atrocity
- brutal deed
- atrophy
- wasting away
- attentive
- alert and watchful; listening carefully; paying attention; considerate; thoughtful; politely helpful
- attenuate
- make thin. weaken, enervate
- attest
- testify; bear witness
- attire
- clothe
- attribute
- essential quality
- attrition
- rubbing away by friction; gradual decrease in numbers or strength; reduction in the work force without firing employees; wearing away of opposition by means of harassment
- attune
- bring into harmony
- atypical
- not normal
- audacious
- daring, foolishly bold, impudent
- audit
- examination of accounts of a business; official examination
- augment
- increase; add to
- augury
- omen, sign
- august
- majestic, venerable
- aureole
- sun's corona; halo; bright circle of light
- aurora
- pertaining to the aurora borealis
- auspice
- protection or support, patronage
- auspicious
- favorable, successful, prosperous
- austere
- severely moral and strict; simple and plain
- authenticate
- prove genuine
- authoritarian
- subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another's will
- authoritative
- having the weight of authority; regarded as providing knowledge that can be trusted; reliable; peremptory and dictatorial
- autocratic
- having absolute unchecked power; dictatorial
- automaton
- mechanism that imitates actions of humans; machine that works by itself
- autonomous
- self-governing
- autopsy
- examination of a dead body; postmortem
- auxiliary
- helping, supporting
- avalanche
- great mass of falling snow and ice
- avant-garde
- group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods