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| Word |
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| Definition |
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| Adulation |
flattery; high praise |
| Adulterate |
to corrupt or make impure |
| Advent |
arrival |
| Adventitious |
accidental; casual |
| Adversary |
an opponent; an enemy |
| Adverse |
unfavorable; hostile |
| Adversity |
poverty; misfortune |
| Advert |
to refer: to remark or comment |
| Advocacy |
act of supporting, pleading, or recommending |
| Advocate |
to urge; to speak in favor of |
| Aegis |
shield; defense |
| Aerie |
nook or bird nest built high in the air |
| Aesthetic |
artistic; pertaining to beauty or art |
| Affable |
approachable; friendly |
| Affected |
artificial; pretentious |
| Affidavit |
written statement made under oath |
| Affiliation |
act of joining; state of being associated |
| Affinity |
fondness; liking; similarity (kinship) |
| Affirmation |
positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath |
| Affix |
to attach or add on; to fasten |
| Affliction |
state of distress; cause of suffering |
| Affluence |
abundance; wealth |
| Affront |
to insult; to cause offense to |
| Agape |
open-mouthed |
| Agenda |
items of business at a meeting |
| Agglomeration |
process of collecting; a heap or cluster |
| Aggrandize |
to make larger or greater in power |
| Aggregate |
to gather; to accumulate |
| Aggressor |
an attacker |
| Aghast |
horrified |
| Agility |
moving quickly and easily: nimbleness; ability to think and draw conclusions quickly: intellectual acuity |
| Agitate |
to shake; to disturb |
| Agnostic |
one who is skeptical of the existence of a god |
| Agog |
eager; keen; full of excitement or interest |
| Agrarian |
pertaining to land or its cultivation |
| Alacrity |
cheerful promptness; eagerness |
| Alchemy |
medieval chemistry |
| Alcove |
nook; recess |
| Alias |
an assumed name; moniker |
| Alienate |
to separate; to make hostile |
| Alimentary |
providing nourishment |
| Alimony |
payments made to an ex-spouse after divorce |
| Allay |
to calm; to ease; to pacify |
| Allege |
to state without proof |
| Allegiance |
loyalty |
| Allegory |
story in which characters are used as symbols; fable; symbolic representation |
| Alleviate |
to relieve |
| Alliteration |
repetition of the beginning sounds of words |
| Allocate |
to assign |
| Alloy |
(N) a mixture of metals |
| Alloy |
(V) to mix; to make less pure; to lessen or to moderate |
| Allude |
to refer indirectly |
| Allure |
to entice by charm; to attract |
| Allusion |
an indirect reference |
| Alluvial |
pertaining to soil deposits left by running water |
| Aloof |
distant; apart; reserved |
| Aloft |
(adv) upward; (prep) on top of: above <The sailor climbed aloft into the rigging.> |
| Altercation |
a heated dispute |
| Altruistic |
generous; concerned for others |
| Amalgamate |
to combine; to unite in one body |
| Amass |
to collect |
| Amazon |
female warrior |
| Ambidextrous |
capable of using both hands equally well |
| Ambience or Ambiance |
environment; atmosphere |
| Ambiguous |
unclear or doubtful in meaning |
| Ambivalence |
the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotions; uncertainty |
| Amble |
to walk about in a leisurely manner: saunter |
| Ambrosia |
food of the gods |
| Ambulatory |
able to walk about (not bedridden); itinerant: traveling from place to place <an itinerant soldier> |
| Ameliorate |
to improve <Many social workers have attempted to ameliorate the conditions of people living in the slums.> |
| Amenable |
agreeable, cooperative |
| Amend |
to correct; to change, generally for the better |
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