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WS quick quiz 6-10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| allusion | An indirect reference (often to a literary work); a hint |
| aloof | Uninvolved; standing off; keeping ones distance |
| altruism | Selflessness; generosity; devotion to the interests of others |
| ambience | Atmosphere; mood; feeling |
| ambiguous | Unclear in meaning; confusing; capable of being interpreted in different ways |
| ambivalent | Undecided; neutral; wishy-washy |
| ameliorate | To make better or more tolerable |
| amenable | Obedient; willing to give in to the wishes of another; agreeable |
| amenity | Pleasantness; attractive or comfortable feature |
| amiable | Friendly; agreeable |
| amnesty | An official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy |
| amoral | Lacking a sense of right and wrong; neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral; without moral feelings |
| amorous | Feeling loving, especially in a sexual sense; in love relating to love |
| amorphous | Shapeless; without a regular or stable shape; bloblike |
| anachronism | Something out of place in time or history; an incongruity |
| analogy | A comparison of one thing to another; similarity |
| anarchy | Absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder |
| anecdote | A short account of a humorous or revealing incident |
| anguish | Agonizing physical or mental pain |
| animosity | Resentment; hostility; ill will |
| anomaly | An aberration; an irregularity; a deviation |
| antecedent | Someone or something that went before; something that provides a model for something that came after it |
| antipathy | Firm dislike; a dislike (↔sympathy) |
| antithesis | The direct opposite |
| apartheid | The abhorrent policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Repubic of South Africa |
| apathy | Lack of interest; lack of feeling |
| aphorism | A brief, often witty saying; a proverb |
| apocalypse | A prophetic revelation, especially one concerning the end of the world |
| apocryphal | Of dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurious |
| apotheosis | Elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something |
| appease | To soothe; to pacify by giving in to |
| appreciate | To increase in value |
| apprehensive | Worried; anxious |
| approbation | Approval; praise |
| appropriate | To take without permission; to set aside for a particular use |
| aptitude | Capacity for learning; natural ability |
| arbiter | One who decides; a judge |
| arbitrary | Random; capricious |
| arcane | Mysterious; known only to a select few |
| archaic | Extremely old; ancient; outdated |
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