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most of the vocabulary words start with A

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Definition
philanthropic   Something given to help others is philanthropic.  
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ideal   An ideal is a model of something perfect or without equal.  
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aristocratic   belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy  
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abase   To abase something or someone is to humiliate them  
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abhor   If you abhor something, it gives you a feeling of complete hatred  
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ascetic   pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline  
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abject   most unfortunate or miserable  
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accentuate   to stress, single out as important  
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acme   the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development  
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acquiesce   to agree or express agreement  
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aggrandize   add details to  
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acrimonious   marked by strong resentment or cynicism  
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antagonism   an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility  
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anthropomorphic   suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things  
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anecdote   short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)  
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antipathy   a feeling of intense dislike  
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arbitrary   based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice  
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anachronism   something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred  
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assimilation   the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another  
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augury   an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come  
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Artifice   a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)  
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