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Abate
To bring down or reduce to a lower state, number, degree or estimation.
Abdicate
To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.
Aberrant
Differing from the norm, from the expected type; abnormal, anomalous.
Abeyance
Suspension; temporary suppression.
Abject
Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
Abjure
To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate.
Abscission
The act or process of cutting off.
Abscond
To depart secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution :
Abstinence
1.The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire. 2. The giving up of certain pleasure
Abysmal
Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound; fathomless; immeasurable.
Accrue
To increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
adamant
resistant to reason; determined; inflexible; unshakeable; unyielding
adjunct
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity
Admonish
To counsel against wrong practices; to caution or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; — followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause.
Aesthetic
Concerned with beauty, artistic impact, or appearance.
Affected
Pretentious, phony
Aggrandize
To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; applied to persons, countries, etc.
Alacrity
eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm
Allay
To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
Alleviate
To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.
Allure
The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
Ambivalence
A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness.
Ambrosia
Something delicious; the food for the gods
ameliorate
To make better, to improve; to heal; to solve a problem.
Amenable
Willing to comply with; agreeable.
Amenity
A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant.
Amulet
A charm or ornament worn for protection against evil.
Anachronism
A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object.
Analgesic
Any medicine, such as aspirin, that reduces pain.
Analogous
Comparable
Anarchy
The state of a society being without authoritarians or a governing body.
Anodyne
Any medicine or other agent that relieves pain.
Anomalous
deviating from the normal; aberrant or abnormal
Antecedent
Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
Antediluvian
ancient or antiquated; old; prehistoric.
Antipathy
Dislike; hostility
Apathy
Complete lack of emotion or motivation about a person, activity, or object; depression; lack of interest or enthusiasm; disinterest.
Apex
The highest point of something.
Apogee
The point in an orbit around the Earth that is most distant from the Earth.
Apothegm
Alternative spelling of apophthegm.
apophthegm
A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
Appease
To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
Appellation
A name, title, or designation.
Apposite
appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit
Apprise
To notify, or to make aware; to inform.
Approbation
The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval, sanction, commendation or official recognition
Appropriate
Confiscate; to take possession for one's own use
Apropos
Relevant
Arabesque
An elaborate design of intertwined floral figures or complex geometrical patterns. This ornamental design is mainly used in Islamic Art and architecture
Ardor
great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion
Arduous
Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance; laborious, extremely difficult;
Argot
The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers; a jargon.
Artifact
An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
Artless
Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit; natural; guileless
Ascetic
One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.
Asperity
Something that is harsh and hard to endure; Severity; irritability
Aspersion
An attack on somebody's reputation or good name; False rumor; slander
Assiduous
Hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.
Assuage
To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).; to pacify or soothe
Astringent
Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic; harsh; sever
Asylum
The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
Atavism
The reappearance of an ancestral characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence.
Attenuate
To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree; to weaken
Audacious
Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring; impudent
Austere
Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy
Avarice
Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
Aver
To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner.
Avocation
A hobby or recreational or leisure pursuit.
Avuncular
In the manner of an uncle, pertaining to an uncle; Uncle like; kind
Axiomatic
Of or pertaining to an axiom; taken for granted
Bacchanalian
Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
Banal
Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.
Banter
Good humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
Bard
A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
bawdy
Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
Beatify
To make blissful; to sanctify; to bless
Bedizen
To ornament something in showy, tasteless, or gaudy finery; to dress in vulgar
behemoth
A great and mighty beast described in Job 40:15-24 used to illustrate God's mightiness.
Belie
To give a false representation of something.
Beneficent
Given to acts that are kind, charitable, philanthropic or beneficial.