All terms in this list:

absolve: pardon (an offense)

abrogate: abolish

abstinence: restraint from eating and drinking

accord: Agreement.

accommodate: oblige or help someone; adjust or bring into harmony; adapt.

accost: To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.

acute: i) quickly perceptive ii) keen iii) brief and severe

adulation: Flattery; fulsome praise.

advert: To call attention, refer; construed with to.

affliction: a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony; cause of distress

affront: To insult intentionally, especially openly.

aggregate: To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. The aggregated soil.

agog: Highly excited. Anxious, eager, impatient.

alleviate: To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.

allude: To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion

alcove: A small recessed area set off from a larger room.

alimentary: nourishing; nutritious

alimony: A court-enforced allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person.

allay: To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.

allure: To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.

ameliorate: To make better, to improve; to heal; to solve a problem.