A's Flashcards

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Abscond

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To leave suddenly and secretly, particularly to avoid persecution or capture

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Abeyance

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Temporary suspension or inactivity

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Advocate

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To speak in favor of

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Aggrandize

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To make greater or exaggerate

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Aggregate

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To combine or form a collection or a sum; amounting to a whole or total

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Alacrity

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Willingness or cheerful eagerness

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Alleviate

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To lessen or make easier to endure

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Amalgam

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A mixture of different elements or concepts

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Ambivalence

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Uncertainty or inability to make a choice because of simultaneous desire or repulsion

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Ameliorate

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To improve or make more satisfying

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Amorphous

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Having no definite form, vague, or unorganized

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Anachronism

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An error in chronology or a thing that belongs in another era or time

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Anomalous

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Usual or not consistent with familiar patterns

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Antipathy

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Habitual will dislike or natural aversion

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Appease

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To satisfy or yield in an affable way

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Arbitrate

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To manage and judge a dispute

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Artless

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Simple, absence of deceit, natural, or poorly made

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Ascetic

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Someone who practices self-mortification for religious reasons, or someone who lives a chaste and simple life

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Assiduous

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Constant, industrious, or working diligently at a job

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Assuage

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To lessen, make easier, or soothe

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Audacious

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Recklessly bold and daring

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Austere

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Strict, self-disciplined, or severely simple or rough

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Autonomous

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Independent, regarding a self-governing state or organization