A's Flashcards
Abscond
To leave suddenly and secretly, particularly to avoid persecution or capture
Abeyance
Temporary suspension or inactivity
Advocate
To speak in favor of
Aggrandize
To make greater or exaggerate
Aggregate
To combine or form a collection or a sum; amounting to a whole or total
Alacrity
Willingness or cheerful eagerness
Alleviate
To lessen or make easier to endure
Amalgam
A mixture of different elements or concepts
Ambivalence
Uncertainty or inability to make a choice because of simultaneous desire or repulsion
Ameliorate
To improve or make more satisfying
Amorphous
Having no definite form, vague, or unorganized
Anachronism
An error in chronology or a thing that belongs in another era or time
Anomalous
Usual or not consistent with familiar patterns
Antipathy
Habitual will dislike or natural aversion
Appease
To satisfy or yield in an affable way
Arbitrate
To manage and judge a dispute
Artless
Simple, absence of deceit, natural, or poorly made
Ascetic
Someone who practices self-mortification for religious reasons, or someone who lives a chaste and simple life
Assiduous
Constant, industrious, or working diligently at a job
Assuage
To lessen, make easier, or soothe
Audacious
Recklessly bold and daring
Austere
Strict, self-disciplined, or severely simple or rough
Autonomous
Independent, regarding a self-governing state or organization
