A-Word List Flashcards
Abrogate
(V)-repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement).
-evade (a responsibility or duty).
Accretion
(N)-the process of growth or increase, typically by the gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter.
Accoutrement
(N)-additional items of dress or equipment, or other items carrier or worn by a person or used for a particular activity.
Acerbic
(Adj)-(especially of a comment or style of speaking) sharp and forthright.
Acrimonious
(Adj)-angry and bitter.
Ad hoc
(Adv)-when necessary or needed.
(Adj)-created or done for a particular purpose as necessary.
Adroitly
(Adv)-in a clever or skillful way.
Affectation
(N)-behavior, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress.
(N)- a studied display of real or pretended feeling.
Agora
(N)-(in Ancient Greek) a public open space user for assemblies and markets.
Alacrity
(N)-brisk and cheerful readiness.
Albatross
(N)-a very large oceanic bird related to the shearwaters, with long narrow wings.
(Adj)- Burden.
Aleatory
(Adj)-depending on the throw of the dice or on chance; random.
Alliteration
(N)-the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Amalgam
(N)-a mixture or blend.
Ambrosia
(N)-the food of the gods.
Amelioration
(N)-the act of making something better; improvement.
Amity
(N)-a friendly relationship.
Anachronistic
(Adj)-belonging to a period other than that being portrayed.
Analogous
(Adj)-comparable in certain respects, typically in a way that makes clearer the nature of the things compared.
Anathema
(N)-a person or thing detested or loathed.
a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction.
a formal ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication.
any imprecation of divine punishment.
a curse; execration.
(Adj)