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abase

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To lower in position estimation or the like degrade.

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abbess

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The lady superior of a nunnery.

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abbey

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The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.

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abbot

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The superior of a community of monks.

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abdicate

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To give up (royal power or the like).

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abdominal

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Of pertaining to or situated on the abdomen.

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abed

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In bed or on a bed

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aberration

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Deviation from a right customary or prescribed course.

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abet

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To aid promote or encourage the commission of (an offense).

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abeyance

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A state of suspension or temporary inaction.

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abhorrence

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The act of detesting extremely.

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abhorrent

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Very repugnant or hateful.

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abidance

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An abiding.

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abject

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Sunk to a low condition.

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abjure

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To recant renounce repudiate under oath.

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able-bodied

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Competent for physical service.

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ablution

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A washing or cleansing especially of the body.

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abnegate

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To renounce (a right or privilege).

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abnormal

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Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard.

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abominable

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Very hateful.

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abominate

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To hate violently.

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abomination

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A very detestable act or practice.

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aboriginal

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Primitive or unsophisticated.

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aborigines

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The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.

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aboveboard

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Without concealment fraud or trickery.

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abrade

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To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.

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abrasion

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That which is rubbed off.

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abridge

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To make shorter in words keeping the essential features leaning out minor particles.

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abridgment

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A condensed form as of a book or play.

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abrogate

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To abolish repeal.

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abrupt

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Beginning ending or changing suddenly or with a break.

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abscess

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A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.

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abscission

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The act of cutting off as in a surgical operation.

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abscond

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To depart suddenly and secretly as for the purpose of escaping arrest.

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absence

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The fact of not being present or available.

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absent-minded

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Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.

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absolution

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Forgiveness or passing over of offenses.

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absolve

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To free from sin or its penalties.

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absorb

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To drink in or suck up as a sponge absorbs water.

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absorption

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The act or process of absorbing.

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abstain

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To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).

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abstemious

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Characterized by self denial or abstinence as in the use of drink food.

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abstinence

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Self denial.

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abstruse

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Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.

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absurd

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Inconsistent with reason or common sense.

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abundant

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Plentiful.

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abusive

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Employing harsh words or ill treatment.

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abut

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To touch at the end or boundary line.

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abyss

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Bottomless gulf.

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academic

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Of or pertaining to an academy college or university.

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academician

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A member of an academy of literature art or science.

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academy

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Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught.

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accede

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To agree.

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accelerate

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To move faster.

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accept

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To take when offered.

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access

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A way of approach or entrance or passage.

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accessible

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Approachable.

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accession

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Induction or elevation as to dignity office or government.

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accessory

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A person or thing that aids the principal agent.

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acclaim

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To utter with a shout.

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accommodate

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To furnish something as a kindness or favor.

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accompaniment

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A subordinate part or parts enriching or supporting the leading part.

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accompanist

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One who or that which accompanies.

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accompany

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To go with or be associated with as a companion.

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accomplice

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An associate in wrong-doing.

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accomplish

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To bring to pass.

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accordion

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A portable free-reed musical instrument.

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accost

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To speak to.

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account

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A record or statement of receipts and expenditures or of business transactions.

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accouter

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To dress.

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accredit

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To give credit or authority to.

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accumulate

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To become greater in quantity or number.

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accuracy

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Exactness.

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accurate

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Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard.

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accursed

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Doomed to evil misery or misfortune.

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accusation

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A charge of crime misdemeanor or error.

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accusatory

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Of pertaining to or involving an accusation.

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accuse

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To charge with wrong doing misconduct or error.

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accustom

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To make familiar by use.

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acerbity

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Sourness with bitterness and astringency.

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acetate

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A salt of acetic acid.

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acetic

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Of pertaining to or of the nature of vinegar.

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ache

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To be in pain or distress.

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Achillean

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Invulnerable.

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achromatic

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Colorless

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acid

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A sour substance.

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acidify

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To change into acid.

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acknowledge

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To recognize or to admit the genuineness or validity of.

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acknowledgment

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Recognition.

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acme

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The highest point or summit.

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acoustic

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Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.

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acquaint

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To make familiar or conversant.

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acquiesce

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To comply or submit.

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acquiescence

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Passive consent.

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acquire

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To get as one’s own.

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acquisition

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Anything gained or made one’s own usually by effort or labor.

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acquit

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To free or clear as from accusation.

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acquittal

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A discharge from accusation by judicial action.

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acquittance

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Release or discharge from indebtedness

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acreage

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Quantity or extent of land

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acrid

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Harshly pungent or bitter.

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acrimonious

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Full of bitterness.

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acrimony

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Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.

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actionable

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Affording cause for instituting an action as trespass slanderous words.

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actuality

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Any reality.

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actuary

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An officer as of an insurance company who calculates and states the risks and premiums.

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actuate

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To move or incite to action.

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acumen

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Quickness of intellectual insight or discernment or keenness of discrimination.

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acute

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Having fine and penetrating discernment.

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adamant

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Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability.

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addendum

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Something added or to be added.

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addle

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To make inefficient or worthless or muddle.

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adduce

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To bring forward or name for consideration.

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adhere

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To stick fast or together.

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adherence

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Attachment.

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adherent

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Clinging or sticking fast.

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adhesion

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The state of being attached or joined.

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adieu inter. Good-by

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farewell.

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adjacency

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The state of being adjacent.

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adjacent

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That which is near or bordering upon.

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adjudge

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To award or bestow by formal decision.

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adjunct

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Something joined to or connected with another thing but holding a subordinate place.

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adjuration

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A vehement appeal.

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adjutant

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Auxiliary.

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administrator

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One who manages affairs of any kind.

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admissible

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Having the right or privilege of entry.

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admittance

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Entrance or the right or permission to enter.

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admonish

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To warn of a fault.

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admonition

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Gentle reproof.

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ado

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unnecessary activity or ceremony.

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adoration

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Profound devotion.

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adroit

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Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.

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adulterant

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An adulterating substance.

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adulterate

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To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.

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adumbrate

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To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.

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advent

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The coming or arrival as of any important change event state or personage.

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adverse

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Opposing or opposed.

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adversity

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Misfortune.

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advert

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To refer incidentally.

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advertiser

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One who advertises especially in newspapers.

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advisory

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Not mandatory.

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advocacy

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The act of pleading a cause.

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advocate

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One who pleads the cause of another as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.

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aerial

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Of pertaining to or like the air.

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aeronaut

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One who navigates the air a balloonist.

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aeronautics

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the art or practice of flying aircraft

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aerostat

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A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.

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aerostatics

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The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium pressure and mechanical properties.

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affable

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Easy to approach.

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affect

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To act upon

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affectation

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A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.

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affiliate

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Some auxiliary person or thing.

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affirmative

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Answering yes to a question at issue.

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affix

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To fasten.

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affluence

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A profuse or abundant supply of riches.

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affront

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An open insult or indignity.

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afire

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On fire literally or figuratively.

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afoot

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In progress.

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aforesaid

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Said in a preceding part or before.

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afresh

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Once more after rest or interval.

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afterthought

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A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.

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agglomerate

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To pile or heap together.

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aggrandize

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To cause to appear greatly.

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aggravate

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To make heavier worse or more burdensome.

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aggravation

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The fact of being made heavier or more heinous as a crime or offense or misfortune

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aggregate

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The entire number sum mass or quantity of something

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aggress

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To make the first attack.

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aggression

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An unprovoked attack.

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aggrieve

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To give grief or sorrow to.

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aghast

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Struck with terror and amazement.

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agile

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Able to move or act quickly physically or mentally.

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agitate

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To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).

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agrarian

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Pertaining to land especially agricultural land.

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aide-de-camp

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An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.

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ailment

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Slight sickness.

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airy

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Delicate ethereal.

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akin

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Of similar nature or qualities.

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alabaster

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A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.

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alacrity

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Cheerful willingness.

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albino

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A person with milky white skin and hair and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.

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album

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A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.

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alchemy

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Chemistry of the middle ages characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.

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alcohol

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A volatile inflammable colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.

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alcoholism

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A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.

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alcove

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A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.

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alder

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Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus of the oak family.

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alderman

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A member of a municipal legislative body who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.

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aldermanship

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The dignity condition office or term of office of an alderman.

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alias

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An assumed name.

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alien

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One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.

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alienable

A

Capable of being aliened or alienated as lands.

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alienate

A

To cause to turn away.

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alienation

A

Estrangement.

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aliment

A

That which nourishes.

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alkali

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Anything that will neutralize an acid as lime magnesia etc

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allay

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To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of mitigate.

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allege

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To assert to be true especially in a formal manner as in court.

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allegory

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The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.

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alleviate

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To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.

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alley

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A narrow street garden path walk or the like.

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alliance

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Any combination or union for some common purpose.

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allot

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To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.

203
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allotment

A

Portion.

204
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allude

A

To refer incidentally or by suggestion.

205
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allusion

A

An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.

206
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alluvion

A

Flood.

207
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ally

A

A person or thing connected with another usually in some relation of helpfulness.

208
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almanac

A

A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.

209
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aloof

A

Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.

210
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altar

A

Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.

211
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alter

A

To make change in.

212
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alteration

A

Change or modification.

213
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altercate

A

To contend angrily or zealously in words.

214
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alternate

A

One chosen to act in place of another in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.

215
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alternative

A

Something that may or must exist be taken or chosen or done instead of something else.

216
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altitude

A

Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level as the sea.

217
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alto

A

The lowest or deepest female voice or part.

218
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altruism

A

Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.

219
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altruist

A

One who advocates or practices altruism.

220
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amalgam

A

An alloy or union of mercury with another metal.

221
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amalgamate

A

To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.

222
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amateur

A

Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it but not as a profession.

223
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amatory

A

Designed to excite love.

224
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ambidextrous

A

Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.

225
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ambiguous

A

Having a double meaning.

226
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ambitious

A

Eagerly desirous and aspiring.

227
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ambrosial

A

Divinely sweet fragrant or delicious.

228
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ambulance

A

A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.

229
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ambulate

A

To walk about

230
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ambush

A

The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.

231
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ameliorate

A

To relieve as from pain or hardship

232
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amenable

A

Willing and ready to submit.

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Americanism

A

A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.

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amicable

A

Done in a friendly spirit.

235
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amity

A

Friendship.

236
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amorous

A

Having a propensity for falling in love.

237
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amorphous

A

Without determinate shape.

238
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amour

A

A love-affair especially one of an illicit nature.

239
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ampere

A

The practical unit of electric-current strength.

240
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ampersand

A

The character and.

241
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amphibious

A

Living both on land and in water.

242
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amphitheater

A

An edifice of elliptical shape constructed about a central open space or arena.

243
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amplitude

A

Largeness.

244
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amply

A

Sufficiently.

245
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amputate

A

To remove by cutting as a limb or some portion of the body.

246
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amusement

A

Diversion.

247
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anachronism

A

Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.

248
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anagram

A

The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.

249
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analogous

A

Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects as in form proportion relations.

250
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analogy

A

Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.

251
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analyst

A

One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.

252
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analyze

A

To examine minutely or critically.

253
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anarchy

A

Absence or utter disregard of government.

254
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anathema

A

Anything forbidden as by social usage.

255
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anatomy

A

That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms.

256
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ancestry

A

One’s ancestors collectively.

257
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anecdote

A

A brief account of some interesting event or incident.

258
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anemia

A

Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles.

259
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anemic

A

Affected with anemia.

260
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anemometer

A

An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.

261
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anesthetic

A

Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation.

262
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anew

A

Once more.

263
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angelic

A

Saintly.

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Anglophobia

A

Hatred or dread of England or of what is English.

265
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Anglo-Saxon

A

The entire English race wherever found as in Europe the United States or India.

266
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angular

A

Sharp-cornered.

267
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anhydrous

A

Withered.

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animadversion

A

The utterance of criticism or censure.

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animadvert

A

To pass criticism or censure.

270
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animalcule

A

An animal of microscopic smallness.

271
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animate

A

To make alive.

272
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animosity

A

Hatred.

273
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annalist

A

Historian.

274
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annals

A

A record of events in their chronological order year by year.

275
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annex

A

To add or affix at the end.

276
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annihilate

A

To destroy absolutely.

277
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annotate

A

To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon.

278
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annual

A

Occurring every year.

279
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annuity

A

An annual allowance payment or income.

280
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annunciation

A

Proclamation.

281
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anode

A

The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.

282
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anonymous

A

Of unknown authorship.

283
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antagonism

A

Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces principles or persons.

284
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Antarctic

A

Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it.

285
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ante

A

In the game of poker to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.

286
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antecede

A

To precede.

287
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antecedent

A

One who or that which precedes or goes before as in time place rank order ort causality

288
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antechamber

A

A waiting room for those who seek audience.

289
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antedate

A

To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.

290
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antediluvian

A

Of or pertaining to the times things events before the great flood in the days of Noah.

291
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antemeridian

A

Before noon.

292
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antemundane

A

Pertaining to time before the world’s creation.

293
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antenatal

A

Occurring or existing before birth.

294
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anterior

A

Prior.

295
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anteroom

A

A room situated before and opening into another usually larger.

296
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anthology

A

A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors.

297
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anthracite

A

Hard coal.

298
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anthropology

A

The science of man in general.

299
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anthropomorphous

A

Having or resembling human form.

300
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antic

A

A grotesque ludicrous or fantastic action.

301
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Antichrist

A

Any opponent or enemy of Christ whether a person or a power.

302
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anticlimax

A

A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.

303
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anticyclone

A

An atmospheric condition of high central pressure with currents flowing outward.

304
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antidote

A

Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison disease or the like.

305
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antilogy

A

Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.

306
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antipathize

A

To show or feel a feeling of antagonism aversion or dislike.

307
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antiphon

A

A response or alteration of responses generally musical.

308
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antiphony

A

An anthem or other composition sung responsively.

309
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antipodes

A

A place or region on the opposite side of the earth.

310
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antiquary

A

One who collects and examines old things as coins books medals weapons etc

311
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antiquate

A

To make old or out of date.

312
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antique

A

Pertaining to ancient times.

313
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antiseptic

A

Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms.

314
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antislavery

A

Opposed to human slavery.

315
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antispasmodic

A

Tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections.

316
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antistrophe

A

The inversion of terms in successive classes as in the home of joy and the joy of home.

317
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antitoxin

A

A substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.

318
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antonym

A

A word directly opposed to another in meaning.

319
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anxious

A

Distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter.

320
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apathy

A

Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling.

321
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aperture

A

Hole.

322
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apex

A

The highest point as of a mountain.

323
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aphorism

A

Proverb.

324
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apiary

A

A place where bees are kept.

325
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apogee

A

The climax.

326
Q

apology

A

A disclaimer of intentional error or offense.

327
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apostasy

A

A total departure from one’s faith or religion.

328
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apostate

A

False.

329
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apostle

A

Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.

330
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apothecary

A

One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.

331
Q

apotheosis

A

Deification.

332
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appall

A

To fill with dismay or horror.

333
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apparent

A

Easily understood.

334
Q

apparition

A

Ghost.

335
Q

appease

A

To soothe by quieting anger or indignation.

336
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appellate

A

Capable of being appealed to.

337
Q

appellation

A

The name or title by which a particular person class or thing is called.

338
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append

A

To add or attach as something accessory subordinate or supplementary.

339
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appertain

A

To belong as by right fitness association or classification or possession or nature relation.

340
Q

apposite

A

Appropriate.

341
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apposition

A

The act of placing side by side together or in contact.

342
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appraise

A

To estimate the money value of.

343
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appreciable

A

Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect.

344
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apprehend

A

To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law.

345
Q

apprehensible

A

Capable of being conceived.

346
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approbation

A

Sanction.

347
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appropriate

A

Suitable for the purpose and circumstances.

348
Q

aqueduct

A

A water-conduit particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.

349
Q

aqueous

A

Of pertaining to or containing water.

350
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arbiter

A

One chosen or appointed by mutual consent of parties in dispute to decide matters.

351
Q

arbitrary

A

Fixed or done capriciously.

352
Q

arbitrate

A

To act or give judgment as umpire.

353
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arbor

A

A tree.

354
Q

arboreal

A

Of or pertaining to a tree or trees.

355
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arborescent

A

Having the nature of a tree.

356
Q

arboretum

A

A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs.

357
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arboriculture

A

The cultivation of trees or shrubs.

358
Q

arcade

A

A vaulted passageway or street a roofed passageway having shops etc. opening from it.

359
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archaic

A

Antiquated

360
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archaism

A

Obsolescence.

361
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archangel

A

An angel of high rank.

362
Q

archbishop

A

The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek Roman and Anglican church.

363
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archdeacon

A

A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.

364
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archaeology

A

The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man.

365
Q

archetype

A

A prototype.

366
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archipelago

A

Any large body of water studded with islands or the islands collectively themselves.

367
Q

ardent

A

Burning with passion.

368
Q

ardor

A

Intensity of passion or affection.

369
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arid

A

Very dry.

370
Q

aristocracy

A

A hereditary nobility

371
Q

aristocrat

A

A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility.

372
Q

armada

A

A fleet of war-vessels.

373
Q

armful

A

As much as can be held in the arm or arms.

374
Q

armory

A

An arsenal.

375
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aroma

A

An agreeable odor.

376
Q

arraign

A

To call into court as a person indicted for crime and demand whether he pleads guilty or not.

377
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arrange

A

To put in definite or proper order.

378
Q

arrangement

A

The act of putting in proper order or the state of being put in order.

379
Q

arrant

A

Notoriously bad.

380
Q

arrear

A

Something overdue and unpaid.

381
Q

arrival

A

A coming to stopping-place or destination.

382
Q

arrogant

A

Unduly or excessively proud as of wealth station lerning etc.

383
Q

arrogate

A

To take demand or claim especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds.

384
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Artesian well

A

A very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure

385
Q

artful

A

Characterized by craft or cunning.

386
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Arthurian

A

Pertaining to King Arthur the real or legendary hero of British poetic story.

387
Q

artifice

A

Trickery.

388
Q

artless

A

Ingenuous.

389
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ascendant

A

Dominant.

390
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ascension

A

The act of rising.

391
Q

ascent

A

A rising soaring or climbing.

392
Q

ascetic

A

Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion.

393
Q

ascribe

A

To assign as a quality or attribute.

394
Q

asexual

A

Having no distinct sexual organs.

395
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ashen

A

Pale.

396
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askance

A

With a side or indirect glance or meaning.

397
Q

asperity

A

Harshness or roughness of temper.

398
Q

aspirant

A

One who seeks earnestly as for advancement honors place.

399
Q

aspiration

A

An earnest wish for that which is above one’s present reach.

400
Q

aspire

A

To have an earnest desire wish or longing as for something high and good not yet attained.

401
Q

assailant

A

One who attacks.

402
Q

assassin

A

One who kills or tries to kill treacherously or secretly.

403
Q

assassinate

A

To kill as by surprise or secret assault especially the killing of some eminent person.

404
Q

assassination

A

Murderer as by secret assault or treachery.

405
Q

assay

A

The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore.

406
Q

assent

A

To express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion.

407
Q

assess

A

To determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid).

408
Q

assessor

A

An officer whose duty it is to assess taxes.

409
Q

assets

A

pl. Property in general regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.

410
Q

assiduous

A

Diligent.

411
Q

assignee

A

One who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests.

412
Q

assimilate

A

To adapt.

413
Q

assonance

A

Resemblance or correspondence in sound.

414
Q

assonant

A

Having resemblance of sound.

415
Q

assonate

A

To accord in sound especially vowel sound.

416
Q

assuage

A

To cause to be less harsh violent or severe as excitement or appetite or pain or disease.

417
Q

astringent

A

Harsh in disposition or character.

418
Q

astute

A

Keen in discernment.

419
Q

atheism

A

The denial of the existence of God.

420
Q

athirst

A

Wanting water.

421
Q

athwart

A

From side to side.

422
Q

atomizer

A

An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray as for disinfection inhalation

423
Q

atone

A

To make amends for.

424
Q

atonement

A

Amends reparation or expiation made from wrong or injury.

425
Q

atrocious

A

Outrageously or wantonly wicked criminal vile or cruel.

426
Q

atrocity

A

Great cruelty or reckless wickedness.

427
Q

attache

A

A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy.

428
Q

attest

A

To certify as accurate genuine or true.

429
Q

attorney-general

A

The chief law-officer of a government.

430
Q

auburn

A

Reddish-brown said usually of the hair.

431
Q

audacious

A

Fearless.

432
Q

audible

A

Loud enough to be heard.

433
Q

audition

A

The act or sensation of hearing.

434
Q

auditory

A

Of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing.

435
Q

augment

A

To make bigger.

436
Q

augur

A

To predict.

437
Q

Augustinian

A

Pertaining to St. Augustine his doctrines or the religious orders called after him.

438
Q

aura

A

Pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons

439
Q

aural

A

Of or pertaining to the ear.

440
Q

auricle

A

One of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.

441
Q

auricular

A

Of or pertaining to the ear its auricle or the sense of hearing.

442
Q

auriferous

A

Containing gold.

443
Q

aurora

A

A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere.

444
Q

auspice

A

favoring protecting or propitious influence or guidance.

445
Q

austere

A

Severely simple unadorned.

446
Q

autarchy

A

Unrestricted power.

447
Q

authentic

A

Of undisputed origin.

448
Q

authenticity

A

The state or quality of being genuine or of the origin and authorship claimed.

449
Q

autobiography

A

The story of one’s life written by himself.

450
Q

autocracy

A

Absolute government.

451
Q

autocrat

A

Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence.

452
Q

automaton

A

Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.

453
Q

autonomous

A

Self-governing.

454
Q

autonomy

A

Self-government.

455
Q

autopsy

A

The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death.

456
Q

autumnal

A

Of or pertaining to autumn.

457
Q

auxiliary

A

One who or that which aids or helps especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory.

458
Q

avalanche

A

The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope often bearing with it rock.

459
Q

avarice

A

Passion for getting and keeping riches.

460
Q

aver

A

To assert as a fact.

461
Q

averse

A

Reluctant.

462
Q

aversion

A

A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing.

463
Q

avert

A

To turn away or aside.

464
Q

aviary

A

A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept.

465
Q

avidity

A

Greediness.

466
Q

avocation

A

Diversion.

467
Q

avow

A

To declare openly.

468
Q

awaken

A

To arouse as emotion interest or the like.

469
Q

awry

A

Out of the proper form direction or position.

470
Q

aye

A

An expression of assent.

471
Q

azalea

A

A flowering shrub.

472
Q

azure

A

The color of the sky.

473
Q

Baconian

A

Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy.

474
Q

bacterium

A

A microbe.

475
Q

badger

A

To pester.

476
Q

baffle

A

To foil or frustrate.

477
Q

bailiff

A

An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.

478
Q

baize

A

A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers curtains etc.

479
Q

bale

A

A large package prepared for transportation or storage.

480
Q

baleful

A

Malignant.

481
Q

ballad

A

Any popular narrative poem often with epic subject and usually in lyric form.

482
Q

balsam

A

A medical preparation aromatic and oily used for healing.

483
Q

banal

A

Commonplace.

484
Q

barcarole

A

A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers.

485
Q

barograph

A

An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.

486
Q

barometer

A

An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface.

487
Q

baritone

A

Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor.

488
Q

bask

A

To make warm by genial heat.

489
Q

bass

A

Low in tone or compass.

490
Q

baste

A

To cover with melted fat gravy while cooking.

491
Q

baton

A

An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.

492
Q

battalion

A

A body of infantry composed of two or more companies forming a part of a regiment.

493
Q

batten

A

A narrow strip of wood.

494
Q

batter

A

A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together to be used in cookery.

495
Q

bauble

A

A trinket.

496
Q

bawl

A

To proclaim by outcry.

497
Q

beatify

A

To make supremely happy.

498
Q

beatitude

A

Any state of great happiness.

499
Q

beau

A

An escort or lover.

500
Q

becalm

A

To make quiet.

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