EVC 01 (A-D) Flashcards
English Vocabulary Advanced
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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
Without concealment fraud or trickery.
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abrade
To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.
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abrasion
That which is rubbed off.
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abridge
To make shorter in words keeping the essential features leaning out minor particles.
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abridgment
A condensed form as of a book or play.
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abrogate
To abolish repeal.
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abrupt
Beginning ending or changing suddenly or with a break.
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abscess
A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
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abscission
The act of cutting off as in a surgical operation.
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abscond
To depart suddenly and secretly as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
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absence
The fact of not being present or available.
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absent-minded
Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.
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absolution
Forgiveness or passing over of offenses.
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absolve
To free from sin or its penalties.
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absorb
To drink in or suck up as a sponge absorbs water.
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absorption
The act or process of absorbing.
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abstain
To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).
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abstemious
Characterized by self denial or abstinence as in the use of drink food.
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abstinence
Self denial.
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abstruse
Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.
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absurd
Inconsistent with reason or common sense.
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abundant
Plentiful.
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abusive
Employing harsh words or ill treatment.
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abut
To touch at the end or boundary line.
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abyss
Bottomless gulf.
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academic
Of or pertaining to an academy college or university.
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academician
A member of an academy of literature art or science.
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academy
Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught.
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accede
To agree.
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accelerate
To move faster.
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accept
To take when offered.
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access
A way of approach or entrance or passage.
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accessible
Approachable.
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accession
Induction or elevation as to dignity office or government.
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accessory
A person or thing that aids the principal agent.
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acclaim
To utter with a shout.
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accommodate
To furnish something as a kindness or favor.
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accompaniment
A subordinate part or parts enriching or supporting the leading part.
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accompanist
One who or that which accompanies.
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accompany
To go with or be associated with as a companion.
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accomplice
An associate in wrong-doing.
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accomplish
To bring to pass.
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accordion
A portable free-reed musical instrument.
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accost
To speak to.
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account
A record or statement of receipts and expenditures or of business transactions.
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accouter
To dress.
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accredit
To give credit or authority to.
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accumulate
To become greater in quantity or number.
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accuracy
Exactness.
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accurate
Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard.
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accursed
Doomed to evil misery or misfortune.
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accusation
A charge of crime misdemeanor or error.
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accusatory
Of pertaining to or involving an accusation.
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accuse
To charge with wrong doing misconduct or error.
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accustom
To make familiar by use.
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acerbity
Sourness with bitterness and astringency.
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acetate
A salt of acetic acid.
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acetic
Of pertaining to or of the nature of vinegar.
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ache
To be in pain or distress.
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Achillean
Invulnerable.
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achromatic
Colorless
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acid
A sour substance.
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acidify
To change into acid.
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acknowledge
To recognize or to admit the genuineness or validity of.
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acknowledgment
Recognition.
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acme
The highest point or summit.
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acoustic
Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
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acquaint
To make familiar or conversant.
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acquiesce
To comply or submit.
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acquiescence
Passive consent.
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acquire
To get as one's own.
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acquisition
Anything gained or made one's own usually by effort or labor.
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acquit
To free or clear as from accusation.
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acquittal
A discharge from accusation by judicial action.
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acquittance
Release or discharge from indebtedness
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acreage
Quantity or extent of land
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acrid
Harshly pungent or bitter.
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acrimonious
Full of bitterness.
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acrimony
Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.
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actionable
Affording cause for instituting an action as trespass slanderous words.
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actuality
Any reality.
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actuary
An officer as of an insurance company who calculates and states the risks and premiums.
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actuate
To move or incite to action.
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acumen
Quickness of intellectual insight or discernment or keenness of discrimination.
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acute
Having fine and penetrating discernment.
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adamant
Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability.
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addendum
Something added or to be added.
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addle
To make inefficient or worthless or muddle.
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adduce
To bring forward or name for consideration.
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adhere
To stick fast or together.
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adherence
Attachment.
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adherent
Clinging or sticking fast.
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adhesion
The state of being attached or joined.
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adieu inter. Good-by
farewell.
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adjacency
The state of being adjacent.
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adjacent
That which is near or bordering upon.
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adjudge
To award or bestow by formal decision.
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adjunct
Something joined to or connected with another thing but holding a subordinate place.
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adjuration
A vehement appeal.
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adjutant
Auxiliary.
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administrator
One who manages affairs of any kind.
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admissible
Having the right or privilege of entry.
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admittance
Entrance or the right or permission to enter.
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admonish
To warn of a fault.
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admonition
Gentle reproof.
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ado
unnecessary activity or ceremony.
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adoration
Profound devotion.
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adroit
Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.
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adulterant
An adulterating substance.
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adulterate
To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.
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adumbrate
To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
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advent
The coming or arrival as of any important change event state or personage.
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adverse
Opposing or opposed.
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adversity
Misfortune.
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advert
To refer incidentally.
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advertiser
One who advertises especially in newspapers.
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advisory
Not mandatory.
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advocacy
The act of pleading a cause.
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advocate
One who pleads the cause of another as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.
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aerial
Of pertaining to or like the air.
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aeronaut
One who navigates the air a balloonist.
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aeronautics
the art or practice of flying aircraft
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aerostat
A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
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aerostatics
The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium pressure and mechanical properties.
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affable
Easy to approach.
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affect
To act upon
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affectation
A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
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affiliate
Some auxiliary person or thing.
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affirmative
Answering yes to a question at issue.
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affix
To fasten.
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affluence
A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
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affront
An open insult or indignity.
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afire
On fire literally or figuratively.
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afoot
In progress.
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aforesaid
Said in a preceding part or before.
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afresh
Once more after rest or interval.
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afterthought
A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.
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agglomerate
To pile or heap together.
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aggrandize
To cause to appear greatly.
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aggravate
To make heavier worse or more burdensome.
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aggravation
The fact of being made heavier or more heinous as a crime or offense or misfortune
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aggregate
The entire number sum mass or quantity of something
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aggress
To make the first attack.
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aggression
An unprovoked attack.
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aggrieve
To give grief or sorrow to.
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aghast
Struck with terror and amazement.
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agile
Able to move or act quickly physically or mentally.
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agitate
To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).
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agrarian
Pertaining to land especially agricultural land.
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aide-de-camp
An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
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ailment
Slight sickness.
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airy
Delicate ethereal.
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akin
Of similar nature or qualities.
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alabaster
A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
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alacrity
Cheerful willingness.
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albino
A person with milky white skin and hair and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
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album
A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
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alchemy
Chemistry of the middle ages characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.
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alcohol
A volatile inflammable colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.
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alcoholism
A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
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alcove
A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
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alder
Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus of the oak family.
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alderman
A member of a municipal legislative body who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
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aldermanship
The dignity condition office or term of office of an alderman.
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alias
An assumed name.
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alien
One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.
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alienable
Capable of being aliened or alienated as lands.
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alienate
To cause to turn away.
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alienation
Estrangement.
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aliment
That which nourishes.
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alkali
Anything that will neutralize an acid as lime magnesia etc
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allay
To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of mitigate.
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allege
To assert to be true especially in a formal manner as in court.
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allegory
The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
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alleviate
To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
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alley
A narrow street garden path walk or the like.
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alliance
Any combination or union for some common purpose.
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allot
To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.
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allotment
Portion.
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allude
To refer incidentally or by suggestion.
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allusion
An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
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alluvion
Flood.
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ally
A person or thing connected with another usually in some relation of helpfulness.
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almanac
A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.
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aloof
Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
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altar
Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
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alter
To make change in.
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alteration
Change or modification.
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altercate
To contend angrily or zealously in words.
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alternate
One chosen to act in place of another in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.
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alternative
Something that may or must exist be taken or chosen or done instead of something else.
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altitude
Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level as the sea.
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alto
The lowest or deepest female voice or part.
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altruism
Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
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altruist
One who advocates or practices altruism.
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amalgam
An alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
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amalgamate
To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.
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amateur
Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it but not as a profession.
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amatory
Designed to excite love.
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ambidextrous
Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.
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ambiguous
Having a double meaning.
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ambitious
Eagerly desirous and aspiring.
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ambrosial
Divinely sweet fragrant or delicious.
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ambulance
A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.
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ambulate
To walk about
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ambush
The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
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ameliorate
To relieve as from pain or hardship
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amenable
Willing and ready to submit.
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Americanism
A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.
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amicable
Done in a friendly spirit.
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amity
Friendship.
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amorous
Having a propensity for falling in love.
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amorphous
Without determinate shape.
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amour
A love-affair especially one of an illicit nature.
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ampere
The practical unit of electric-current strength.
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ampersand
The character and.
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amphibious
Living both on land and in water.
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amphitheater
An edifice of elliptical shape constructed about a central open space or arena.
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amplitude
Largeness.
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amply
Sufficiently.
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amputate
To remove by cutting as a limb or some portion of the body.
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amusement
Diversion.
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anachronism
Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
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anagram
The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.
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analogous
Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects as in form proportion relations.
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analogy
Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.
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analyst
One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.
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analyze
To examine minutely or critically.
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anarchy
Absence or utter disregard of government.
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anathema
Anything forbidden as by social usage.
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anatomy
That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms.
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ancestry
One's ancestors collectively.
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anecdote
A brief account of some interesting event or incident.
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anemia
Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles.
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anemic
Affected with anemia.
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anemometer
An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.
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anesthetic
Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation.
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anew
Once more.
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angelic
Saintly.
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Anglophobia
Hatred or dread of England or of what is English.
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Anglo-Saxon
The entire English race wherever found as in Europe the United States or India.
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angular
Sharp-cornered.
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anhydrous
Withered.
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animadversion
The utterance of criticism or censure.
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animadvert
To pass criticism or censure.
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animalcule
An animal of microscopic smallness.
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animate
To make alive.
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animosity
Hatred.
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annalist
Historian.
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annals
A record of events in their chronological order year by year.
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annex
To add or affix at the end.
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annihilate
To destroy absolutely.
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annotate
To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon.
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annual
Occurring every year.
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annuity
An annual allowance payment or income.
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annunciation
Proclamation.
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anode
The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
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anonymous
Of unknown authorship.
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antagonism
Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces principles or persons.
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Antarctic
Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it.
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ante
In the game of poker to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.
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antecede
To precede.
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antecedent
One who or that which precedes or goes before as in time place rank order ort causality
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antechamber
A waiting room for those who seek audience.
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antedate
To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.
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antediluvian
Of or pertaining to the times things events before the great flood in the days of Noah.
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antemeridian
Before noon.
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antemundane
Pertaining to time before the world's creation.
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antenatal
Occurring or existing before birth.
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anterior
Prior.
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anteroom
A room situated before and opening into another usually larger.
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anthology
A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors.
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anthracite
Hard coal.
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anthropology
The science of man in general.
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anthropomorphous
Having or resembling human form.
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antic
A grotesque ludicrous or fantastic action.
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Antichrist
Any opponent or enemy of Christ whether a person or a power.
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anticlimax
A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.
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anticyclone
An atmospheric condition of high central pressure with currents flowing outward.
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antidote
Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison disease or the like.
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antilogy
Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.
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antipathize
To show or feel a feeling of antagonism aversion or dislike.
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antiphon
A response or alteration of responses generally musical.
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antiphony
An anthem or other composition sung responsively.
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antipodes
A place or region on the opposite side of the earth.
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antiquary
One who collects and examines old things as coins books medals weapons etc
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antiquate
To make old or out of date.
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antique
Pertaining to ancient times.
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antiseptic
Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms.
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antislavery
Opposed to human slavery.
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antispasmodic
Tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections.
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antistrophe
The inversion of terms in successive classes as in the home of joy and the joy of home.
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antitoxin
A substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.
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antonym
A word directly opposed to another in meaning.
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anxious
Distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter.
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apathy
Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling.
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aperture
Hole.
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apex
The highest point as of a mountain.
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aphorism
Proverb.
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apiary
A place where bees are kept.
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apogee
The climax.
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apology
A disclaimer of intentional error or offense.
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apostasy
A total departure from one's faith or religion.
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apostate
False.
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apostle
Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.
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apothecary
One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.
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apotheosis
Deification.
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appall
To fill with dismay or horror.
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apparent
Easily understood.
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apparition
Ghost.
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appease
To soothe by quieting anger or indignation.
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appellate
Capable of being appealed to.
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appellation
The name or title by which a particular person class or thing is called.
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append
To add or attach as something accessory subordinate or supplementary.
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appertain
To belong as by right fitness association or classification or possession or nature relation.
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apposite
Appropriate.
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apposition
The act of placing side by side together or in contact.
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appraise
To estimate the money value of.
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appreciable
Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect.
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apprehend
To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law.
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apprehensible
Capable of being conceived.
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approbation
Sanction.
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appropriate
Suitable for the purpose and circumstances.
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aqueduct
A water-conduit particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.
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aqueous
Of pertaining to or containing water.
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arbiter
One chosen or appointed by mutual consent of parties in dispute to decide matters.
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arbitrary
Fixed or done capriciously.
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arbitrate
To act or give judgment as umpire.
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arbor
A tree.
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arboreal
Of or pertaining to a tree or trees.
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arborescent
Having the nature of a tree.
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arboretum
A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs.
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arboriculture
The cultivation of trees or shrubs.
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arcade
A vaulted passageway or street a roofed passageway having shops etc. opening from it.
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archaic
Antiquated
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archaism
Obsolescence.
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archangel
An angel of high rank.
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archbishop
The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek Roman and Anglican church.
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archdeacon
A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.
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archaeology
The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man.
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archetype
A prototype.
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archipelago
Any large body of water studded with islands or the islands collectively themselves.
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ardent
Burning with passion.
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ardor
Intensity of passion or affection.
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arid
Very dry.
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aristocracy
A hereditary nobility
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aristocrat
A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility.
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armada
A fleet of war-vessels.
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armful
As much as can be held in the arm or arms.
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armory
An arsenal.
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aroma
An agreeable odor.
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arraign
To call into court as a person indicted for crime and demand whether he pleads guilty or not.
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arrange
To put in definite or proper order.
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arrangement
The act of putting in proper order or the state of being put in order.
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arrant
Notoriously bad.
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arrear
Something overdue and unpaid.
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arrival
A coming to stopping-place or destination.
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arrogant
Unduly or excessively proud as of wealth station lerning etc.
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arrogate
To take demand or claim especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds.
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Artesian well
A very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure
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artful
Characterized by craft or cunning.
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Arthurian
Pertaining to King Arthur the real or legendary hero of British poetic story.
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artifice
Trickery.
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artless
Ingenuous.
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ascendant
Dominant.
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ascension
The act of rising.
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ascent
A rising soaring or climbing.
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ascetic
Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion.
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ascribe
To assign as a quality or attribute.
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asexual
Having no distinct sexual organs.
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ashen
Pale.
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askance
With a side or indirect glance or meaning.
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asperity
Harshness or roughness of temper.
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aspirant
One who seeks earnestly as for advancement honors place.
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aspiration
An earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach.
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aspire
To have an earnest desire wish or longing as for something high and good not yet attained.
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assailant
One who attacks.
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assassin
One who kills or tries to kill treacherously or secretly.
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assassinate
To kill as by surprise or secret assault especially the killing of some eminent person.
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assassination
Murderer as by secret assault or treachery.
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assay
The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore.
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assent
To express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion.
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assess
To determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid).
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assessor
An officer whose duty it is to assess taxes.
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assets
pl. Property in general regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
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assiduous
Diligent.
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assignee
One who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests.
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assimilate
To adapt.
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assonance
Resemblance or correspondence in sound.
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assonant
Having resemblance of sound.
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assonate
To accord in sound especially vowel sound.
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assuage
To cause to be less harsh violent or severe as excitement or appetite or pain or disease.
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astringent
Harsh in disposition or character.
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astute
Keen in discernment.
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atheism
The denial of the existence of God.
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athirst
Wanting water.
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athwart
From side to side.
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atomizer
An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray as for disinfection inhalation
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atone
To make amends for.
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atonement
Amends reparation or expiation made from wrong or injury.
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atrocious
Outrageously or wantonly wicked criminal vile or cruel.
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atrocity
Great cruelty or reckless wickedness.
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attache
A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy.
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attest
To certify as accurate genuine or true.
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attorney-general
The chief law-officer of a government.
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auburn
Reddish-brown said usually of the hair.
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audacious
Fearless.
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audible
Loud enough to be heard.
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audition
The act or sensation of hearing.
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auditory
Of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing.
435
augment
To make bigger.
436
augur
To predict.
437
Augustinian
Pertaining to St. Augustine his doctrines or the religious orders called after him.
438
aura
Pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
439
aural
Of or pertaining to the ear.
440
auricle
One of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
441
auricular
Of or pertaining to the ear its auricle or the sense of hearing.
442
auriferous
Containing gold.
443
aurora
A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere.
444
auspice
favoring protecting or propitious influence or guidance.
445
austere
Severely simple unadorned.
446
autarchy
Unrestricted power.
447
authentic
Of undisputed origin.
448
authenticity
The state or quality of being genuine or of the origin and authorship claimed.
449
autobiography
The story of one's life written by himself.
450
autocracy
Absolute government.
451
autocrat
Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence.
452
automaton
Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.
453
autonomous
Self-governing.
454
autonomy
Self-government.
455
autopsy
The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death.
456
autumnal
Of or pertaining to autumn.
457
auxiliary
One who or that which aids or helps especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory.
458
avalanche
The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope often bearing with it rock.
459
avarice
Passion for getting and keeping riches.
460
aver
To assert as a fact.
461
averse
Reluctant.
462
aversion
A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing.
463
avert
To turn away or aside.
464
aviary
A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept.
465
avidity
Greediness.
466
avocation
Diversion.
467
avow
To declare openly.
468
awaken
To arouse as emotion interest or the like.
469
awry
Out of the proper form direction or position.
470
aye
An expression of assent.
471
azalea
A flowering shrub.
472
azure
The color of the sky.
473
Baconian
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy.
474
bacterium
A microbe.
475
badger
To pester.
476
baffle
To foil or frustrate.
477
bailiff
An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.
478
baize
A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers curtains etc.
479
bale
A large package prepared for transportation or storage.
480
baleful
Malignant.
481
ballad
Any popular narrative poem often with epic subject and usually in lyric form.
482
balsam
A medical preparation aromatic and oily used for healing.
483
banal
Commonplace.
484
barcarole
A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers.
485
barograph
An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.
486
barometer
An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface.
487
baritone
Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor.
488
bask
To make warm by genial heat.
489
bass
Low in tone or compass.
490
baste
To cover with melted fat gravy while cooking.
491
baton
An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.
492
battalion
A body of infantry composed of two or more companies forming a part of a regiment.
493
batten
A narrow strip of wood.
494
batter
A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together to be used in cookery.
495
bauble
A trinket.
496
bawl
To proclaim by outcry.
497
beatify
To make supremely happy.
498
beatitude
Any state of great happiness.
499
beau
An escort or lover.
500
becalm
To make quiet.
