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Abdicate: Verb

To give up formally, as an office, duty, power or claim

resign, renounce, relinquish, divest oneself of; resignation, renunciation, relinquishment

retain, hold onto
Abet: Verb

To encourage or assist, especially in wrongdoing

egg on; promote, further, advance, help, aid

dissuade, discourage, deter, restrain, curb, inhibit, hinder, block, frustrate, thwart
Abhor: Verb

To regard with horror and loathing; to hate intensely

Loathe, despise, detest, abominate

Like, fancy, relish, love, cherish, delight in, be fond of, dote on
Abject: Adjective

a. Wrteched, miserable, degrading, humiliating

b. Mean-spirited, base; despicable, contemptible

c. Complete and unrelieved

Disheartening, debasing, hopeless, helpless, vile, shameless, ignoble, craven; utter, sheer, downright, thoroughgoing
Absolve: Verb

To clear of guilt or blame

Acquit, exonerate, exculpate, vindicate, acquittal, exoneration, vindication

Incriminate, inculpate, indict, impeach; conveict, condemn; indictment; conviction, condemnation
Abstain: Verb

To refrain completely and voluntarily

Forgo, forbear, avoid, shun, eschew, self-restraint, self-denial, forbearance, abstemiousness; abstemious, forebearing, temperate, sparing, moderate, ascetic

indulge, partake; indulgence, self-indulgent, intemperate, immoderate
Academic: Adjective

a. Pertaining to a college or other institution of learning; scholarly
b. Theoretical rather than practical; unrealistic

scholastic; speculative
Accede: Verb

a. To yield to; to agree to
b. To enter upon an office or dignity

Agree, asent, consent, concur, acquiesce, comply

Dissent, demur, balk at
Acclimate: Verb

To get used to

Adjust, adapt, orient, orientate, familiarize, accustom, habituate; orientation
Addiction: A habit-forming practice or pursuit, usually one that is bad for a person's health or morally objectionable; habitual use of, or devotion to, something
Adjourn: Verb

a. To close formally
b. To put off to another time; to move to another place

Conclude, terminate, defer, postpone, suspend, transfer
Adverse: Adjective

Hostile in purpose or effect; unfavorable

Unfavorable, unfriendly, negative, antagonistic, antipathetic, inimical

Faborable, friendly, propitious
Advocate: Verb

a. To speak or argue in favor of; to give active public support to
b. A person who pleads in the interest of a cause or individual

Champion, support, espouse, uphold, recommend, proponent, back, defender, spokesman

Denounce, condmn, oppose, attack, critic; opponent, adversary, antagonist
Aesthetic: Adjective

Pertaining to a sense of beauty; artistic
Affable: Adjective

Coureous and agreeable in manner; easy to talk to or approach

Sociable, genial, amiable, friendly, good-natured

Unsociable, surly, testy, ill-tempered
Affectation: Noun

A pretentious display of manners or sentiments that are not genuine; a paticular hait of dress or behavior that has been adopted to impress others

Pose, pretense; mannerism
Affluent: Adjective

Prosperous, wealthy

Flourishing, well-to-do, opulent

Indigent, destitute, penniless, poverty-stricken
Agenda: Noun

A list or program of things to be done or acted upon

Schedule, docket
Aggregate: Verb, Noun, Adjective

a. The total amount or some total of the individual parts
b. To gether or merge into a single whole; to amount to
c. Total, collective

Mass, assemblage, amalgamation, conglomeration, cluster; amalgamate, consolidate; net, composite
Agile: Adjective

Swift and light in action, movement or thought

Nimble, limber, alert, brisk, supple, lithe, spry

Torpid, sluggish, lethargic; awkward, clumsy
Alienate: Verb

To cause hostility or indifference where love, friendliness or interest formerly existed

Estrange, disaffect, antagonize

Befriend, captivate
Allege: Verb

To claim that something is true but without offering any proof

Claim, contend; declare, assert, affirm, avow, asservate, aver
Allude: Verb

To refer to indirectly

Hint at, suggest, insinuate, intimate
Abbience: Noun

The surrounding or pervading atmosphere; the tone and spirit of an environment

Surroundings, millieu, setting; character, flavor
Ambivalent: Adjective

Wavering or uncertain because of an inability to make a choice between two contradictory feelings or viewpoints in regard to a person, a thing, or a course of action

Contradictory, opposing, conflicting, equivocal, vacillating

Definite, firm, unwavering, steady, clear-cut, unequivocal
Amnsesty: Noun

An officila pardon granted to offenders against the government, especially for political offenses

Forgiveness, immunity, remission, absolution
Anachronism: Noun

The misplacing of an object or event in a period to which it cannot possibly belong; anything out of its proper ime frame

Incongruity, inconsistency, contradiction, throwback
Anarchy: Absence of governmental authority; general political and social disorder

Disorder, chaos, lawlessness, pandemonium, turmoil
Anathema: Noun

a. A curse or strong denunciation
b. The person or thing cursed; more generally any object of intense dislike

MAlediction, execration, imprecation, abomination

Blessing, bendiction, eulogy, encomium; bless, glify, praise, extol, cherish
Anecdote: Noun

A brief account of some interesting or amusing incident, especially one containing biographical or historical details

Tale, story, vignette, sketch, narrative, remiscence, memoir, episode, storyteller, racounteur

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