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- Atrophy
- Medical experts state that almost every case of muscle and tissue __________ is the result of changes in cell nutrition, disease, or prolonged disease.
- Atrocity
- For days after the city had fallen to the enemy, bands of drunken soldiers wandered the streets, commiting one _________ after another on the helpless and terrified population.
- Austere
- My grandfather was an ________ man whom I never knew to laugh or smile.
- Authentic
- "the painting the salesman showed you has to be fake," Vera informed me. "You can't buy an _________ Rembrant for five dollars."
- Atone
- "You made an honest mistake," Wanda said. "Don't feel that you have to ___________ for it."
- Augment
- If we are to contend with the population explosion, we must__________ the world's food supply.
- Asylum
- The eighteenth century poet Christopher Smart spent a good deal of his life in the infamous London insane _________ commonly called Bedlam.
- Attrition
- Guerilla warfare achieves its ends through a slow but steady process of _____________, rather than by victory in a quick, winner take all campaign.
- Augur
- The Aztecs of Mexico believed that comets __________ impending disaster, even the end of the world.
- Astute
- The novelist Jane Austin was an _________ observer of life and manners in English countryside at the beginning of the 19th century.