axiom
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- a universally recognized principle taken as given possessing self-evident truth.
- axiom
- to state as a fact; to confirm or support.
- aver
- strenuous taxing, requiring significant effort.
- arduous
- outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time.
- archaic
- deviation from the normal order, from or rule; abnormality
- anomaly
- something or someone out of place in terms of its historical or chronological context.
- anachronism
- having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe.
- astringent
- an _expression of approval or praise
- approbation
- greed especially for wealth
- avarice
- without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic.
- austere
- agreeable; responsive to suggestion
- amenable
- a medieval science aimed as the transmutation of metals esp. base metals to gold.
- alchemy
- eager and enthusiastic willingness
- alacrity
- to make better or tolerable
- ameliorate
- to increase in intensity, power, or prestige.
- aggrandize
- to combine several elements into a whole
- amalgamate-
- dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful
- aesthetic
- having a sour or bitter taste or character.
- acerbic
- an _expression of praise.
- accolade
- to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide.
- abscond
- to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
- adulterate
- excessive praise; intense adoration
- adulation
- deviating from the norm
- aberrant
- divination from omens or portents or from chance events
- augury-
- to accept or comply tacitly or passively
- acquiesce
- a substantive word, or phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
- antecedent
- intrepidly daring: adventurous
- audacious
- to abolish by authoritative action.
- abrogate
- to settle judicially
- adjudicate
- friendly relations between nations
- amity
- prematurely born.
- abortive
- accent or emphasize.
- accentuate
- lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested.
- abeyance
- to warn mildly.
- admonish
- power of attraction or fascination
- alluremen
- to take up or in; to receive; to take into partnership, employment or use; to take upon oneself; to take as granted or true; undertake; usurp; suppose
- assume
- quick keen, or accurate knowledge or insight
- acumen
- to lessen in intensity or degree
- abate
- one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion
- ascetic
- sunk to or existing in a low state or condition.
- abject
- a concise statement of a principle; a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment
- aphorism
- marked by avoidance of traditional musical tonality.
- atonal
- to attribute human from or personality to things not hum
- anthropomorphize
- one who assists a clergyman in liturgical service performing minor duties
- acolyte
- one employed to write from dictation or to copy manuscript
- amanuensis
- the act of alluding to or hinting at.
- allude
- to renounce upon oath; to reject solemnly
- abjure
- to bring into line or alignment; to array on the side of or against a party or cause
- align
- the fidelity owed by a subject or citizen to his sovereign or government
- allegiance
- to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert positiv
- avouch
- to apply an ointment or oily liquid to, by rubb
- anoint
- to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength or extent; inc
- augment-
- to ease or lessen; to appease or satisf
- assuage
- a divine imparting of knowledge or power; inspiration
- afflatus-
- something a person does in addition to a principal occupation, esp. for pleasure; hobby.
- avocation
- a damaging or derogatory remark.
- aspersion
- cleansing with water or other liquid, esp. as a religious ritual
- ablution
- sparing in eating and drinking; temperate. Characterized by abstinence
- abstemious
- known or knowable only to one having the key: secret
- arcane
- .-to absolve from sin, grant absolution to, pardon, forgive; an ejaculatory prayer for the departed
- assoil
- solution, explanation
- assoi
- an apparatus formerly used in distillation; something that refines or transmutes as if by distillation
- alembic
- one who lives in seclusion usually for religious reasons
- anchorite
- an apparatus (as for sterilizing) using super heated steam under pressure
- autoclave
- to subject to the action of an autoclave
- autoclave
- preventing infection; free or freed from pathogenic microorganisms; lacking vitality, emotion, or warmth; detached, objective
- aseptic
- marked by inexcusable failure to exercise intelligence or sound judgment; of or relating to, or resembling an ass
- asinine
- of or relating to, or resembling an eagle; curved like an eagles beak
- aquiline
- a secluded dwelling of a Hindu sage; the group of disciples instructed there; a religious retreat
- ashram
- to attack violently with blows or words
- assail
- the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences; opposition; contrast
- antithesis
- constituting or marked by antithesis
- antithetical
- one who holds that under the gospel dispensation of grace the moral law is of no use or obligation because faith alone is unnecessary to salvation
- antinomian
- to cripple by a stroke
- apoplexy-
- being notoriously without moderation: extreme
- arrant
- the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup; increase by external addition or accumulation
- accretion
- writings or statements of dubious authenticity; books included in the Septuagint and Vulgate but excluded from the Jewish and Protestant canons of the Old Testament; early Christian writings not included in the new Testament
- apocrypha
- of or relating to the Apocrypha; of doubtful authenticity: spurious
- apocryphal
- having the hand one the hip and the elbow turned outward; set in a bent position
- akimbo
- an accessory item of clothing or equipment; equipment; trappings; a soldiers outfit usually not including clothes and weapons
- accoutrement
- having no definite form: shapeless; being without definite character or nature: unclassifiable; lacking organization or unity
- amorphous
- to pronounce with an accompanying h-sound
- aspirate
- an independent sound \h\ or a character representing it
- aspirate
- the incarnation of a Hindu deity; an incarnation in human form
- the incarnation of a Hindu deity; an incarnation in human form
- a self taught person
- autodidact
- surrender; relinquish; deny; renounce
- abnegation
- sorrow for one’s sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of god; the act of rubbing together: friction; the act of weakening or exhausting by constant harassment or abuse
- attrition
- of relating to, or situated at the apex; of, relating to, or formed with the tip of the tongue
- apical
- the _expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence; an instance(as in a story or painting) of such _expression
- allegory