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- anagram n
- The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase
- analogous adj
- Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations
- analogy n
- Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed
- analyst n
- One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method
- analyze v
- To examine minutely or critically
- anarchy n
- Absence or utter disregard of government
- anathema n
- Anything forbidden, as by social usage
- anatomy n
- That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms
- ancestry n
- One's ancestors collectively
- anecdote n
- A brief account of some interesting event or incident
- anemia n
- Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles
- anemic adj
- Affected with anemia
- anemometer n
- An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind
- anesthetic adj
- Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation
- anew adv
- Once more
- angelic adj
- Saintly
- Anglophobia n
- Hatred or dread of England or of what is English
- Anglo-Saxon n
- The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India
- angular adj
- Sharp-cornered
- anhydrous adj
- Withered
- animadversion n
- The utterance of criticism or censure
- animadvert v
- To pass criticism or censure
- animalcule n
- An animal of microscopic smallness
- animate v
- To make alive
- animosity n
- Hatred
- annalist n
- Historian
- annals n
- A record of events in their chronological order, year by year
- annex v
- To add or affix at the end
- annihilate v
- To destroy absolutely
- annotate v
- To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon
- annual adj
- Occurring every year
- annuity n
- An annual allowance, payment, or income
- annunciation n
- Proclamation
- anode n
- The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like
- anonymous adj
- Of unknown authorship
- antagonism n
- Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons
- Antarctic adj
- Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it
- ante v
- In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt
- antecede v
- To precede
- antecedent n
- One who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality
- antechamber n
- A waiting room for those who seek audience
- antedate v
- To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one
- antediluvian adj
- Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah
- antemeridian adj
- Before noon
- antemundane adj
- Pertaining to time before the world's creation
- antenatal adj
- Occurring or existing before birth
- anterior adj
- Prior
- anteroom n
- A room situated before and opening into another, usually larger
- anthology n
- A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors
- anthracite n
- Hard coal
- anthropology n
- The science of man in general
- anthropomorphous adj
- Having or resembling human form
- antic n
- A grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action
- Antichrist n
- Any opponent or enemy of Christ, whether a person or a power
- anticlimax n
- A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said
- anticyclone n
- An atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward
- antidote n
- Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease, or the like
- antilogy n
- Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas
- antipathize v
- To show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike
- antiphon n
- A response or alteration of responses, generally musical
- antiphony n
- An anthem or other composition sung responsively
- antipodes n
- A place or region on the opposite side of the earth
- antiquary n
- One who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc
- antiquate v
- To make old or out of date
- antique adj
- Pertaining to ancient times
- antiseptic n
- Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms
- antislavery adj
- Opposed to human slavery
- antispasmodic adj
- Tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections
- antistrophe n
- The inversion of terms in successive classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of home"
- antitoxin n
- A substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms
- antonym n
- A word directly opposed to another in meaning
- anxious adj
- Distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter
- apathy n
- Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling
- aperture n
- Hole
- apex n
- The highest point, as of a mountain
- aphorism n
- Proverb
- apiary n
- A place where bees are kept
- apogee n
- The climax
- apology n
- A disclaimer of intentional error or offense
- apostasy n
- A total departure from one's faith or religion
- apostate adj
- False
- apostle n
- Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority
- apothecary n
- One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions
- apotheosis n
- Deification
- appall v
- To fill with dismay or horror
- apparent adj
- Easily understood
- apparition n
- Ghost
- appease v
- To soothe by quieting anger or indignation
- appellate adj
- Capable of being appealed to
- appellation n
- The name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called
- append v
- To add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary
- appertain v
- To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation
- apposite adj
- Appropriate
- apposition n
- The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact
- appraise v
- To estimate the money value of
- appreciable adj
- Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect
- apprehend v
- To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law
- apprehensible adj
- Capable of being conceived
- approbation n
- Sanction
- appropriate adj
- Suitable for the purpose and circumstances
- aqueduct n
- A water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance
- aqueous adj
- Of, pertaining to, or containing water
- arbiter n
- One chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters
- arbitrary adj
- Fixed or done capriciously
- arbitrate v
- To act or give judgment as umpire
- arbor n
- A tree
- arboreal adj
- Of or pertaining to a tree or trees
- arborescent adj
- Having the nature of a tree
- arboretum n
- A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs
- arboriculture n
- The cultivation of trees or shrubs
- arcade n
- A vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops, etc
- archaic adj
- Antiquated
- archaism n
- Obsolescence
- archangel n
- An angel of high rank
- archbishop n
- The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church
- archdeacon n
- A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese
- archaeology n
- The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man
- archetype n
- A prototype
- archipelago n
- Any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves
- ardent adj
- Burning with passion
- ardor n
- Intensity of passion or affection
- arid adj
- Very dry
- aristocracy n
- A hereditary nobility
- aristocrat n
- A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility
- armada n
- A fleet of war-vessels
- armful n
- As much as can be held in the arm or arms
- armory n
- An arsenal
- aroma n
- An agreeable odor
- arraign v
- To call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not
- arrange v
- To put in definite or proper order
- arrangement n
- The act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order
- arrant adj
- Notoriously bad
- arrear n
- Something overdue and unpaid
- arrival n
- A coming to stopping-place or destination
- arrogant adj
- Unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc
- arrogate v
- To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds
- Artesian well n
- A very deep bored well water rises due to underground pressure
- artful adj
- Characterized by craft or cunning
- Arthurian adj
- Pertaining to King Arthur, the real or legendary hero of British poetic story
- artifice n
- Trickery
- artless adj
- Ingenuous
- ascendant adj
- Dominant
- ascension n
- The act of rising
- ascent n
- A rising, soaring, or climbing
- ascetic adj
- Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion
- ascribe v
- To assign as a quality or attribute
- asexual adj
- Having no distinct sexual organs
- ashen adj
- Pale
- askance adv
- With a side or indirect glance or meaning
- asperity n
- Harshness or roughness of temper
- aspirant n
- One who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place
- aspiration n
- An earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach
- aspire v
- To have an earnest desire, wish, or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained
- assailant n
- One who attacks
- assassin n
- One who kills, or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly
- assassinate v
- To kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person
- assassination n
- Murderer, as by secret assault or treachery
- assay n
- The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore
- assent v
- To express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion
- assess v
- To determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid)
- assessor n
- An officer whose duty it is to assess taxes
- assets n
- Pl Property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts
- assiduous adj
- Diligent
- assignee n
- One who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests
- assimilate v
- To adapt
- assonance n
- Resemblance or correspondence in sound
- assonant adj
- Having resemblance of sound
- assonate v
- To accord in sound, especially vowel sound
- assuage v
- To cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease
- astringent adj
- Harsh in disposition or character
- astute adj
- Keen in discernment
- atheism n
- The denial of the existence of God
- athirst adj
- Wanting water
- athwart adv
- From side to side
- atomizer n
- An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc
- atone v
- To make amends for
- atonement n
- Amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury
- atrocious adj
- Outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel
- atrocity n
- Great cruelty or reckless wickedness
- attache n
- A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy
- attest v
- To certify as accurate, genuine, or true
- attorney-general n
- The chief law-officer of a government
- auburn adj
- Reddish-brown, said usually of the hair
- audacious adj
- Fearless
- audible adj
- Loud enough to be heard
- audition n
- The act or sensation of hearing
- auditory adj
- Of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing
- augment v
- To make bigger
- augur v
- To predict
- Augustinian adj
- Pertaining to St Augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him
- aura n
- Pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
- aural adj
- Of or pertaining to the ear
- auricle n
- One of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins
- auricular adj
- Of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing
- auriferous adj
- Containing gold
- aurora n
- A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere
- auspice n
- favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance
- austere adj
- Severely simple; unadorned
- autarchy n
- Unrestricted power
- authentic adj
- Of undisputed origin
- authenticity n
- The state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed
- autobiography n
- The story of one's life written by himself
- autocracy n
- Absolute government
- autocrat n
- Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence
- automaton n
- Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical
- autonomous adj
- Self-governing
- autonomy n
- Self-government
- autopsy n
- The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death
- autumnal adj
- Of or pertaining to autumn
- auxiliary n
- One who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory
- avalanche n
- The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock
- avarice n
- Passion for getting and keeping riches
- aver v
- To assert as a fact
- averse adj
- Reluctant
- aversion n
- A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing
- avert v
- To turn away or aside
- aviary n
- A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept
- avidity n
- Greediness
- avocation n
- Diversion
- avow v
- To declare openly
- awaken v
- To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like
- awry adv
- & adj Out of the proper form, direction, or position
- aye adv
- An expression of assent
- azalea n
- A flowering shrub
- azure n
- The color of the sky
- Baconian adj
- Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy
- bacterium n
- A microbe
- badger v
- To pester
- baffle v
- To foil or frustrate
- bailiff n
- An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment
- baize n
- A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc
- bale n
- A large package prepared for transportation or storage
- baleful adj
- Malignant
- ballad n
- Any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form
- balsam n
- A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing
- banal adj
- Commonplace
- barcarole n
- A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers
- barograph n
- An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure
- barometer n
- An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface
- barring prep
- Apart from
- baritone adj
- Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor
- bask v
- To make warm by genial heat
- bass adj
- Low in tone or compass
- baste v
- To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking
- baton n
- An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege
- battalion n
- A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment
- batten n
- A narrow strip of wood
- batter n
- A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery
- bauble n
- A trinket
- bawl v
- To proclaim by outcry