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- abdicate
- To give up formally, as an office, duty, power, or claim
- abet
- To encourage or assist, especially in wrongdoing.
- abhor
- To regard with horror and loathing, to hate intensely.
- abject
- Wretched, miserable, degrading, humiliating
- absolve
- to clear of guilt or blame
- abstain
- to refrain completely and voluntarily
- academic
- Pertaining to a college or other institution of learning, scholarly.
- accede
- to yield to, to agree to.
- acclimate
- to get used to (usually an environment or situation)
- 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
- to close formally
- adverse
- hostile in purpose or effect, unfavorable
- advocate
- to speak or argue in favor of, to five active public support to.
- aesthetic
- Pertaining to a sense of beauty, artistic.
- affable
- courteous and agreeable in manner, easy to talk to or approach.
- affectation
- a pretentious display or manners or sentiments that are not genuine, a peculiar habit of dress or behaviors that had been adopted to impress others.
- affluent
- prosperous, wealthy
- agenda
- a list or program of tins to be done or acted upon.
- aggregate
- the total amount or sum total of the individual parts.
- agile
- swift and light in action, movement, or thought.
- alienate
- to cause hostility or indifference where love, friendliness, or interest formerly existed.
- allege
- to claim that something is true but without offering any proof.
- allude
- to refer to indirectly
- ambience
- the surrounding or pervading atmosphere, the tone and spirit on an environment
- ambivalent
- 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.
- amnesty
- an official pardon granted to offenders against the government, especially for political offenses
- anachronism
- the misplacing of an object or vent in a period to which it cannot possibly belong, anything out of its proper time frame.
- anarchy
- absence of governmental authority, general political and social disorder.
- anathema
- a curse or strong denunciation
- anecdote
- a brief account of some interesting or amusing incident, especially one containing biographical or historical details.
- anomaly
- a deviation from what is normal or expected
- apathy
- lack of feeling, emotion, or interest
- appall
- to fill with intense horror, fear, or dismay
- apprehend
- to arrest or take into custody
- arbitrary
- subject to or determined by one's judgement, random.
- arbitrate
- to act as an impartial judge in a dispute, to settle
- array
- to line up, to dress up
- articualte
- to pronounce distinctly, to express well in words.
- askew
- out of line or position, turned to one side.
- assimliate
- to absorb fully or make one's own, to adopt as one's own
- astutue
- keen of mind and judgement, especially in practical matters, cunning.
- asylum
- an institution that shelters and cares for mentally unbalanced, aged, or homeless persons.
- atone
- to make up for or repent
- atrocity
- a savagely cruel, brutal or inhuman deed, a monstrosity.
- atrophy
- a failure to develop normally, a progressive wasting away or decline.
- attrition
- a gradual wearing down or weakening of resistance resulting from constant friction, pressure, or harassment.
- augment
- to make greater, to become greater
- augur
- someone who can forecast the future by spotting various signs or indications of what is to come
- austere
- rigidly severe, severely simple or bare
- authentic
- gunuine, trustworth.
- avarice
- an excessive desire to acquire and possess wealth, a combination of greed and stinginess.
- avid
- extremely eager, anxious, or enthusastic.
- badger
- to tease, to annoy with a constant string of petty torments
- baffle
- to puzzle completely
- banal
- made stale by constant use or repetition
- belligerent
- warring, actually engaged in a war, warlike or hostile.
- benign
- gentle and kindly
- bicker
- to engage in petty quarreling
- bizarre
- weird or fantastic
- bland
- mild or gentle
- bleak
- desolate, windswept, and bare
- blight
- to check or destroy the growth of.
- blithe
- merry and carefree
- boisterous
- noisy and rowdy
- bombastic
- pompous or inflated in language
- boorish
- rude or unrefined
- brash
- overly bold, hasty, and thoughtless
- bravado
- a boastful or swaggering show of false braver, false courage
- brusque
- overly short or abrupt.
- bungle
- to mismanage or make a mess of.
- bureaucracy
- a complicated system of administrative agencies and officials, the officials themselves.
- buttress
- a support or reinforcement
- cajole
- to persuade or obtain by flattery or deceit
- callous
- unfeeling or insensitive
- calumny
- a false statement deliberately made up to inure a person
- candid
- fair and impartial
- cantankerous
- foul tempered an quarrelsome
- captious
- quick to find petty faults or raise trifilng objections, overly demanding or fussy.
- catholic
- broad and widely inclusive.