First 20 Words Hon. Lit
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- affinity
- n. a liking or an attraction for something or someone
- anonymity
- n. condition of being unknown, namelessness
- alleviate
- (v) to ease a pain or a burden
- ambivalence
- n. the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes.
- advocate
- n. One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.
- aberration
- n. deviation from what is accepted as normal or right
- ameliorate
- [v] to make better, to improve
- acclaim
- (n.) high praise (Greg's excellent poem won the acclaim of his friends.)
- ambiguous
- adj. unclear or doubtful in meaning. (His ambiguous instructions misled us; we did not know which road to take. ambiguity, n.)
- aloof
- adj. ~ cool and remote in character; unconcerned
- alienate
- (v): to turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey
- altruistic
- adj. unselfishly generous; concerned for others
- abstract
- adj. existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or practical existence
- animosity
- (n) bitter hostility or hatred
- analogous
- (adj) similar or comparable in some respects
- admonish
- v. To warn of a fault.
- abstinence
- n. the act of withdrawing
- acquiesce
- (v.) to agree without protesting
- aggrandizement
- n. an increase in power or wealth
- aesthetic
- adj. concerned with beauty and the appreciation of beauty