VOCAB SET A
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- approbation
- 1. An expression of warm approval; praise. 2. Official approval.
- alleviate
- To make (pain, for example) more bearable: a drug that alleviates cold symptoms.
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arboreal
- 1. Relating to or resembling a tree. 2. Living in trees; arboreous: arboreal apes.
- aphasia
- Partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, resulting from damage to the brain caused by injury or disease.
- askew
- To one side; awry: rugs lying askew.
- assonance
- Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words
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altruism
- Unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness.
- atrophy
- A wasting or decrease in size of a bodily organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use
- arbitrary
- 1. Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle: stopped at the first motel we passed, an arbitrary choice; arbitrary division of the group into halves.
- ascend
- To go or move upward; rise.
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ameliorate
- To make or become better; improve.
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amenable
- Responsive to advice, authority, or suggestion; tractable;obedient.