Random House WODs A
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Terms
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- ad hoc
- concerned or dealing with a specific purpose or end
- albatross
- a seemingly inescapable moral or emotional burden, as of guilt' or 'anything burdensome that impedes action or progress (figurative)
- anthropocentric
- regarding human beings as the center of the universe
- apheresis
- the loss or omission of one or more letters or sounds at the beginning of a word
- apposite
- suitable and relevant to a situation or subject; apt; pertinent
- abacinate
- to blind (a person) by placing red-hot pokers, or metal basins, in front of the eyes
- aglet
- the plastic or metal tip of a shoelace
- feazings
- the unraveled part at the end of a cord
- akimbo
- with hand on hip and elbow bent outward
- amaranth
- an unfading flower
- ambrosia
- something especially delicious to taste or smell
- augury
- the art or practice of divination from signs or omens